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| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Cdc - I'm not sure why you're having such a problem finding equipment to match your musical tastes. My gear has no problem reproducing any kind of music I decide I want to hear.Perhaps your gear is too "colored" or artificial-sounding. | |
| Amps Power Conditioners and Lightning, what to do? I have a whole-house surge protector installed. It made no noticeable sonic difference, and my system is VERY revealing of subtle changes.I highly recommend the whole-house surge protector as your first line of defense if you live in a surge-prone... | |
| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? Jose21 - I auditioned a DV-50 in my system to see if it would be a suitable candidate to replace my player-DAC combination (it wasn't). Anyway, I used it as a transport into my DAC, and it worked quite well for that purpose; however, it was not qu... | |
| Sony SCD-XA9000. Comments, Opinions? The Krell SACD Standard was discontinued because Philips discontinued the transport. | |
| Breaking in power cords In the US, power cords are tested and certified ("rated") by Underwriters Laboratories.Fatparrot, I bet you won't find a single audiophile power cord that has been certified by UL.If the cord is properly constructed, there's no reason why it would... | |
| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? Avguru - seems that you'd already decided your player is the "best." So why was it that you wanted others' opinions again?Just curious. | |
| Sony SCD-XA9000. Comments, Opinions? One thing to consider apart from the sound quality of the unit:Sony Service/Support treats the buyer of a $3000 flagship SACD player no differently than the buyer of a $90 DVD player. | |
| After all this: CRT HD Television it 'tis.... You found the best picture quality already. CRT is still the best. Digital televisions have a long way to go. | |
| SACD on its way out? You can use recordable DVDs and lay down stereo LPCM tracks up to 24/96k, which is certainly "high-rez." One potential problem with this is that most consumer-grade DVD-V players won't process 24/96k, so the player does a down-rez to 24/48k. Still... | |
| SACD on its way out? Hi Musicslug - a couple of corrections:First of all, a high-resolution master is not "dithered" down to 16/44.1 Redbook, it is "decimated." Dither in the digital context is the process of deliberately adding noise to the digital signal. Decimation... | |
| House Amperage vs Stereo Amperage One thing to keep in mind:A 15A branch circuit is designed to provide somewhere in the neighborhood* of 15A under steady load. Circuit breakers are thermal devices - if the load on the circuit increases above the max capability for a significant l... | |
| Vandersteen 5a. How refined a product are they No need to borrow a copy of the Audio Perfectionist to read Hardesty's article. It's posted on the Vandersteen website. I guess Richard Vandersteen liked it too. | |
| Vandersteen Sub & Adcom Processor Debugging The V2W is line-level input only. | |
| Vandersteen Sub & Adcom Processor Debugging Yes, it is safe to hook the sub up to a front input. That's what I would do if I were you. | |
| Transparent users... Question The gear you have works best in balanced mode. I was faced with your choice, and after audition preferred the Ultra MM Balanced over the Reference single-ended. I also have some Reference Balanced in my system, and the sonic difference between Ult... |