phild
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| Best DVD for video and theater sound for 2000 This is much cheaper than you're looking for, but the Sony 9000ES DVD (CD/SACD) are supposed to be amazing DVD players and they're selling for $800-$900 new. That may be an option if you're not concerned with their redbook or SACD performance. I d... | |
| Have you heard the Aria amps by Mike Elliott? Hi Tweety,I've never heard the Aria amps, but I had Mike Elliott rebuild an old Counterpoint SA-100 about a year ago. I chose the Premium Gold rebuild, which involved a complete rebuild of the insides...it's an all-new design, all new top notch pa... | |
| EVS Millenium Owners One more thing...I just did a search for the Cary 303 in the classifieds and noticed that one of them features HDCD decoding. I don't know if they all do, or not, but the EVS DACs do not offer that feature. That's something to think about if HDCD ... | |
| EVS Millenium Owners I've not at all familiar with the the Cary 303 player, so I can't help you there. The EVS DACs are very nice and, like I said, you can always pick a transport and forget about it. It will sound good. As far as that goes, I'm sure the Cary will too... | |
| Best system for the budding audiophile? There is a pair of Merlin VSM III that just listed for $1800. I don't believe they're upgradeable to the VSM-M, but they're still great speakers for the price. Very detailed, yet musical...large soundstage, excellent highs, etc. They're technicall... | |
| Wilco- Wow Hey Anth0456...their old label, Reprise, was a division of Warner Brothers and so is their new label, Nonesuch. Now I bet you're REALLY wondering what they were smoking. The band purchased their masters from Reprise for $50,000 (maybe $30,000?? I ... | |
| EVS Millenium Owners I am using an old Studer A727 CDP (the heavy duty pro version of the Revox B226) as a transport and it sounds great. I believe it dates back to the late 80s, but I think it sounds better than my Pioneer DV-05(DVD) and my old Denon DCD2650. I also ... | |
| PayPal may be in trouble...... And Perfectimage...I'm sure the main reason that small dealers use PayPal is the huge difference in fees. There is a huge difference, isn't there?? What percentage of sales do the credit card companies charge small volume dealers? Isn't it much mo... | |
| Import DVDs versus USA That may be true, but are those bootleg copies properly mastered DVDs made from nice film prints, or are they DVD copies of a videotaped movie screen?? I'm just asking because I don't know. I know that many of the VHS bootlegs were often made that... | |
| Phono Input You'd have to buy a seperate phono preamp and plug your turntable into that (price range from $100/$200 up to thousands and thousands). The phono preamp will output a line-level signal which you can plug into any of the tape, CD, video, VCR, AUX, ... | |
| Merlin owners The above is correct...the BAM isn't digital. I have tried my VSM-Ms without the BAM (Battery BAM). THey're great either way, but I really prefer them with the BAM (although I don't have a SET amp wattage/efficiency issue like the above post menti... | |
| Mosfet amps A true compromise betw. tubes and SS? Yeah...what they all said. I ended up buying a used Counterpoint SA-100 amp (a hybrid tube/mosfet design). It sounded pretty nice in stock form, but those particular mosfets had a history of failure. I had mine completely rebuilt by the original d... | |
| Import DVDs versus USA Be careful with foreign titles...they could very well be bootlegs (very popular in Asia) and/or there's a good chance that they are not coded for US retail. I think we're considered to be "Region 1" and I don't think non-Region 1 coded DVDs will p... | |
| New Digital Format Copy Protection on Digital Out. Hey Twl...that's true and I'm sure it will happen eventually (unless Sony and others decide that they can help control digital piracy by eliminating the output). Most modern home theater receivers or processors have internal DACs and many are made... | |
| Why didn't the DAD format take off?? Hey Chazmo...I have that redbook CD and it's quite good (both the performance and recording). |