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How soon can we expect this new formats to appear in the market with sufficient titles to choose from? This lossless DTS++ format might even overtake DVD-A and SACD in the market for high resolution audio in the HD-DVD medium. THose DTS-CDs can and do give MLP-based DVD-As some competition...

Well, there's some reason not to regret all that much. Many LPs then had recycled vinyl materials as a result of that oil crisis of the 70s. So much surface noise. And most POP music were using thin or warped vinyls that made excellent resonating drum material when loaded on any turntable...

Ofcourse they can. Sound quality is never the contemplation for arrving at mere power specs. But the volume we can easily correlate with power abilities. That's also my point, having a level playing field to compare power specs done conservatively will easily put the power issue aside and...

You won't lose any performance at all. There's a greater liklihood you'd even get a boost in some aspects of performance. I stand corrected in my earlier post. There's not only very few integrated AV amps out there, there's virtually none. I thought I saw a Musical Fidelity or Krell...

Here's something typical of most power specs of a mass-fi product bannered in its brochures. Let me cite at ONKYO brochure for an upgraded 7.1 channel TX-DS989 Integra flagship receiver for 2001-2002: Amplifer features: 200w/ch (front), 200w/ch (center), 200w/ch (surround)...

True, there's hardly an correlation among receivers of different makes. Their volume knob or controls are also a design function that behaves differently from one model to another. One can be an analog or digital volume control. If digital, I am not even certain how linear their behavior is...

The objective of this hobby has always been and is the maximum enjoyment you can get from listening to music though some home playback gears. I often wonder who gets the most enjoyment. People who are gullible enough to try most everything that comes their way. Or people who have closed all...

This thread is about the "ALL Channels Driven...controversy." There really isn't supposed to be any controversy. People i know who have been in this hobby for so many years have taken such a measurement condition for granted. It's been there eversince the FTC mandated it in the 70s...

ALL receivers that are to be marketed in the US has to comply with FTC requirement. Not necessary elsewhere in this planet. And I don't see the relevance of which regulating body is important. The bottom line is essentially to achieve a level playing field where every player measures...

And how sure are you that brands like Pioneer and Yamaha are not rated at clipping points despite using 1 khz and not rating with all channels driven. Just to cite an example, the Pioneer VSXD811s is rated 100watts at 1khz at 1%THD. That is the extracted power at 1%THD at only 1 Khz with only...

This is a perfect example of a shallow assessment of my points. And a perfect, albeit shallow, justification for accepting dubious claims on their beloved mass market receivers. At no time did I ever claim these mass market manufacturers are "lying" between their teeth. All I said is that...

Why should they enter into the specs war? They are already confident enough with their massive power supplies and ultra massive capacitors to feel they have to. And I never said these mass products are lying. They conform to relatively lax standards like DIN and JETA that allow measuremet...

I'm also laughing my heart out with your assertions. Well, like I said, anyone is free to have whatever VALUE judgement they have in this hobby. Yours is just as valid as anyone who have money to throw away. What may be senseless to you make sense to others. And I couldn't care less what...

There's probably a digital equalizer or tone control for each channel you can set set via the on-screen menu like the one pictured above on a sony. But your own suggestion to set the center channel to "SMALL" should take care of the excees bass with one fell swoop.

Integrated multichannel amps are a lot fewer and can get more expensive than receivers for the same power and features. Those tuners in receivers are almost freebies thrown in. Actually, I find them irrelevant in an HT environment. When was the last time you listened to an FM broadcast in a...

That circular female connection with lots of pin holes is an S-video terminal. You would need an S-VIDEO cable to use it and your TV must likewise have an S-VIDEO terminal. That rectangular female connection is a VGA terminal to connect to your PC monitor. You would need a VGA cable to...

If I recall right, I came across a DBX pro-stuff gear called a Subharmonic Synthesizer that accepts your 2-channel stereo RCA input from a preamp, extracts the low frequencies and adds subharmonic content based on the LF information (as the name of the gear implies) and routes them to a separate...

I am in total agreement. I couldn't have explained away the apparent "illogic" any better. When I said "illogical" I meant that some actions that some do to make a gear sound better for them do not always square nicely with the intent of that gear. This hobby has lots of room for both the...

Agree. A well set-up home theater can sound a whole lot better than any regular theater. Especially with hi-fi componentry. There's really not much hi-fi equipment in your corner theaters.

My understanding is that the 0db setting in preamps (that's where your display logic gets the volume setting) is a reference indication that corresponds to the RMS voltage being sent by the preamp to the amplifier so that the amp can deliver its rated power level. Typically, that would...