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| Blu Ray Plyr for Two-Channel Stereo RCA Outputs ? The Marantz UD5007 is great and at a price that's well below its performance! It has stereo outs and hdmi only though but if the stereo outs are what your after there up to snuff for stereo music playback. | |
| Best HDMI cable for sound - your experience Pangea (POCC) 24 awg with 4% silver is great for Audio and I haven't found better so far. I plan on next trying it against the Wireworld 2nd from the top. but this Pangea is a very musical cable and great video as well. | |
| Wireworld Silver Starlight I've had the 18gbps verion installed for about a week now on my Bluray player (put the second on the cable box today) and it does offer better detail,saturation and a contrast over the previous Monoprice (Redmere) active cable. I did lower the sat... | |
| Wireworld Silver Starlight Thanks Ozzy!Those are the one's I ordered, I'll run them up against the original slims I have and will post back what I find. | |
| Wireworld Silver Starlight 06-10-15: OzzyYou guys should try the Redmere (Hi Rez) HDMI cables. To me, they were way better (picture quality) than the WireWorld Silver Starlight's and waayyy cheaper.How about the sound Ozzy?I'm using the regular slim redmere's for video and ... | |
| Shunyata Venom PS8 Power Distributor? "PlangcoI have a Shunyata Venom PS8 and love it. Wonderful Musicality and increase in dynamics. Did not dull the dynamics, blunt the highs, and color the sound like PS Audio P-5 and Dectet did. Now on to a dedicated power line..."Interesting! I ha... | |
| Power conditioner I'm about to try out the Shunyata Defender into a WireWorld Matrix 2 powerstrip (seems to be well made but not a lot of info or reviews on it) against my PS Audio Dectet , Quintet and Soloist Premier inwall conditioners.If I like it enough I'll go... | |
| What Pre/Pro do you recommend? Marantz made a point on emphasizing what they did concerning jitter , I really can't believe how good it sounds, I sold my Oppo 105 as well and replaced it with a Marantz UD5007 to use as a transport. I did plan to get the 103D but didn't need the... | |
| What Pre/Pro do you recommend? Your in luck to be looking for a pre/pro with the release of the Marantz 8802 and seeing its right in your budget , I would hesitate to get one. I have had it in my setup for a week , it replaced an oppo 105 and Marantz 8801 and the sound is extre... | |
| Comparing Audioquest cable to Morrow I've replaced upwards of 80% of my AQ cables with Morrows. I find the 3's the sweet spot for now till I try the 5's (speaker and IC's) one day, I found them very natural sounding. | |
| your Thoughts on AV8801? Some of you should here the 8801 do multi/ch sacd with Audyssey over hdmi simply beautiful comes to mind! And as a preamp from my Oppo 105 its still the cats meow for 2/ch. And yes I've hooked up my 105 direct to my Halo A21 for some killer 2/ch b... | |
| Help finding a Mid-Sub Get a Ken Kresiel DXD12012 as a single or get two and stack in what's called a duo configuration. I read your post and it fits the bill perfectly and then some. | |
| Morrow Audio Cables I concur Runnin! I had the SP3 biwires as my first taste of Morrow's cables and later tried the MA1 and then the MA2, I then bit the bullet and tried the MA3 xlr's from my pre to my A21 and the rest is history! I did last year upgrade my Oppo95 to... | |
| Help with processor decision I pretty much tried to clarify the methods of connection and the reasons and uses for each and commented on each of there sonic merits to my ears at least. I'll state once more that I use the Sabre dac's via XLR to the 8801 in Pure Direct assigned... | |
| Help with processor decision DbphdThree? Analog from the Oppo direct to the amp and HDMI-2 from the Oppo to the 8801 would seem sufficient. I hope you don't take analog from the Oppo to the 8801 and digitize it again. Or do you take analog from the Oppo to an 8801 passthrough... |