eldartford
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| Living Stereo SACD's are a comin Rcprince...I agree with you that 16-bit 44.1 KHz is barely adequite for audio, and that's what's wrong with CDs. However, it is my impression that professional digital recording and mixdown consoles have been 24 bits from the time they were introd... | |
| Living Stereo SACD's are a comin Rcprince...Is PCM a "bad word"?. Mixing consoles have, for many years, been 24-bit PCM at a high sample rate. The Sony DSD system is designed for compatability with these existing mixing consoles, which will be around for a few years. Nothing wron... | |
| Freezer Cryoed Cables... I haven't read all the comments but I gather that chilled CD discs are touted. I can't see how this would affect a CD, but if you chill an LP, and play it before it warms up I would expect the sonic character to be different, because the complianc... | |
| Digital Amps - Your opinions and why so few? Rooze...I understand that you are operating the amps bridged (1600 watts!). You should realize that each channel is operating into 2 ohms, and while the amp is built to withstand this environment, I think that fidelity is somewhat degraded relativ... | |
| 115 Volts or 220 Volts ? Higher voltage means less current for a given number of watts (power) so you can use smaller wire. That's why automobiles changed from 6 volts to 12 volts. Aircraft, where weight is important, have gone to 24 volts. This is a pain because you can'... | |
| HYBRID SACD stereo or multichannel. Audiobugged...Sure they can. They have just two channels, with the sound intended for the rear out-of-phase between channels. When a quad record is played back through the intended decoder, out-of-phase signal is attenuated for the front speakers,... | |
| HYBRID SACD stereo or multichannel. Metralla...Thanks for explaining your reasoning. As I understand it (and info is scarce) the mixdown coefficients used by a DVD-A player in creating the stereo program are selected by the recording engineer and encoded on the disc. So the recordin... | |
| Ported, Sealed or Transmission Line Trelja...Of course, I jest a bit. Nevertheless I have never heard a ported speaker that I could not recognize, from its sound, as being ported. Although I prefer sealed boxes, and have built my subwoofer systems that way, I have never heard any bo... | |
| Will Creek 5350 SE drive Magnepan 1.6QR? With a distortion spec of 0.005%, it can only be a Bose. | |
| HYBRID SACD stereo or multichannel. Metralla....I am curious WHY you are put off by the DVD-A method for stereo playback of multichannel discs. It seems to me that the flexible DVD-A protocol is far superior to the locked-in-concrete rules that Sony has laid down for SACD. | |
| Ported, Sealed or Transmission Line Again I sum it up..."Ported speakers make excellent bird houses". | |
| HYBRID SACD stereo or multichannel. "Hybrid" refers to the fact that the disc has two layers, one reflects light at the wavelength of a CD player laser, and the other at the wavelength of a SACD player. Of course, the CD layer, which you can select, is 2-channel. On the SACD layer, ... | |
| Digital Amps - Your opinions and why so few? Telescope_trade... I, also, haven't heard the Hyperions. As Gmood1 says, the ZR1600 input is balanced (remember this is a Prosound amp) but it works fine single ended using the Radio Shack phono/rca adapter. With regard to preamps, the ZR1600 inpu... | |
| Digital Amps - Your opinions and why so few? No matter how many reviews you read you will not really know how an amp would sound with your speakers, room, and source. The real virtue of the CarverPro ZR1600 (which by the way has no connection to Bob Carver) is that the cost is so low that mo... | |
| Will Creek 5350 SE drive Magnepan 1.6QR? When distortion gets below about 1/2 percent, its significance is small compared with other amp specs. The kind of distortion matters too. IM is the worst, and is usually the one quoted. Harmonic distortion can be indistinguishable from the harmon... |