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| Oppo 981 vs 983 Which Has Better Picture Quality? PS VERY IMPORTANT if you are expecting a superior picture quality from the 983 - check with Oppo if the component outputs you intend to use will yield an upsampled image. I seem to recall that upsampling was only via the HDMI output. I could be mi... | |
| Oppo 981 vs 983 Which Has Better Picture Quality? Ryder - If you're interested in a new 983 one of the last Oppo dearlers to have any was Projector People. Currently they are showing it in stock, but I'd call to double check. Also, Oppo occasionally has refurbs available. The target pricepoint on... | |
| Oppo 981 vs 983 Which Has Better Picture Quality? I can't compare to the 981 as I haven't tried it, but I can tell you in my experience the 983 has a clearly superior picture to the 980. I also had better results with the digital output on the 983. Short of the Panasonic Blu Ray player I tried ou... | |
| The Room, not us, determines our speaker choices Saw a good flick last night called, "Bottle Shock"There's a great line in that film that comes to mind reading the all too familiar "pass the Grey Poupon" rhetoric I read here often. Youre a snob, and it limits youPut a pair of great speakers in ... | |
| what is the best Holly Cole CD? Temptation, but I'm a big Tom Waits fan so I love the material. She does a great job with it. | |
| The Room, not us, determines our speaker choices as an example, an mg 20.1 in a small room sounds better than any book shelf speaker in a small room, because i don't like box speakers. i can respect some brands , but i can't live with them very long. their faults annoy me.A close friend tried to... | |
| Good upsampling DAC w. HDMI Berkley Audio's Alpha DAC has BADA encrypted input which does allow for future support of HDMI (whatever that means). I think it may be a bit above your price point though. | |
| The best "imaging" speakers? I'm sure that speakers alone are not the answer. In the systems that gave me the best illusion of real life presence were MBL 101's, and a close second Hansen King. I think a key element of achieving this is rendering a lifelike scale (not too sma... | |
| firewire or USB for external music storage drive? Assuming that they are on the same bus, does the printer USB "tax" the DAC USB only when I use the printer or is it a conitnuous thing? The printer will "tax" the USB bus only when it is active. I doubt very much whether the throughput would inter... | |
| firewire or USB for external music storage drive? About the usb dac thing, and I know that isn't what the original poster was asking - while Firewire Dacs are few, firewire to spdif converters aren't, and they are relatively inexpensive ($200), so you wouldn't be limited to a USB dac - you can ge... | |
| firewire or USB for external music storage drive? all good except that you will find many more USB DACs then FW DACsI was under the impression the poster was asking about storage devices to store the music library on, and not about DACs. If you are asking about the DAC interface I'd be looking at... | |
| firewire or USB for external music storage drive? Firewire is probably the better choice if you are using a USB DAC. Every USB item you attach will share the bus with any others that happen to be demanding throughput at the time. So if you're running a USB DAC and a USB hard drive they will split... | |
| Shipping Questions - First Time Seller I always remove the tubes and ship them separately by USPS Priority Mail. For an amp like that it is cheap insurance and the buyer would probably agree. The tubes will arrive before the amp as USPS Priority is usually about 2 days. At 80lbs I thin... | |
| Please suggest good balanced Preamp Your list is already excellent. Any preference would have to be very much subjective and synergy would certainly be critical (so what's new?!). Add Modwrights LS36.5 - It has a 6H30 tube output and is tube rectified. One set of XLR's, no phono (Da... | |
| New amp or new cd player? I tried out a friend's Oppo 980 and was not impressed with the digital output through my DAC. It was OK but was handily spanked by my Modwright 999es. There may have been something amiss as I later tried an Oppo 983, which I still have. Same digit... |