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| Holy Moly Blu-Ray Disc Players below $300 Interesting point there Pzuckerman..........is the PS3 also an upsampling player with respect to std DVD? If by "upsampling" you mean can the PS3 upscale a standard DVD image to 720p or 1080i or 1080p, the answer is yes. When originally introduced... | |
| Holy Moly Blu-Ray Disc Players below $300 If you're looking at BluRay, the way to go is the PS3, even if, like me, you have no interest in games. The brain of the PS3 is much more powerful than any standalone machine, be it HD DVD or Blu Ray, and the architecture permits Sony to upgrade t... | |
| 5.1 newbie - rear speaker position questions When Sony and Phillips developed SACD, they included a small pamphlet with their discs which recommended that main speakers be located 30 degrees each from the forward position of the listener, the center channel straight ahead, and the rear chann... | |
| My favorite Steely Dan song has to be... Josie! | |
| Floor Standing or In Wall speakers The average consumer audiophile lacks the sophistication and money to design a room (and thus the in-wall speaker enclosures and their placement) to achieve what he could by experimenting both with his choice of free-standing speakers and their pl... | |
| Why aren't my subs turning on? The LFE channel is not the same as bass. The LFE channel is used by DVDs for low frequency effects such as explosions, earthquakes, and airplane flyovers. Some preamps allow you to direct bass output to the LFE channel, so that all bass is redirec... | |
| Why sound is not balanced? To determine if the preamp is the problem, switch the left input for the right and vice versa. To determine if the amp is the problem, switch the right leads for the left leads. To determine if the speakers are the problem, switch them, placing th... | |
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! Ear buds. I've listened to dozens of high-end systems and logged in thousands of hours on my own ever-evolving system. If you really want to hear what's on a CD, pop one into your computer or portable player and listen through ear buds. Their tiny... |