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Congratulations to pcweber111, winner of the PB-1000 Review contest for his excellent review of the PB-1000. A big thank you to all of the reviewers that took part in this contest to help make it a success.

Tell me about it. It's becoming a full time job trying to cover all their new stuff. I've got some XPR-1's in for review right now!

My god time flies. That review is over 11 years old! It was a fun shootout.

The scale of that measurement is too wide, you can't really see what is going on. Here is a multi driver RBH speaker with a very flat impedance and pretty begin phase response. This speaker has 9 drivers so its quite a feat for such a complex design. Impedance Full Screen Image — Reviews...

sounds like you and Jim are on the right path to building a better Fried speaker than Fried. You're applying real science instead of witchcraft or maybe a better mix of science and witchcraft since you need both when it comes to loudspeaker design.

Bud was a big proponent of time-coherent speakers and mocked any designs that used higher order filter response networks. I recall him writing a letter to Stereophile to admit that people prefer the sound of shallow slope time coherent speakers over high order filter network alternatives...

Oh Boy Bud Fried was quite the myth perpetuator. I recall on a phone call with him, he once told me metal drivers are junk and any speaker that doesn't use a first order series crossover and a transmission line enclosure is also junk. He always claimed his speakers measured like a resistor but...

B/C the dominant metric in speaker cables is resistance. All of the cables we measure we do at DC and AC (Inductance and Capacitance vs frequency) including AC resistance.

That Lexicon processor is a very good product despite it lacking some of the latest features. You may want to wait for a more comparable processor with top notch dacs like the new XMC-1 from Emotiva or the new Marantz unit. If you're not using HDMI video switching in the processor, you could...

One thing you will always find with Audioholics is I don't consider any of us journalists. Journalists typically have too big of an ego to allow their work to be peer reviewed and corrected/edited when needed. On the other hand, I an much of my staff are degreed engineers. It's in our nature...

I made some minor tweaks today to the forum: increased edit post time from 60 min to 120 min increased edit title time fro 60 min to 120 min increased post count to 25k to be considered an "Audioholics Jedi". It was at 21k which was only 1k greater than the preceding title. increased # of...

You know I must have read it a few times and missed that. Thanks I will tweak the verbiage. I changed it to: You’ll notice that as you go up in frequency, the value of the sine wave changes at a greater rate than at lower frequencies: this is what slew rate is all about. Simply, slew rate...

Quite frankly I don't get this one. I search topics just fine on the new forum. If I type "Yamaha receivers" I get a list of related threads. This is how it used to work with our old forum too.

Well when we actually get paying clients, I will consider your suggestion. Geesh the gratitude :rolleyes:

Headphone Amp Listening Tests By request, I added the following addendum to my review which can be found in the Listening Tests section: Headphone Listening Tests Another nice audiophile feature of the BDP-105 is the dedicated headphone amplifier which is tied directly into the ESS Sabre...

No time to do additional measurements but I will try the headphone amp with my Sennheiser HD 600 headphones which are 300 ohm impedance.

Guys, the list from post #110 is a bit outdated since we addressed many of the items. Can someone post an updated list of action items again and preferably a list of items multiple people are experiencing the same issues with? I want to get our developer on this but don't want to spin his...

Correct, the balanced outputs are pure direct, no bass management.

I did discuss the USB DAC. As for the headphone amp,, I just got tired of writing ;) I will add in a followup about that soon.

Per Oppo: ISO playback was briefly available in the BDP-93/95 players although we never announced it nor officially supported it. However the studios requested through various channels that we remove ISO playback due to the concerns of playing backup movie discs. In a firmware release note...