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It sounds fantastic. I'm a big fan of Kitaro's Silk Road suite, and though this is not what I would have favored if the original Silk Road volume 1 would have been available, I've found it to be a wonderful compilation with the original recordings but remastered with a much lower noise floor...

I'm well aware of my gear's capabilities. But "all channel stereo" on both AVRs activates the center channel with a monaural track, killing channel separation. As for my HK 3490, It does not have any speakers on it. I use it with a headset mostly, and sometimes as a Phono preamp to the AVR via...

Then lighten-up. It's called a joke, and it's a non-threatening one at that.

Tsk tsk.... I don't use streaming services, but I'll bet a lot of Netflixers will definitely frown upon this...

-> Absolutely not. The repair work on his unit seems to have been mishandled, I don't think it justifies bashing anyone, except, perhaps, the repair guy who seems to have done a poor job. -> Hmmm... Remember the scene in "Back to the future" when Marty tells the bus-boy about becoming mayor...

It depends on the cabinet's design.

1 - Inference to "female arousal" over people's enthusiasm for Oppo devices is indecent, callous and derogatory. Condescension won't get you anywhere. 2 - A power supply's failure is usually do to overloads, which suggest a, or multpile surges, which, in turn means it's highly likely it wasn't...

The "B" stock options are very nice.

A lot of people who complain of having a receiver dying early will not admit the dead item was not well ventilated. Perhaps Onkyo's designs are more susceptible to this than other brands. For the sake of aesthetics, people put AV gear in all manners of closed cabinets, or in shelves far too...

Correct. Even old 480i will pass work. Well Anthem looks right, nice and spiffy, and it really sounds good, but I'm not familiar with their customer service and support, nor about their durability. I like the Anthem MRX-510's rear end and specs, but it is an expensive piece of kit. I'd stay...

Amazon-Claus just dropped this in my mailbox: Kitaro's "Silk Road best in SACD" :D

Here's my testimonial about this: It depends on my source. However my particular AVR does no allow for a stereo "A+B" front and back. It forces the dadgummed center channel on me when using it's DSP to augment from Stereo to more speakers. My solution to this is to use Foobar with a 4 channel...

Kitaro's "Silk Road best in SACD"

A friend of mine as told me that playing files over DLNA via Roku and Plex combo can be, and is often subject to on-the-fly transcoding. He switched to a WD live TV. I prefer to use a WD device and an Oppo 103, on real network shares instead of DLNA. I don't use the "Cutsy" catalogs with...

The Oppo is quieter than anything i've ever owned, bu sure, if OP has a 2000$ cd player, that would likely change my answer... I'm assuming a device of a few hubdred bucks, and decade old, like most. Guess I should have asked...

Would gladly dump my receiver for that one, room EQ software can take a hike. This thing's rear end is beautiful, and the front is as classy and functional as one could ever expect an AVR to be. For: - Multi-channel analog input - Phono input - XLR - Onboard screen and system options and...

I'm not much of an extremist, but if you are, The Register just published a paper about a prime example of extreme. $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience. Will you guys hate me for laughing to tears ?

Looks good, but what's your media transport ? I would add an Oppo BDP-103/BDP-105.

I agree, you can ditch the CD player. That BDP will inevitably become your go-to player for just about everything. Have fun.

Googled the first line, figured he'd cut'n'paste the same lines in ads all over the place. And he did. He was asking 1130$, but it is now sold, according to the add. Another one for 900$ I guess we will probably never see the OP again...