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| INTEGRA DHC-80.3 Surround Processor Classe SSP-800Meridian 861v6/HD621McIntosh MX-150Very different animals. | |
| world's best preamp closest to real sound stage The significant players in soundstage reproduction are the recordings, the speakers and the room acoustics. Preamps play a minor role if they are decent.Kal | |
| can this fact be accurate? Tomcy6 wrote: Kal, I can't understand why the high end magazines push vinyl and denigrate digital when this is the path to a slow death for the high end. Can you set me straight?There are two issues. One is that a large proportion of our readershi... | |
| INTEGRA DHC-80.3 Surround Processor What are the more advanced features in the 80.3 than the 80.2?"Kal | |
| can this fact be accurate? If this statement really is a fact (which I cannot confirm or deny), it is accurate. ;-)Kal | |
| INTEGRA DHC-80.3 Surround Processor What I have to say in general about the Integra 80.2 is that it is the standard-setter for (how shall I put this?) non-high-end processors. I have not used the 80.3 nor the Onkyo equivalents. All other general comments are in my columns about the ... | |
| INTEGRA DBS-30.2 VS. OPPO BDP-93 I fail to see what advantage, other than cosmetics, accrue from matching brands of player and prepro. | |
| Emotiva UMC-1, Onkyo TX-NR809, or Denon AVR3312CI The reason they are so cheap is that they are archaic. If you can tolerate the lack of up-to-date features, some of them are excellent. I wouldn't recommend that, though, and would prefer the Onkyo and Denon you mention over all the others.Kal | |
| Oppo 95 with external DAC The packaging/unpackaging of the signals for transmission via S/PDIF or HDMI adds jitter not present with on-chassis data transmission.Kal | |
| Oppo 95 with external DAC Probably a toss-up. If you choose to use a very high-end external DAC, you also encumber the jitter imposed by the digital interface.Kal | |
| Advice for Pre Amp/Processor The M15HD lacks XLR outputs. | |
| Advice for Pre Amp/Processor Plenty fill your requirements except that I do not know what you mean by "balanced speaker outputs." Can we assume you mean balanced preamp output? Onkyo PR-SC5508, 5509Integra DHC-80.2, 80.3Marantz AV7005Anthem AVM-50v | |
| oppo 95 or marantz sa8004? Umm. Stereo/Mch? Analog/digital output? | |
| oppo 95 or marantz sa8004? Can you tell how and with what you are going to use it? | |
| Best Record You Have Ever heard Hard to remember. ;-) |