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| Which Classical Recording is Best? The recent LSO Beethoven series with Haitink is quite fine but my LSO favorites do not include Beethoven, Mozart and certainly not Bach.Kal | |
| Need recommendation for new CD/SACD player The Oppo outputs 88.2kHz PCM from SACDs and, while it has a digital volume control and channel trims, you can zero them all in the setup menu.Kal | |
| Best SSP - Upgrade from Integra DTC 9.8 Of course, it is hard to advise since Guybguy never told us what, exactly, he lacks and what he is looking for in sound and/or video.Kal | |
| Is it worth buying an SACD player? Go to www.sa-cd.net for a more comprehensive listing.Kal | |
| Is it worth buying an SACD player? Many of the early Sony SACDs were single-layer, that is, SACD only. Kal | |
| Is it worth buying an SACD player? OK. It can play SACD via the analog outputs and via HDMI. It is never available via coax or toslink.I suspect that the LPCM setting is irrelevant to SACD since (1) DSD is not PCM and (2) none of those values represent the sample rate for DSD. (DSD... | |
| Best SSP - Upgrade from Integra DTC 9.8 Iplaynaked:Apparently Audyssey is saying that other smaller hi-end companies like Krell, Mcintosh, Theta, Anthem, etc, aren't in a financial position to do the integration with the MultEQ! - er, something like that. At least that's what the impres... | |
| Is it worth buying an SACD player? Unsound:I think it interesting that Sony has yet to offer a Blue Ray player with SACD decoding. That makes me wonder about the future of SACD.Yes but they introduced two new SACD players at CEDIA.Pzuckerman:BTW, SACD and DVD A are generally access... | |
| Is it worth buying an SACD player? Buconero117 wrote:No. Wait until the SACD masters are issued on blu-ray.Depends on how patient or old you are. I don't see a comparable level of purely musical releases to happen for quite a few years.Kal | |
| Best SSP - Upgrade from Integra DTC 9.8 "Audyssey Dynamic EQ as well as Audyssey MultEQ"Sure. They are quite different.Kal | |
| Best SSP - Upgrade from Integra DTC 9.8 Many other prepros are picking up Audyssey, from Onkyo and Denon, Marantz, and NAD to Sim Audio and Wisdom. This is an incomplete listing: http://www.audyssey.com/products/index.htmlOTOH, some, like Anthem, incorporate very competent room EQs of t... | |
| Is it worth buying an SACD player? If your DVD player can play the SACD but (1) you cannot hear a difference between "regular CD" and SACD and (2) your player doesn't access the "higher end sampling," it is likely you are only hearing the RedBook (CD) layer of a hybrid SACD. Thus, ... | |
| Food: What does the typical audiophile eat? "On 08-28-08, Cdc wrote:Kal, the package says "made from scratch in NYC". Then they import them to New England. Guess you guys are missing out ;-)" Probably not, we usually keep the good stuff and only ship out the seconds. :-) Bagels have to be m... | |
| Babies and Speakers Too many complications to answer but I never had a problem when my kids were little. Of course, they were 2-3 rooms away and, I think, they adapted to it, too.I wouldn't worry about it now since you will simply do what you have to do.Kal | |
| Food: What does the typical audiophile eat? Ray's Bagel from NYC? What's that?Kal (in Manhattan) |