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Oh, I sudenly remember, look for a CHESKY disc labeled Ultimate Demonstration Disc or something like that. Not sure if its DVD or CD.

I don't think it still is. But I suspect you may find one online at ebay or amazon. But I did see lately some other titles for CD and DVD testing that may contain some discreet frequencies for subwoofer testing. Just can't remember the titles. Avia comes to mind. Will let you know if i come...

Complete agreement in totto. Conservative power specs should be the norm. Whether in stereo or multi-channel. Receivers, Integrateds or Power Amps. Anything above that is a disservice to all concerned.

NAD is one of the few conservatively rated brands of receivers, integrateds and power amps that have consistently gained the respect of serious and seasoned audiophiles. Taiwanese-made, they have not succomed to the marketing pressures to hype their products for commercial gain that many brands do.

Sorry to disappoint you I have a Saint-Saens Organ Symophony whose sonics go well below 20Hz for the organ pedals notes and whose tirangles and flutes many not fundamentally reach 20khz but I am sure their harmonics do. It's a 1936 remastered CD in splendid MONO. And I listen sometimes in 2...

I may be using a plethora of "flowery" words that you so eloquently quote with their meanings any peasant can grasp. I like hyperbole, metaphor, irony and sarcasm, to mention some figurative semantic and literary arsenal. Maybe because I am used to discoursing with people with poetic imaginings...

Sorry for overlooking your querries. yes there is a test disc with discreet centered frequencies. I use the Sheffield "My Disc" test CD that I bought more than 7 years ago. Some of the tracks have indexes for individual frequency tones. So if your player can read indexes, great.

I don't know if any of you guys have heard of the word "conservative." In accounting, they stick to an ethical norm in valuating transactions and properties which I believe is called "Conservative Accounting Practice." I could be wrong, but I think violating this normative practice was what...

I sit corrected. Thanks. I should have said "the minimum the ear can perceive as significant when upgrading." I myself can perceive incremental volume changes from even a slight movement on my volume control. But it can be straining to try to hear such small changes when you are supposedly...

B&W the company uses ROTEL as its official amplifier to test and voice their products. Based on this alone, I'd consider B&W a perfect match to your Rotel amp. But that's just me.

As far as getting conservative and realistic continuous power rating is concered, this is all that matters to me. As revealed by these tests, the Z9 is a 112 watts/channel receiver, rated into 8 ohms, full bandwidth, and with all 7 channels driven. Yamaha never published this spec. They...

I disagree, the logic of that statement proceeds with unassailable deductive path from my arguments. Let me just say that there is this thing called PRIDE of OWNERSHIP. Whether in cars, homes, wristwatches, clothes, whatever. It's a primal instinct of the human creature. From it proceeds...

Mustang_steve, I can emphatize with your distress. As a PC audio enthusiast, you must be. I once used a PC to archive my CDs. Very convinient as each disc gets its own file so that everytime I inserted a disc, the PC immeditately recognized it and played only my favourite selections from...

I couldn't agree more. That would be typical alright. But there are many exceptions to this. Not every audiophile you meet has a subwoofer. I know many whose multichannel set-up is not only for HT but for SACD and DVD-A that, because their players and receivers do not have the required bass...

Perhaps. But like i said, it depends on design. Shoud I have hard facts to prove my assertions? I already said that most commercial mid-fi gears out there, if not all, use the class AB topology. Sorry to dissappoint you, I've encourntered AB amps that can get overly warm when idle. Just for...

There is simply so much promise behind the flat plasma panel display pining to be explored. To start with, it's space efficient, energy efficient and offers color brillance rivalling direct-view TVs. That such a display form factor would be the wave of the future for home entertainment and...

Seems the prognostics of Morgan and Stanley about online distribution as becoming the wave of the future for digital music is fast becoming a reality. I have always wondered why the studios never bothered to overhaul their pricing model for CDs. And they wonder that the internet has been...

Nothing would please me more. I think that's the problem, I must have misjudged you and some members here to have the right IQ to make the proper discernment. And that I have been duped into thinking this is a forum about "pursuing the truth in audio." I think you should lobby to have this...

Oh I see. So all you folks have heard and known about this all along. Nothing new. My bad. Ok, just enjoy your gears. Likewise, I've known all along that there are $300/meter cables out there being enjoyed by audiophools. Nothing new there, too. Next time you question these audiophools...

Often it helps if you have access to a signal tracer and oscilliscope. When I built my first solid state power amp back in 82, these two devices helped me adjust the bias trim on the power transistors to give cleaner output across all frequencies. The oscilliscope can display the distorted...