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The tweeters definately work. The question is do they work as good as they used to? ...can they be damaged or just broken? I mean I don't hear distortion or anything so its probably placebo, right? ...maybe i'm loosing my hearing

I own a pair of Swan M200’s (http://www.theaudioinsider.com/cgi-b...er/SWM200.html) hooked up to a Denon AVR-85 through Pre-amp inputs, which is hooked up to my PC sound card through a digital coaxial cable. I have accidentally put these speakers through some abuse: 1. I turned on the radio...

But I plan on playing stereo 24-bit 192 khz. Why would I need 5 speakers?

I want to hook up my computer to the budget home theatre system I'm about to build. My receiver will probably be a Denon AVR 1800, my DVD Audio/Video Player is a Pioneer DV-578A, my CD changer is an ancient Sony CDP-C435, and my computer is where most of the music will come from and it will be...

there's always a delay thats why they have buffers

matt-f, It would not make any sense why ECC would not be implamented. It is simple and very effective

Makes sense now. A TOSLINK cable is more susceptible to corruption and therefore can overload the error correction circuitry buffers. This can create a bottle neck from the correction circuitry to the DAC which can result in frames being dropped. This seems possible. If it is then it would not...

John, you are correct. But a digital signal does not get distorted like an analog signal. It is either the correct signal or the corrupt signal. Not a kind-of correct signal. AFAIK digital audio signals have error correction and do use error-correcting algorithms (although I could be wrong)...

Yes its BS and your salesman probably doesn't even know what bandwith is or why on earth it would ever affect audio quality, LOL 1. Okay, actual 1's and 0's are not transimed but electrical pulses representing them are. Think morse code -thats a digtal signal. Think of a DVD player sending...

Even if the digital signal on the coaxial cable would be distorted (maybe by a gamma ray burst from space or a nuclear holocaust - because it is HIGHLY unlikely) the hardware has error correction mechanisms. So if it gets 1010011X101 it can figure out what X is. The only reason why one might...

Ehm, I'm a little confused. Don't both the optical and coaxal send DIGITAL (1010100111011) signals - which are then converted to an analog signal by the DAC? There sould be no difference since BOTH optical and coaxal should be immune to distortion and interference. It's like saying when you...

"http://reviews.cnet.com/Pioneer_DV_578A_S/4505-6473_7-30917074-4.html?tag=top" This partially answered my question: "Please note: Before you buy this or (almost) any other DVD-A/SACD player, make sure your A/V receiver has 5.1/multichannel analog inputs. The 578A's multichannel analog...

I'm thinking of running the coaxal digital out to my sound cards input. That way my sound cards DAC will be used and not Pioneeres (right?). This is more convienient then me moving my speakers. Will this work? I won't loose signal quality due to distance since the PCM stream will remain digital...

Thanks guys! I was actually looking at the Pioneere 578AS They have it at Best Buy for $99 and they usually have %15 off coupons that I'll wait for. It will come out to like $90 after tax, not bad. I think I'll keep the sound card though it's a great card. Maybe some time in the future the...

It doesn’t work. I have an M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 sound card and Diva Swan M200 studio monitors. The sound card supports 24bit/96Khz (which is the main reasons I bought it). The software, however, does not. The only software capable of playing the DVD-A layer (AUDIO_TS) of audio DVDs’ is...

The quality is amazing though it definitely is like "looking through a window". An adult film would be nice in HD. Like looking through a neighbors windows.

i guess there's no cheap way out

yet another reason to build an HTPC

forget teh formats. You know what a 1080P capable display costs?

Suprisingly they actually work pretty well on my PC with a little skipping. I have a 2.1Ghz P4 512MB ram and a radeon 9800Pro. Try using media player 10. I can't imagine why it would crash your PC.

The sound card doesn't decode or encode anything. It's a mixing-recording card. The decoding would have to be done in software (which exists) which is fine since my PC is running at 2.1 Ghz with 512MB ram. This card is capable of accepting a 24-bit 96KHz PCM stream and decoding it into analog...

HD DVD Samples from Microsoft Take a look at these HD DVD even encoded to WMV format is amazing. Too bad you need at least a 3GHZ CPU to play back 1080I and 1080P.

Here are the links to my speakers: Swan M200 Audioholics Review 3D Sound Surge Review And this is the sound card I plan to buy: Audiophile 2496

I'm not talking the ones that "up-sample" the standard DVD disk to 1080i. I'm talking about being able to play back 1080P HD DVD disks.

Probably for DVD-A playback that 24/96

In my audio options menu I have an audio output choice and one of them is 24/96 PCM, still no? Please excuse the stupid questions i'm new to this.

I raped google trying to find an answer to this. There is none.

Don't bother killing yourself over this like I did. XP does this and it is unown why. I have tried a fresh install, disable every service I possible can, disabled virtual memory, all logging, and still it acesses my drive for a reasons beyond me.

I think i'll try to hook up these speakers to my Toshiba DVD player and try it for myself. Can any DVD player with a 24-bit DAC play back DVD-A disks in 24/96?

I was about to purchase that yesterday but then realized I can't play SACD's on my PC.