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No. We had a wireless speaker at one time (connected to second zone output of our surround processor), which was used both outside and in the living room, but it was used so rarely that I didn't bother reconnecting it at some point. We could not change the source remotely. The wireless speaker...

My old Paradigms were built in Canada, and my Outlaw speakers were built in the US. There are still a fair number of domestically-made speakers (certainly more built that way than on the electronics side), although they are a minority these days.

I would be very surprised to find that an MP3 file played through a typical computer sound card would sound the same as an SACD being played in an even half-way decent SACD player. However, the individual components involved and their connections are important: what preamp/processor, what SACD...

Well, there are some receivers that don't provide a clear pass-through - some that make it impossible to pass without some alteration, or that can't pass 24p, or that can't pass 1080p without changing to 1080i and back (although they are more and more rare these days). For receivers like that...

Whether or not he's had a spiritual revelation notwithstanding (I'll pass on such speculation), Mark now faces a real-world demonstration of "the boy who cried wolf" if he tries to return to the audio community in any capacity. In how many posts, emails, phone calls, and meals over the last...

Actually, I think the main reason for the two HDMI outputs is to split audio and video, not to feed video to two displays. The idea is that an existing HDMI v1.3 receiver may not support passing 3D video through to an HDMI v1.4 3D display, forcing users to either (1) replace their receiver or...

Well, it means that you can still get stereo output with the BDP-93. You will need to set the audio output to stereo (the "Downmix" setting on their earlier players), and the left and right channels will be a true stereo output while the other six channels are ignored.

Chu's post sounded like he would spend weeknights in jail, too, with freedom during the day so he can work and start paying back the money he stole.

Stricken from his inner circle of dear friends? 'Tis a sad and hug-less place to be, Hugh. It is not a lonely place, though, as there seem to be a great many of us in that shadowy purgatory - deprived of his words, denied his promises of support, and with a secure grasp of our pocketbooks and...

Saw this posted elsewhere just a short time ago: The above quote is an email that Mark sent to a number of people earlier today. I was not included, although I was copied on some earlier mass emails from Mark prior to his indictment (last one was in mid-February, I think).

I was just wondering about his sentencing. It'd be curious to hear if any locals try to slip away from work early this afternoon and take in the proceedings. Late 2006 dinner with a $3,000+ bill? And how much was missing from raffles by then? Heck of a nice guy...

OPPO has been servicing (and continues to service) 971H DVD players, even though the last batch of those players was built in 2006 some time (probably before mid-2006). There's no reason to assume they'll be unable to do the same for the BDP-83. I'm told that they have taken measures to insure...

They do have the SR5005 receiver, which when combined with a Model 7125 goes for $1500.

When HDMI v1.4 was published, the Ethernet component seemed really loosely defined. I never found anything that clearly explained how they planned to implement it. Presumably, you need one HDMI v1.4 component that offers a network connection and a network hub/switch to support Ethernet over HDMI...

It probably only has an RF input (antenna). You'd need an RF modulator to feed it audio and video. I really doubt there's an RCA video input anywhere on it.

Someone mentioned ATI, who builds amps in California. Outlaw Audio's multichannel amps are all built by ATI. All of Emotiva's products are built in China. No US assembly.

The ABT is an excellent chip and they've had very good success with it, but it isn't the end-all and be-all of video processing. There are equally good and even superior products out there. A big part of OPPO's success was their determination to optimize their firmware for the chip, not simply...

I was surprised to see a change from ABT, as well, but from what I've been reading this weekend it seems very possible that the Marvell chip could represent either a lateral move or an upgrade from the ABT2010. Some of it depends on implementation, as always, but implementation has historically...

He sent out an email last spring to a number of people stating that he'd had some form of heart surgery and was recovering at home. Unfortunately, I don't have a note from the doctor to verify that, so I just don't know. Of course, there's also the Grinch's heart problem - that it was two sizes...

I've been wondering this very thing ever since they re-opened their forum last year and instituted their crazy moderation policies, as at that point I felt that AV123 was irretrievably screwed. The felony indictments add a new wrinkle to it, though. If he starts a new business, his reputation is...