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That's the best environment for measurements but the worst environment for listening. You should NOT have a floorstanding speaker in such a small room. Your M80s are too close together and I bet that beer bottle on the floor is really messing things up, especially since its empty :)

Than these are the speakers you should get. Now that is comedy :D

DD is mandated on DVD, DTS is optional. DD has much more marketshare. IMO DTS is becoming a relic now that Dolby unveiled TrueHD and is a mandatory format in Blu-Ray and HD DVD. They also have more engineering power than DTS.

That would be true if the bitrate was high enough for DD, which IMO it isn't. This is one of the reasons most DD soundtracks sound very compressed. If bitrate wasn't important (which it is) then Dolby wouldn't be introducing new formats with much higher bitrates in their lossy scheme. You can...

If we are just comparing regular DTS to DD, then DTS has the advantage when listening to multi channel music or very dynamic soundtracks in movies. As far as vocal intelligibility, I am not sure it would be audible. DTS uses less compression, has better channel to channel separation and less...

Darn I just picked up a copy of Animals on sale for $9.99 on CD and never thought to check for an SACD version. What a great album even to this day!

If it ain't Scottish its Crap! :D

B/C it would involve adding another DAC stage to the Zone2 preamp section. Unless you have a 5805, you will have to use analog connections for Zone 2 and 3.

Gasp - the thought of having sheep show up at your door :eek: LOL/

Robot; With your electronics and room dynamics I think you are better off with M60s. Also toe-ing in your speakers will only make them sound brighter. Of course you are hearing the B&Ws in a different room and with different electronics. Try bringing your Axioms to the showroom with the...

1. Genesis 2. Steely Dan 3. Pat Metheny Group 4. Marillion 5. Peter Gabriel

Yep they sure do. This is the rig I am using in my primary reference system along with the RBH T30-LSE system and its awesome!

Yea but true 720p can be pretty amazing. Dolby TrueHD is PCM. However, you cannot send the TrueHD bitstream from the DVD player unless its HDMI 1.3 capable. The question is, how much signal degradation (if any) is there sending raw PCM to the processor as opposed to having the processor do...

Thanks for clarifying and I understand. Did you compare the fidelity of TrueHD via HDMI vs analog on your 5805? I sure hope at least one of these new formats succeed beyond niche market status as I am certainly a fan of better audio and video quality. I would love to watch concert videos of...

Its my understanding that current Gen HD DVD players will re-encode TrueHD to DD+ and send that out via HDMI. I heard the next gen Toshiba and others will allow raw PCM output of TrueHD. I will be getting a Gen 2 player after CES to test out. Ideally however, we would have HDMI 1.3 with a...

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All of which was noted in my review and hence the average value rating. Though the average value rating was more because the 3910CI is nearly as good as the 5910CI at a fraction of the price. There is still no Blu-ray or HD player that can do SD as good as either of these Denon players...

The term universal came about to describe a DVD player that would handle DVD-A and SACD formats. WE are a # of years (if ever) from seeing a "Universal" player that will handle all existing formats including Blu-ray and HD DVD. To blame the manufacturers for this displays ignorance of the...

I thought I was pretty clear about that in this review. By esoteric, I mean DVD players from Linn, Krell, Arcam, etc. In many of our reviews such as the $4k Thule amp I recently reviewed in the past, it goes without saying there are better value products in their class. In that particular...

I had the opportunity to play a PS3 last night on my reference system. The graphics were excellent, at least as good as I've seen on my Xbox360. What I didn't like was the antiquated setup interface which I feel the Xbox360is superior in this regard. I also prefer the controllers of the...