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I'd connect this to my 5 Epos bookshelf speakers and my 500 Watt subwoofer, replacing my 18 year old Yamaha RX-V2095 receiver.

I have an almost 20 year old Yamaha receiver that I bought when I graduated college. I have replaced many parts on it, which included soldiering/desoldier old parts. Now the bass/LFE channel only works selectively. It's time for a receiver designed for the 21st century.

For SACD multichannel you need 6 analog connections (LF, RF, C, RR, RL, LFE) between the source and the preamp. You can use the same connections for DVD, or you can use a digital connection of some kind.

In regard to filtering: it's not that it's easier to filter, it's that the filtering takes place in the frequency space above the human hearing range so that you're not losing any of the information in the audible range which does occur without upsampling. Whenever a digital source is...

You're going to get people who say: 1. It doesn't matter. 2. Optical is better. 3. Coax is better. My opinion: Coax is better. Optical connections are very cheap to make and include in a system. Most devices have them now, but not all have coax connections because they're more...

My guess would be that the statement does hold true, but that's just a guess. Perhaps you can use the email address above and ask Pioneer directly... [email protected]

Wayde: Many carousels won't shuffle different formats together. Might be worth checking out before you buy so you're not disappointed...

A speaker can very comfortably sit on a stand with a base place significantly smaller than its size: Click for large photo: Here's what the bottom looks like: These stands are made by Epos, specifically for the Epos ELS-3 speakers (not necessarily for the ELS-3C center channel...

Well said, however there is still some merit to doing "needle drops" and burning the content of records onto CD. Namely, the very nature of the vinyl medium makes the overall volume level lower and is better able to handle clipping. However because of the lower floor level, most vinyl is...

You can buy a Music Hall MMF-2.1 belt drive TT for about $250 new or probably under $200 used. Check Audiogon.com for used listings...

Jitter is a mismatch in time between a digital bitstream and a clocking signal. In other words, while the 1s and 0s coming from the source are all in the right order to recreate the music (or voice, or whatever), but the decoder timing is slightly off compared the reader. So the data is right...

The Music Hall MMF-7 and MMF-9 are both EXCELLENT "audiophile" turntables with dual speed motors. The MMF-7 is in the middle of your price range and the MMF-9 is at the top. Check them out here: www.musichallaudio.com I personally have a MMF-5 and love it...

If audio is your concern for M/C audio, then I strongly recommend somehow trying to put your center speaker at the same height as the left and right channels. I formerly had mine on top of my TV and it wasn't very stable. When I moved it down not only did I feel like it wasn't going to fall over...

Here's what I did with mine: (click for bigger pictures)

I bought a Panamax surge protector that has both overvoltage AND undervoltage protection. We had a nasty brown out here last year and the undervoltage protection came in handy...

6Mhz (the bandwidth of Toslink) is hundreds of nanoseconds between samples, whereas 500Mhz (the bandwidth of copper digital connections) is on the scale of nanoseconds which makes it much more capable of reducing jitter than Toslink.

Thomas' English Muffins. With all the talk here of everyone suing everyone else over trademark infringements I didn't want Thomas to sue me over the use of the term "nooks and crannies." :D

That's because dust gets sucked in by the cooling fan and then gets trapped in the nooks and crannies (Thomas: please don't sue me). The enclosed rack I have does get dust in it, but the swiffer solution keeps it from building up.

You're right, I'm sorry. I got this backwards. However, this doesn't mean that jitter doesn't exist. Further, jitter occurs on a much smaller time scale than the sampling rate of the CD player, so the two orders of magnitude difference between 6 MHz and 500 MHz can make a big difference in...

But unless you're creating an absolute vacuum, air has to get into the cabinet somehow to replace the air that you're blowing out. Most likely it's drawn in past the edges of the door. You don't say how much you want to spend, but my search for an enclosed cabinet (to keep the pets away from...

The best thing about speaker positioning is that it costs no money at all to try as many different combinations as you want. As others have said, start with an equilateral triangle... then play with the toe of the speaker. Once you've got the toe how you like it, try moving the speakers away...

Toslink is the cheapest form of digital transport (ie cheapest for a manufacturer to include). Coax is next on the ladder, and then you have to have a really high end transport and receiver before you even see some of the highest end connections. But Toslink is the worst interface...

John Pine: Have you thought about doing a comparison between Toslink and coaxial digital connections?

This is not entirely accurate. Many or most DVD-As have a DD and/or DTS track. This does not give you the high-resolution audio output for which the DVD-A was designed, however it does allow those who don't have multi-channel input capability to listen in multi-channel audio. In order to...