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I love your room Alex !!! Really cool !!

Sounds like you've got your head screwed on right buddy!

I believe you are correct. I think I fiddled with the PS3 output and when I switched it to PCM out and sent that signal directly to my Rotel via optical, the sound was high def but 2ch only. I then switched the Rotel into 5 ch stereo mode and it sounded wonderful. "Chris Botti - Live in Boston"...

With BD discs encoded as such, I can get 24 bit audio via my PS3 into my legacy Rotel AVR via optical cable connected directly to the AVR. I'm not sure how I set it up, but I know it's 2ch stereo only and I make my Rotel matrix it into 5ch stereo. Even though it's not DTS or Dolby Digital...

Pogre.........If I go ANYWHERE in the near or far future, It will be BACK to simple 2ch stereo.......likely using vintage equipment and speakers. I honestly miss those days......

Hehehe......sounds like you have a good marriage !!

I find it odd that you turn your subs off. Most subs go into a standby mode until they are fed a LF signal and then they turn on automatically. Why not run them that way?

I get about 20 channels here in Montreal with my OTA setup but my antenna is outside on the roof above my apartment which is 3 stories up! The picture quality with OTA is exceptional.....straight from the broadcast towers !!

I think we're at the point of saturation in HT and audio. Back in the early 80's when CD digital audio was first introduced, it was something that no one had seen before. Ease of use, great sound......no wear and tear....the ability to instantly change tracks etc. People bought into that and the...

Atmos requires special mixing and encoding that costs money to do for something that 99.5% of the population does not have or in the opinion of many, do not need. That's the problem. It's the same problem that SACD and DVD-Audio had. It's that 'cool' factor that they tried to sell telling people...

I agree with your opinion. All the formats discussed above are niche markets and owned by only a very small market of people. So why would it continue to be supported over time?

You are sooo right Dave !! I quickly found out in those days that in some cases, the vinyl actually sounded better than the CD. One big eye opener was Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors". When I bought the CD version of this album, I expected to be blown away and was really disappointed. I found out...

I'm still running my PS3 "Fatboy" in high gloss piano black for my DVD and BD discs and it still rocks after 10,000 years !! I'm all for tech improvements but I'm sticking to my 1080 stuff for the next little while. When I was younger, I bought into the 'new' stuff and bought into the...

The digital vs analog debate has raged for years with audiophiles and with the recent resurgence of vinyl, it has begun yet again. I'm 53 years old now and spun a lot of vinyl back in the day. In 1983, I bought my first CD player and first CD and spun Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" on it...

With 4K, they put the cart before the horse. They created the TV's with lack of content and almost none on broadcast TV channels. This has left people basically watching a lot of 1080 content upscaled to 4k. Duh?!! Also the fact that the industry is expecting people to upgrade ALL their...

I could not have said it better than TLS guy. I had many tape decks over the years including reel to reel ones. I did have a tape head de-magnetizer as well and yes, it did improve hi frequency performance but it had to be done carefully, just like TLS explained.

My dog used to howl in obvious pain when I played my stereo but would not volunteer to leave the room. Instead, he would crawl under something and just continue to howl. I had to dig him out and dispatch him outta' the room. He really did not like it. The worse case being a harmonica! One toot...

Just buy good quality interconnects.......not ridiculously priced one's. Heck, My local dollar store sells 6ft HDMI cables for $2.50 each!! Sad to say but.........I bet they work !!

Yes no problem. DO IT !! There will be no loss of CD audio quality via Optical and you can customize that input to where you want it for CD audio on your Marantz. Just remember that sometimes, depending on what player that your using that the DAC's in the player itself might be better than the...

I listen to the DVD audio version of this recording in 2 channel stereo.......not DD. There is no DTS track on this DVD audio recording. The 2 channel version offers the highest resolution. In the disc menu, it offers a pile of options as to how you want to listen to it.......each one offering...