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Leaving out the AV-8802A for the new app is ridiculous -- what's wrong with Marantz??? :mad:

Could it be that you left out some early Kenwood receivers -- sure enjoyed the memories of the rest, especially the Marantz when Saul still owned the company and would LOVE to see that gold-anodized thick plate front again with knobs and flywheel tuning instead of the el-cheapo thin steel...

Because Dolby insists on screwing up playback on older BD-players, I will avoid ALL Atmos-encoded Blu-rays -- prefer DTS anyway. Dolby is to blame for NOT making their audio tracks fully backward compatible AS CLAIMED and I see no reason to throw my Oppo BDP83SE away just because Dolby thinks I...

BMXTRIX -- very nice and appreciated response Thanks MikeSp

Am getting ready for a FP in our media room -- it is totally light-controlled although SWMBO* will not watch a movie in a totally dark cave-like room. Both of these FP's seem to be top notch for this price bracket and deciding on which is difficult since I have no experience with FP's...

Yep -- all amps and pre-pro have both balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA connections (and SMS-1 Parametric Equalizer too) MikeSp

With new subs that use balanced XLR cables, I would like to use Mogami microphone XLR cables for 25 ft. subwoofer runs -- Mogami XLR cables make excellent interconnects, have outstanding shielding and are dead quiet, so I am wondering if anyone here has used Mogami XLR cables as subwoofer cables...

BUT -- I would prefer to store all of my music files in a media server for convenience and perhaps use iRiver or other quality software and then feed those into my pre-pro via coax or Toslink. McIntosh is mostly about analog and love to sell expensive analog solutions whereas I prefer to stay...

Desktop computer -- plan to rebuild my current desktop tower and use its Asus P5Q3 Deluxe mobo and Quad core CPU as the basis for a media desktop computer with some sort of A/V-looking case. I did read through most of the preceeding thread postings and I thought that many were oriented toward...

no DACs desired for media server output Most quality audio devices from desktop computers output analog into an AVR -- my goal is to achieve the highest possible audio quality while playing WAV or FLAC files and feeding them either directly into my pre-pro which handles everything in the...

Previously, I have either used the audio that is onboard the motherboard or used a modest audio card for playing Web files and music through the computer's speaker system. With a media server that will feed from an audio device of some sort via digital interconnect to my pre-pro that keeps...

You answered the question nicely -- thanks. I am looking at building a new digital darkroom computer and the quad-4 CPU, motherboard and older video card from my previous build would make a good basis for a media server or HTPC and I had some qualms about doing a D/A conversion and then having...

Am considering making my own computer music server and using it in the following combination for lossless music files: McIntosh MX150 pre-pro Computer Media Server Ayre QB-9 USB DAC with balanced XLR inputs to MX150 J. River Media Center software Android remote controller of some sort...

McIntosh Labs has stuck with a design that McFans prefer -- the only other amps in the past 15 years or so from Mc that did not have a flat face were the MC501's and MC402's which had a 3-dimensional face but the same large blue meter and two knobs (one for power on, off, auto and one for meter...

wrong picture The MC601 has a flat face as per older generations of Mc amps and an 8 inch meter similar to that of the MC1.2KW amp. The picture appears to be of a MC501 which the MC601 replaces. MikeSp

Is there as much difference in sound quality between different brands of balanced XLR IC's as there allegedly is between different brands of RCA-terminated IC's??? Thoughts/opinions?? MikeSp

Thanks for your response -- I guess what seemed painfully obvious actually was as such -- I was merely searching for any tidbits of wisdom that might be specialized toward using quad star in which the process of creating the soldered connections might be slightly different and in addition to...

Good link -- THANKS!!! IF not neutrik XLR's -- what do you recommend -- Vampire or Switchcraft or ?? Mike

Although they are relatively inexpensive to purchase, I would like to build some XLR balanced IC's using Canare L-4E6S Star Quad and Neutrik connectors. There are some decent guides out there on the Web that I found in which two conductor shielded cable is used, but I cannot locate a graphic...

As others have pointed out -- great job!!! Did you use Canare 4S11 wire and if so, what size Techflex, heat shrink and wire pants did you use? Thanks, MikeSp