Quiet_Hollow

In what specific instance did this occur?

If you run an analog source okay, but this is a great way to make a digital source sound like junk..no matter how good one thinks it sounds. Avoid the A/D conversion of a digital source (ie. resampling) on the front side at all cost. It's an uneccessary step that adds audible distortion. The only digital amps that sound impossibly good are the one's that process PCM natively using IC's. Late model Panasonic, NAD M2's, TacT, Lyngdorf, Kenwood, Sherwood NewCastle, and most recently Pioneer. In this particular context, Rotel is thumbing their nose at the consumer, essentially saying, "We could've made great class D amplifiers 15 years ago, but no one would've taken us seriously because our mavericks in sales brainwashed you so well on our legacy technology ...coincidentally, now that all of the free world is in a state of environmental fuss, our class D product can actually move off the shelves at our bloated price points." ...."or so the German's would have us believe."

As far as components go, sitting on my hands in 2008 waiting for Outlaw to come out with their 997 Trinnov-based receiver. It was never released. Meanwhile, Panasonic was liquidating their soon-to-become-legendary XR series. I completely missed the boat there, so I spent a few more years with the trusty Yamaha. Not getting into horn speakers sooner. 5 years of listeing to my bestfriend's father's B&W 580's throughout adolescence. Then got the snot beat out of me at a local rock concert by some wierd-looking Cerwin Vega boxes labeled "Earthquake". They hit like the B&W's never could, at any volume. Built my first Sansui knock-off's in highschool powered by my late grandfather's JCV VR. I got a ton of mileage out of those clones and the Yamaha NS-A's that followed, but never could get that in-your-face, tight bass that I recalled from that concert. After snooping around I determined that horn's was were where the action was at, and I was 24 when I acquired La Scala's that I own to this day. It was a full seven years after graduation until I got into the Klipsch hot-seat and my audio experience took off at mach 10. Finally, giving up the cornet and musician scene altogether in 7th grade. Playing an instrument was where I could really express my emotion. That came to a halt too soon in life, thanks to an absolute prick for an instructor and suprisingly little support from my family at the time.

I agree.. I second this idea... +3 [Y]

Nice patronization. This thread wouldn't exist if it were any less confusing to Don. [&]

[:^)] ...I'm stumped. Other networks sound just fine for cable. No doubt here's compression, but the mix sounds completely off. My music channels blow Paladia out of the water. Kinda bummed because of the great HD performances otherwise. You hear what I'm hearing?

Definitely hiss in the recording...right out of the gate....Reminiscent of a cassette tape recording. Guitars are indeed clipped at parts..notably near the end...could be the original recording though, I'm not that familiar with what the master of this session is like. Stick to WAV or FLAC to avoid the gamble and welcome to Klipsch speakers letting you know how good your source material is. []

Anyone else get this channel? It always sounds terrible...which sucks because the network tends to cover some really cool performances. It's like I'm listening to the vocal monitor mix all the time. What gives?

Is there any possibility that you could make use of that DVI port on the DVD player? You'd need a DVI to HDMI adapter, then it'd run HDMI (in lieu of component video) directly to the TV, skipping over the AVR. You'd lose the ability to switch the video signal through the AVR (ie. using a single remote), but I believe you'd find the improvement in picture quality worth the effort.

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I doubt it. Must be a new blind CEO thing. I mean, it was a novelty in the late 1800's, it stumbled in the 50's, never matured into a big selling point for IMAX, flopped several times in the video gaming market. The cycle just keeps repeating. Anyone remember all that hot air in the 80's about how virtual-reality was going to cause a paradigm shift in the entertainment industry? [8-)]

FYI - Those "mushroom" drum hits are frequency-centered at 40 Hz.

There's a whole forum dedicated for people that certainly believe so. http://www.whatsbestforum.com [^o)]

http://www.danleysoundlabs.com/pdf/SH%2096%20spec%20sheet.pdfand http://www.danleysoundlabs.com/pdf/danley_tapped.pdf All the information an engineer needs to determine the charactersitics of the design is contained in those two papers. Beyond that requires listening to them in-person.

Danley SH96. They are not vintage however.

My neighbor's house rattles a bit in bass heavy scenes. []

In favor of the sound...naturally. No one has ever gotten the cops called on them for having their TV set too bright. Great sound can move people....and things occasionally. []

LED ? OLEDTwo entirely different animals. One is LCD filter based, the other is completely emissive. http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens15116501_1289065581THE_ARMCHAIR_QB_-_Profess

Can you buy something used to hold you over for the moment? Next year, OLED's are coming out in the big screen sizes...and if you've ever seen one (Samsung Galaxy S smartphones with AMOLED for example) they are something else. You need a jeweler's loupe just to make out the individual pixels. Yeah, yeah, you've heard this song before...but I'd wait if you can. I bought a used 37" HD LCD two years ago to replace our completely fuzzed-out CRT, knowing darn well OLED was in the pipeline. Trust me it'll be worth the wait if you can hold out. [:-*]

You rarely see La Scala's from 1990 on-up for sale in the used market. []

1 Speakercraft Bass Power 250 for $125 (used)

Okay, just got back from the store. They didn't have the SC-57, only the SC-55. The 55 sports the same amplifier and is what I was interested in checking out anyways. The crux was that they had it plugged into a Mythos SSA5 sound bar, so it was boiled down to a near-field listening session. I doubt they had the MCACC configured. I made sure it was getting a digital source, HDMI in this instance, and dropped in some familiar stuff on CD. Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straights...Very good. Then I tried a couple tracks I knew weren't produced very well. Bjork "All is full of love" and Lenny Kravitz "Can't get you off my mind" Checking to see if it would BBQ the already nasty mids and treble of these two. No glaring issues there. Then I dropped in some Chemical Brothers "Another world" and Skrillex "With you, friends" to see how it could resolve the complex synth of these melodies. They came across as smooth as a dome tweeter will let them. All in all a very pleasing sound. That's it sports an honest 20 dB of power gain is simply gravy. The receiver itself is huge. No point in being that large IMHO other than to support the half-billion interconnects on the rear panel I suppose. The one thing I was looking for was that liquid midrange and treble that is the hallmark of the XR series which I currently employ. Although I couldn't hear any fault, only strapping one into my system would tell me for certain. Interesting to note that Pioneer christened their D3 chip amp AVR's with the same jersey numbers of the acclaimed Panasonic lineage.

As of now myself, not yet. Oddly enough, I'll actually be heading over to the local brick and mortar tomorrow for a listen. If I'm lucky, I can get them to let me audition one in-home.

What's your location? You should buy the sub I have for sale.[] See: http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/t/149697.aspx You've got the ceiling space for it. Even with the price of a darn good sub amplifier, you'd be well under $1000.

How would you recommend I accomplish this?