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| Buy Decision Audioquest vs. Audience Audience makes good stuff and that model uses the OCC copper (Ohno), but it's normally all stranded wiring from this company. The Rocket 44 is combination of PSC and PSC+ copper (Audioquest's Perfect Surface Copper, which is very close to OCC any... | |
| AVR with Room Correction for Zone B / Output 2? You can always get a mini-DSP unit for the zone 2. | |
| New Parasound Halo JC1+ monoblocks just released!!! Yikes, almost twice the retail. But it looks like they pulled out all the stops on this new design. | |
| Krell Evolution 400e’s or 600e’s in Black for Sale? You will probably have a hard time finding this as black models are extremely rare! It's easier to find silver models of these amplifiers. Even so, you might be waiting a year or more for one of these silver models to come up for sale. I think ... | |
| Which HDMI for audio The Neotech page says it supports ethernet channel, but I don't know about the Purist. You can email them. They are very responsive. | |
| Which HDMI for audio for comparison:Nordost Heimdall 2 - 25awg solid-core silver plated 99.9999 OFC with micro-monofilament wrapping (provides more air around conductor and reduces dialectric absorption of the insulation).Wire World 5-2 - 24awg solid-core silver-clad ... | |
| Which HDMI for audio Oh, if you want to keep the cable pure copper, you can try the Purist Audio Design. Uses 24awg solid-core long grain copper conductors. Very full and natural sound, but it is slightly warm and does not have the attack/immediacy of the silver-pla... | |
| Which HDMI for audio In the last year, I ran through a whole bunch of HDMI cable tests for bluray. My tests covered both audio and video quality. The Nordost HDMI came out to be the absolute best (I did not have the budget for Valhalla). Only the older Wire World S... | |
| Which HDMI for audio Nordost Heimdall 2 HDMI. But make sure to get 2 meter (1 meter will not be as good). Or, if you have really deep pockets, Nordost Valhalla HDMI. | |
| Video question: 55" TV recommendations (details within)? I have recently been out to different stores just to check out what's available now today. I will say that I did not like any of the new flat panel televisions. The new LED or OLED technology just does not look at natural as plasma or older LCD.... | |
| External Linear Power Supplies I caution anyone who is intending to install an external linear power supply to a laptop. The laptop power supplies are not straight forward. They don't always send current and I believe they have battery charging circuitry built in. Also, some... | |
| Short USB cables choices wow, analog going down a digital cable. It's magic! | |
| Oppo 95: Low Output via Stereo RCAs I have noticed that bluray through HDMI is much quieter than normal compressed DD/DTS through s/pdif. I have to turn up the volume higher to get the same level. You may just have to live with this particular characteristic. | |
| Oppo 95: Low Output via Stereo RCAs Dynamic Range Control actually compresses the peak of the waveforms, so that things like explosions, bass hits and effects are quieter than normal. The idea is to present good vocal dialog but without really loud sound during intense scenes (such... | |
| Bryston options The first generation Bryston amps (such as 9B) were okay, but somewhat dull sounding. The newer generations (SST, SST2) were much better resolution, but they had a tendency to sound dry and sterile. The newest "cubed" series is the best so far a... |