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| Emotiva separates or Yamaha AVR recommendation? Good to know. If you had a Yamaha AVR and were running it with your Monitor Audio Silver, then you pretty much know what a new Yamaha receiver will sound like. Another thing to think about -- if you are looking for dynamics, then the Marantz may... | |
| Emotiva separates or Yamaha AVR recommendation? Bi-amping at this level never really works out good. To do it right, you either need to do a y-splitter cable with an amplifier that has a very high input impedance, or you need to get an external active crossover. The bi-amp features in receive... | |
| Triangle Theta vs. B&W 805D3 with Luxman tube amp I don't know about that. They are both very similar for impedance ranges (nominal 8 ohm with a minimum 4.4 or 4.6 ohm). While the Theta Triangle is 2 db more efficient, 10 watts is not a lot of power to play with. Keep in mind that tube amps wi... | |
| Hdmi (I2s) upgrade Hey there. I'm actually tried an Audioquest Vodka and was totally unimpressed for sound quality, so I'm not sure that I would try the Diamond. The problem with Audioquest is they use such a small gauge (it was 30awg on my 2 meter Vodka), so the ... | |
| Rotel RB1582 mk2 vs Emotiva XPA2 gen3 Correction: The Emotiva XPA-2 Gen 3 is NOT A CLASS D AMP. However, it does use a switching power supply. I am intimately familiar with this amp as I have rebuilt and upgraded two of the DR models (I have one of them up for sale here on audiogon). ... | |
| Will adding an external DAC to my setup improve SQ significantly? There’s an L.K.S. MH-DA004 on usaudiomart for $800 from New York. It’s pretty much half of retail. That being said, I think the interconnects and cabling are definitely a weak link in your system. You would probably get a bigger boost on perform... | |
| Used McIntosh MX135 or Marantz 8802 @michelzay - yup totally agree with you. However, I have seen detailed pictures of the discrete analog boards (there are like 12 or 13 of them in the 8804). They are very well designed and each discrete analog board has 6 decent sized local power ... | |
| Used McIntosh MX135 or Marantz 8802 I would not say that McIntosh is better than the Marantz here in this scenario. I think you would really have to listen to each device to get a sense of what it sounds like. I have had the Marantz AV8804 in my system and was extremely impressed w... | |
| PC audio cards to Processor s/pdif can transfer 192 khz, but only for 2 channels. When you try to push 6 channels, I don't believe it will support it. If it seems to work with 6 channels at 192khz, then maybe something is different.Also, you said you have the Xonar Essence... | |
| AMP or Preamp Just in case anyone tries to sell you expensive cabling, I suggest that you buy the cheapest cabling you can find. Huh, that's interesting. I have found that cabling is extremely important and just as significant as the electronics you pick. Y... | |
| PC audio cards to Processor Great! However, I would recommend setting your sampling rate to 48khz because SPDIF really cannot transfer 6 PCM channels at 96 or 192 khz. Also, Dolby Digital / DTS would be a compressed version of 48khz anyways. This way, you can ensure that ... | |
| Want to borrow a Bryston Remote to teach my Logitech remote a command You might want to indicate your local city/stage so that they could potentially visit. I would find it highly unlikely that someone here would just mail you their remote. | |
| AMP or Preamp hey nobnewob, unfortunately you will find a lot of people on this site that can be arrogant and condescending. Also, many people will tend to push an idea or product because they own and like that direction, or be anti-product in the case with st... | |
| PC audio cards to Processor If the audio cards software is set to 5.1 etc. the result is stereo where only two channels received by the processor and converted to stereo on the system. I have experienced this same thing when viewing sources that send Dolby Digital Plus, suc... | |
| Possible New DAC for Discrete Opamp Rolling Yeah, I have tried a massive amount of combinations. It's always a give-and-take or elements of additive/removal depending on what combinations you use. At this point, I run a combination of Sonic Imagery 994Enh and Burson V6 Vivid in my Emotiva... |