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Room matters
These recent posts raise an interesting question: To those with experience measuring in-room FR, where do you find the most significant anomalies? I have experience with 4 rooms, and in all cases the issues below about 150hz to 175hz just dwarfed ... 
Soliloquy 5.3 Driver Replacements
Try this:http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1144825&highlight=soliloquy 
Oppo BDP-83 optical out for 2ch stereo from blu-r?
How can you run analog outs to a a DAC? DACs accept digital inputs.Kal 
Soliloquy 5.3 Driver Replacements
Google this. I saw a post on some audio forum (cannot recall which) from a guy who was selling off drivers and cabinets from the original Soliloquy factory. Within the past week.Kal 
Oppo BDP-83 optical out for 2ch stereo from blu-r?
Again, let me point out that for a Blu-Ray disc, the user must select the 2 channel sound track if that option exists. If not, the 2 channel output, analog or digital, will be a mixdown of variable quality.Kal 
Room matters
"My choice of 100 Hz may be a bit low and as you correctly point out - a lot of problems occur between 100 Hz and 300 Hz and, I might add, even further on up as far as about 600 Hz, as the sound goes from omnidirectional (bass) to directional (Low... 
Room matters
Shadorne wrote: ".......... in theory there is no "purity" reason that DRC cannot be used throughout, however, from an acoustics perspective the ultra LF frequencies (below about 100 Hz) is the only area where DRC can effectively correct specific ... 
how to side-grade from B&W 805's?
Try auditioning the PSB Imagine T.Kal 
Room matters
Don't let the prices scare you but do keep an open mind. Times (and technology) do change.Kal 
Blu-ray music discs
I am talking about Blu-Ray discs, not Blu-Spec CDs which, fundamentally, are just CDs.Kal 
Oppo BDP-83 optical out for 2ch stereo from blu-r?
Neither connection is optimum for this since you will be getting a mixdown either way UNLESS you select a stereo track from the BRD.Kal 
Blu-ray music discs
They are, indeed, also two channel but most of the content is multichannel.Kal 
Room matters
That's not exactly what I was suggesting but an Anthem D2v or Denon AVP-A1HDCI or Meridian 861 (all of which have analog outputs much superior to the Integra) might be competitive with digital sources and not encumber any "purism" issues when usin... 
Room matters
Such notions of "purity" are grounded in analog considerations. With today's digital media, a more coherent reconsideration of the principle is necessary. ;-)Kal 
Biamp with a multichannel amp?
Timrhu, I would agree. ;-)Kal