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    UN-Official Formula 1 Thread

    I think the track has some promise, but needs to be fine-tuned for more interesting racing. The track definately need a resurface for F1 racing, too bumpy! It must have been quite the workout driving 61 laps around there. The whole turn 10 complex is silly and should be completely reworked. It...
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    Those of you with BluRay Players

    Do you have a link to that HT mag article? Was the test double blind? If not...it's pretty much useless. I find it hard to believe that there's that much PQ difference between a PS3 or Panasonic BDP-50 and the $2000 Denon, but maybe that's just my bias? Almost no one uses the DACs on...
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    New Oppo BDP S83 Blu-Ray player!!!

    I'm still guessing $599...
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    Need Help finding Chopin Piece

    This is all pretty interesting to me, as I've played guitar (on and off) for about 10 years. I can mess about on the piano (read: keyboard) a little bit as well, but I can't read music. It's pretty limiting when it comes to playing piano, as it takes me a while to figure out chords and notes...
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    Need Help finding Chopin Piece

    That goes a bit above my head. I know a (tiny) bit about music theory. I understand D# and E-flat are the same note if you were to look at them on a Piano keyboard, but I'm a little lost when you bring up enharmonics and double-sharps :confused:. Are you saying that when your talking about a...
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    New Oppo BDP S83 Blu-Ray player!!!

    I believe the reciever will still do a PCM conversion in this case however due to the need for bass, level, and time management (TLS guy could give a better explaination of this than I). Basically you need to put together an all analog bass management system if you REALLY want to skip the PCM...
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    Need Help finding Chopin Piece

    I've noticed from my random classical music buying :D that many of the albums with tons of tracks on them have that "recorded in a tin can" SQ. I got the song title off my MP3 tag from a rip of such a CD I alluded to earlier, so I'm not 100% about it being accurate (D# vs D-flat). Either way...
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    Need Help finding Chopin Piece

    Thanks. Have you heard any of those albums? 40 songs on the album frightens me a bit....
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    New Oppo BDP S83 Blu-Ray player!!!

    This part sounds like a review for some snake oil cables. ;) I'm not disputing what you say....ok, maybe a little bit. I've never been able to notice a difference between my Oppo 981 and my Onkyo 705's DAC's, they sound slightly...different I guess, but I couldn't tell you which one sounds...
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    Need Help finding Chopin Piece

    I know there's some real classical music buffs here at AH. I'm looking for a really high quality (DVD-A or SACD if possible), and well performed version of the following: Chopin: Preludes #15 in D Sharp I've always known it as Raindrops. I have one really badly mastered CD version. I need...
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    Shawshank Redemption: December 2nd

    Can't blame you there, with forced 16:9, overly compressed picture, and stupidly hot sound......It's Joe Six Pack and his 32" LCD's dream channel. :)
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    New Oppo BDP S83 Blu-Ray player!!!

    Can you hear the difference between different DAC's? EDIT: I think HDMI 1.0 supports LPCM (At least it does according to WIKI).
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    Pink Floyd's Richard Wright Dies

    Here's a wonderful article I found on the UK Telegraph website: Richard Wright: allowing others the freedom to fly Yeah, the Wall was the last tour for the full Pink Floyd compliment. Rick quit the band in 1980 after the tour. Their last album "The Final Cut" (not counting A Momentary...
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    New Oppo BDP S83 Blu-Ray player!!!

    I have to disagree with you on the DVD-A and SACD thing. I use those formats alot and I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 titles. There are a TON of classic SACD's. Not sure what you mean by "difference is not that far from CD's at this level??? Two points: CD's aren't produced in...
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    What Comes First?

    Why not? I will. Speakers, first, always! Theres such a giant gap between the improvements made with better speakers vs. anything else. The amplifier is what you buy to feed the speakers. It makes no sense to buy an amp/reciever and then the speakers. That's like buying gasoline before you buy...
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    New Oppo BDP S83 Blu-Ray player!!!

    I definately understand where you're coming from. Putting it at $400, or even $500 would by necessity kill their DV-983HD, which hasn't been out that long. Those $700 players still won't play SACD & DVD-A's, and probably won't contain the Anchor Bay ABT2010 chipset, won't pay PAL movies...
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    Pink Floyd's Richard Wright Dies

    I saw "Pink Floyd" duing the Division Bell (P.U.L.S.E) tour....but it can hardly be considered Pink Floyd without Waters. It has always been a dream of mine that they would reunite and tour. It's still possible (albeit without Wright)..:mad: I've also seen Roger Waters during two different...
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    New Oppo BDP S83 Blu-Ray player!!!

    I don't think many J6P buyers are buying Oppo's anyway. It's not like their a giant electronics company to the general public. J6P buys Sony, LG, Samsung, etc....he's never heard of Oppo, or AV123 or any such company. I don't think that's their intended demographic with this player. Don't get me...
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    Help with SD and flat panel.

    Of course you can put up a LCD without upgrading your cable. I'm not sure "digital" cable would really make a difference, as it's still broadcasted in standard definition or 480i. What you really need to make that LCD shine is HD content! Usually this is in the form of Blu-ray (1080p) or HD...
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    Shawshank Redemption: December 2nd

    I really love this movie, but I must agree with Aberkowitz, I'll probably pass on this Blu-ray. 2 Reasons: 1.) I've seen it 4,543,203,938,901 times. I don't think I can ever watch it again, I had the VHS, own the DVD, not to mention that it's on TNT or TBS every other week. :D 2.) I...
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