Posts by tvrgeek

I have never seen comments on the question if the gain of the sub amps needs to be the same as the mains and the relationship to the driver efficiency. Does this mean the perfect amp is one with the same gain as the main? Let's pretend...

I just picked up a NAD 565 "refurb" for half your budget. I is better than my outboard DAC. I HATE BD players. Stupid JAVA engine that has to boot. I want power up, put in a disk and push play. I have space limits, so a lot of decks like...

It used to be the V15 has a big hooking stylus just for that. Belive it or not, I still have an old M3d somewhere I used. It is not the cartridge that s special, you need a big conical tip.

So I took the Panasonic back and saw a Sharp with an HDMI input. Did they get smart? Seems no. It is designed for some phone something and only switches if the player is powered up and with the remote. At least I discovered this by...

Key Digital. My bad.

Great guess, but tried that to no avail. Which switch from Digikey? The one I have is the little half circle three way one. Of course, the faster boot is one of the attractions to the Panasonic.

I have two HDMI auto switches. With old DVD's everything is fine. The problem is when I added a Pioneer Blur ray, it seems to remain "active" when in off mode. I bought a Panasonic last year and it works fine. I needed to use it...

Quote: Originally Posted by hd_newbie No, it is not OK for music either. See my earlier post for why. This is physically impossible, Disagree. It all depends on the speakers. Some larger full range are much cleaner and just as...

Unfortunately, I think the trend is to PC based, hard drive solutions.

My experience is the current technology beats the older ones. I have a cheap e-bay "muse" I am very happy with. It has the current top of the line BB DAC. Drives my Grado's. Yes, the power supply could be better. Yes, I could design a...