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| Home Theater Receiver recommendations for B&W 803S? This only relates to digital cables. If the cable is too short, what happens is when the digital pulse hits the target device, some of the charge will actually be reflected back to the source equipment. This "reflected pulse" will interfere with... | |
| Krell Owners: Is XLR really superior to RCA? I still find significant differences between brands/types of balanced XLR cables. The balanced cables may be more accurate than single ended RCA, but you are still relying on the charge/discharge characteristics of the wire and connectors in the ... | |
| Home Theater Receiver recommendations for B&W 803S? Oh, you already have the Panasonic DMP-DB35. That doesn't even have a digital COAX, so I would not bother getting coax cables now, unless you want to. It's not worth it to try a good toslink cable because you are already thinking of replacing t... | |
| Home Theater Receiver recommendations for B&W 803S? I would not worry too much about the age of the HTS1000. The primary filter elements use film capacitors and coils, which really don't wear out. The HTS1000 does use a couple of electrolytic capacitors, which do dry out over time, but unless you... | |
| Musical Sound Quality of AV Surround receiver vs. pure Stereo I would like to make a correction on my description of the Krell integrated. The Krell integrated that I heard was the new K-300i, which uses the new iBias sliding bias full Class A amplifier module. This is a very creamy, liquid and lush sound.... | |
| Another fine mess… Yes, the connection path is still valid for Casablanca II. If you have digital COAX inputs (they are just RCA inputs), then you are good to go.----Benzman had an interesting idea, but it is only good if you have the Oppo 103/105/203/205 player. ... | |
| Home Theater Receiver recommendations for B&W 803S? I had originally recommended the Marantz because I am a firm believer in discrete analog stages. It is pretty amazing that Marantz can deliver a processor that has 14 fully discrete analog output stages for $4k retail!!! To get an 8 channel disc... | |
| Home Theater Receiver recommendations for B&W 803S? Wow. I'm really sorry that you felt like you went backwards in some ways with the Marantz. When I tested the 8805 in my system, I was using all my very high end power cords and interconnects and everything. The only thing I did not do was upgra... | |
| Home Theater Receiver recommendations for B&W 803S? The thing about HT processors is that they lose their value really fast. The 8802A is selling "used" between $1500 and $1800 nowadays. About 6 or 8 months ago it was at the $2000-2200 range. | |
| Another fine mess… You're actually better off running straight digital COAX from your cable box and oppo bluray to the Theta Casablanca III. The "HDMI to optical" will do the same thing, except at much lower performance. Audio through HDMI is already compromised a... | |
| Toslink, Coax, AES/EBU, USB 2.0 audio, HDMI?? The toslink glass fiber may have been stated to be better than toslink/coax, however toslink is still a compromised transfer mechanism. If anybody has googled around, the engineer from Lampizator did some scope tests and showed that the square wa... | |
| Amps that bring liveliness to low efficiency speakers? It might help if you tell us what speakers and gear that you have. The lack of liveliness could be due to a very warm sounding preamp/source and/or speakers rather than being inefficient. But more watts on an inefficient speaker is always good. ... | |
| Which Budget HT Bypass Option? I will second the recommendation on the PS Audio Steller Gain DAC/preamp. It is going to be a superior sounding preamp to all of your other choices, and it does include a very excellent DAC - better than the TEAC UD-301. If you can swing the cos... | |
| Home Theater Receiver recommendations for B&W 803S? That's really awsome! It's amazing on how good a particular set of speakers will sound if you match a really good high current amp! You are now getting into the "really good stuff" area!---" The distinction between individual instruments is stri... | |
| What’s in a watt Oh crud, I missed the fact that the Lyngdorf 170 watts is at 4 ohms. This is a lot less than the Anthem, which is rated 400 watts at 4 ohms. The Anthem will definitely be able to handle the impedance drops of your Focal speaker much better, but... |