Posts by Thunder240

Hey guys, I've been reading all the happy customer reviews of the 8060s, as well as the Absolute Sound review, and it got me wondering, what's different between the 8000 series and the 7000 series that I own? (I have a pair of 7002s in...

Here's my review of the Sony BDP-S580: http://www.avsforum.com/products/sony-bdp-s580-3d-blu-ray-disc-player-with-built-in-wi-fi-accessory-kit/reviews/4172

Quote:Originally Posted by postrokfan Well, considering that the typical human hearing range is 12 Hz to 20 kHz it doesn't really matter if a system's extension goes beyond 20 kHz. And, it just gets worse with age. and yet some...

I just sold my Emotiva UPA-2 on Audiogon, to be replaced by an Odyssey Stratos Plus, and while I wait for Klaus to build me my new amp, a buddy of mine offered to let me borrow his Parasound Halo A23. I've always been a fan of the...

Quote:Originally Posted by oldprof Also check out the Sony BDP-S790. (MSRP $250). Very highly rated and 2 outputs - one for audio, one for video. I recently watched Avatar using the Sony and my 3808 -- great picture and sound. ...

So, I've been playing hi-res WAV files up to 24/192 on my BDP-S580 via the USB port, and they sound fantastic, but I've always wanted to set up a music server for greater flexibility. So I recently started experimenting, and I discovered...

Indeed, alac is a great lossless format (it uses a .m4a wrapper, meaning its essentially aac except lossless). For OSX there is a free ap called Max that you can download from download.cnet.com to convert flac to alac. For Windows I'm...

Quote:Originally Posted by kiwiguy listening to 24/192 (flac) from hd tracks now streamed from a network drive, also streams 24/192 (wav) (vinyl rip) over toslink to an external dac here...really is a great piece of kit. Great,...

Quote:Originally Posted by Martycool007 So I think the big question is, how does this player sound? There are some other strong contenders in this price category. Has anyone tried downloading and playing HD songs, such as those from...

Guys, my apologies if this was discussed years ago in this thread -- I did a quick thread search and didn't see anything. Can the Denon 3808 stream 96/24 or 192/24 files from computer over the network (either FLAC, WAV, or...