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| SACD/CD Question 1. As Metralla says, there's no reason to buy hybrid SACDs for the CD layer if you are not going to get an SACD player in the near future.2. The differences between those various releases on the same label is not the medium but the mastering.Kal | |
| Sex and the balanced interconnect. Yup. In fact, putting aside potential advantages in regard to noise pickup, the security of the connections and connectors makes all the fancy RCA permutations seem like toys.Kal | |
| Sex and the balanced interconnect. You asked: "I wonder why this is the standard. RCA and phone plug interconnects are all male-to-male."The answer is that it makes it nearly impossible (without significant effort) to connect an output to an output or an input to an input. With RCA... | |
| ASC sub trap There has been discussion of it on www.avsforum.comKal | |
| Sony SCD-XA9000. Comments, Opinions? The Sony won't play DVDs of any kind.Kal | |
| Sex and the balanced interconnect. I find this difficult to understand. The gender of XLR connectors is defined by whether they are outputs or inputs. You might check the crossover to see if you are looking at the right ones. | |
| Farao Classics SACD: Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht I doubt that the Decca/Solti Ring is in MCH although it was certainly multimiked, so it depends on what's still in the vault. | |
| Farao Classics SACD: Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht I agree with most of your statements about the Mehta Schoenberg disc and the Die Walkure, while not a performance for the ages, is pretty good.Kal | |
| DVI to component input adapters ? Probably not easily or cheaply. DVI is digital. Component is analog.Kal | |
| DAC fed by DirectTV optical out for music & dolby 1. Yes, I use an external DAX with my cable and DMX service. Really helps.2. Depends on the DAC, of course. The Levinson 360S does.3. Guess you have to look at DACs with DigOut.Kal | |
| HE2004 in San Francisco this year Took a while to get to Audiogon but, yes, it has been cancelled. See:http://www.stereophile.com/news/102004heew/ | |
| Why so much???? I probably have "too much" by your standards. However, I like being able to grab what I want to hear off the shelf whenever I want it and I like to hear alternative performances of many pieces. So, the collection grows continuously.Kal | |
| Which speakers? Side surrounds. Rear surrounds are for 7.1, not the 5.1 on SACDs.Kal | |
| DVI output of a cheap DVD player always same ?? I am not offering an opinion but I wonder if the significance of the transport for audio vs. video would not be differently weighted at HDTV forums and at High-End audio forums. ;-)Kal | |
| Recommendations discs for SACD/DVD-A trial If you need some more test discs (on loan only), let me know. I am in CT on weekends.Kal |