kr4
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| MULTI-CH SACD'S on 2CH SOUND STRANGE? I doubt it has anything to do with multichannel mastering since both French_fries and Stereo5 are listening on 2 channel players. Their machines should not ever access the multichannel tracks. | |
| Sony SCD-XA5400ES From the Sony document:"The audio boards of this SCD-XA5400ES employ glass epoxy four-layer boards. This makes the signal, ground, and power supply wiring ideal. Right and left circuits including balanced circuits are laid out quite symmetrically,... | |
| Any inexpensive ways to check acoustic response There is a simple solution: Room EQ Wizard (http://www.hometheatershack.com/roomeq/) and a RS sound level meter. The software is free and the RS meter is cheap. It will have some FR issues at the low end but is adequate. The next steps up are to:1... | |
| Using HDMI output on Sony 5400ES and OPPO BDP-95 Yes. The Oppo needs a monitor for setup but only for setup and not afterwards. | |
| Passive/line stage HT preamp? The most common choice for this is the Parasound P7. | |
| how do YOU stream? Oppo player streams all needed formats from my hard drives in another room via SMB/ethernet. No additional components in the main room. | |
| Volume affected by uneven lengths of spker cable?? Gregm wrote:the left side is 12ft and the right is 7 ft.................You'd be loading the amp differently on each channel, as mentioned, albeit slightly in real terms. It is a gross exaggeration to say "slightly" in this context. Inconsequentia... | |
| Chassis damping material Because cork lacks sufficient mass. ;-) | |
| Chassis damping material Dynamat. | |
| Will there be a NYC Hi-fi show this year? http://www.chestergroup.org/newyorkaudioshow | |
| SME Baseplate Question I have a possible solution. Back when I was messing with building arms, turntables and other phono stuff, I built a few pseudo-SME bases and I have 1-2 around.I have a nickel-finish one with the SME hole (too big for you) and I have a black one wi... | |
| DACs and audio formats 1. Some do. Some don't.2. Not likely unless you find a transport with USB or ethernet output (aside from some proprietary solutions).3. EMM, dCs, PCs and MACs.4. Possibly. This would be on a case-by-case basis since the future cannot be guaranteed... | |
| Accurate human voice reproduction To me, that sounds like an indictment of the Harbeth. | |
| Standalone Room Correction Component 03-28-13: Theo wrote:I have heard the McIntosh at RMAF and a local dealer and it seems to do a lot of things right. But my concern is that if it is digitally altering the music delivery based upon room correction, is it really altering the music f... | |
| Standalone Room Correction Component Trinnov is the only standalone I can think of but those features are built into the ADA and DataSat prepros. |