radknee
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| SACD - Dying already? >> The average consumer wants convenience and my best guess is that digital satellite radio, MP3's, iPods, and the like are the mass-market future. Apple's iTunes uses AAC audio, which blows away MP3s. I've compared identical tunes from orig... | |
| SACD - Dying already? >> Both CD replay and the quality of remastered Redbook discs have increased beyond recognition.The reason they have is because recording studios are using hi-rez recording methods, like DSD, 192/24 PCM.Whether SACD, DVD-A survives or not th... | |
| Philips 963SA normal characteristics? I'd give it at least 200 hours before deciding. Mine sounded flat for the 1st 100. Then it opened up a bit but the bass got boomy. Around 200 hours the bass settled down.The best thing this player has going for it stock is: detail, imaging, midran... | |
| Used tube dac under 1000.00 -Please advise. Audio Note DAC 1.2 (retail $1500) or 1.1 (retail $1000). | |
| Philips SACD 1000 or 962. Here's a post of mine copied from AA:------------------------------------------------------------------------I auditioned the 962 for a week. It's a fairly balanced player across the frequency spectrum. Smooth sounding, and on the warm side of neu... | |
| Sony DVP 9000 Re: CD-RsGuess it's dependent on particular machines; I've had no problem playing CD-Rs on my 9000. | |
| Sony DVP 9000 to finish my post....Where the 9000ES excels is in detail (especially bass to midrange detail) and dynamics -- the bass is really punchy. It also has decent soundstage and imaging.Good recordings can really be hypnotic with it; bad recordings can ... | |
| Sony DVP 9000 For a perfect description of the Sony 9000ES as Redbook and SACD, see Neil Gader's review in issue# 134 of The Absolute Sound, Feb-Mar 2002. An excerpt:"As a stand-alone CD player, the DVP-S9000es is competent and balanced, an a par with players u... | |
| Anyone own the new Cambridge Audio dvdp? Just recently did auditions of several DVD players: Onkyo S-555 Marantz 4300 Cambridge D300Out of all these I liked the Onkyo the best ($200 @ Bose stores). Both the Marantz and the Cambridge had Glossy-looking over-saturated video. Onkyo was shar... | |
| Sony DVP-S7000 - best transport under 300? >>I had a Rega Planet prior to the current Roksan Caspian and both of these units sounded much more like analog than the Sony ever did. Are you saying the Planet sounds better as a Transport, or sounds better as a CD player than the Sony?If ... |