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| What's the best Blu-Ray player for 300.-350. MyrajOn paper sony and reviewers more or less state that, but no the S550 has a substantially heavier structured chassis and transport IN the box of the S550 you get the USB card included And even though the S350 is listed as 2.0 profile capable... | |
| What's the best Blu-Ray player for 300.-350. As Kennyt above, I have also done direct shootouts in home and found the S350 best video and functions, speed of loading, price, blu ray capability and SDVD capability the absolute best, and S550 has all of the above but if your looking for more a... | |
| THRESHOLD S300 There is some kinda version that is what they call Optical Bias... It basically was a better way to keep the amp within certain power range (keep it from floating) when your outlet power from the house would fluxuate and kinda make the amp not sou... | |
| How will XLR cables vs RCA effect a phono pre Atmasphere"If the preamp is not balanced then IMO there is only marginal advantage to using a balanced cable. "I agree.. SO the big question is.... Are we talking about a BALANCED design so to speak which seems to me to be the same on the end of t... | |
| How will XLR cables vs RCA effect a phono pre Okay maybe this is just silly or I am!... First off XLR from the "CARTRIDGE TO PHONO amp" Is almost pointless... All cartrides have 4 pins, and they are naturally already considered a Stereo left right a balanced source..RCA jacks from the Cartrid... | |
| What footer best under cd player I have found soft shoe type solutions on Digital sources, DACs, and Transports or all in one players have benefited along with putting a sand bag on top of the transport unit, basically absorbing all airborne and mechanical vibrations from the uni... | |
| Tube Phono-Stage question. Well was going to chime in earlier but figured why, since you said you would rather NOT pay 500 for something, however now you are saying you have 500 to play with . Anyway you want the best Tube based unit at 500 or 2000 on the market right now w... | |
| Zu Druids - Two years after Prices went up, so they kinda went a little out of the lines on the graph I feel.. They are a great speaker, but now are replaced almost a decade later by new models. If you want a good single driver speaker that does what a good single driver doe... | |
| How to convert Class A/B amp to pure Class A "Any advice out there?? "I think you answered your own question, he would be able to tell you! I doubt he witholds much info just because you don't send it to him, he would know all the pitfalls you can encounter, and if this can be a simple enoug... | |
| How to convert Class A/B amp to pure Class A There is a guy named John "something" I believe which is in california, or was a couple years back that was a threshold designer, and he would convert all these amps to pure class A for a small fee.. He would replace some power supply stuff like r... | |
| Understanding Mcintosh Meters? "Blue Meter" with glass front, nice looking, but totally worthless!! Don't worry about the meters they will never tell a story on your speaker or systems capability, if it sounds good go with it, you will know just like everybody else having amps ... | |
| OPamps still inferior to discrete circuits? KijankiExactly :-) The burr browns get good reps on headphones, they do produce a certain ambience thats nice.. But if your looking for a raw out rock power with detailed sound they are a bit laid back in many designs.. Again going discrete in fac... | |
| OPamps still inferior to discrete circuits? OPA627 is a burr brown sound.. Exactly in its name a color "Brown" sound... Just kidding but its DARKer than other opamps... might be the ticket for a cheaper way to make a system that is over excited settle down, but with that goes a lot of stron... | |
| Best Blu Ray video and for 2 channel transport? UPDATE on S550 from sony So I replaced the new winner S350 with the S550, Differences subtle to some, but big enough for the true bargain and sound hunter. And it crushes the Panasonic .. Close to the oppos, but still would go with this blu ray p... | |
| Best Blu Ray video and for 2 channel transport? Hmm interesting, well right there is part of the issue, you don't have 1080p thats where all the machines OPPO, Sony, and Panny will excell so at this point I can see where your limitation is on that regard.. Beyond that yeah not sure where their... |