Posts by Phil Rose

If you venture to the Vinyl forum on the Audio Asylum website you will get a great deal of help since there is a large Thorens following there.

Quote: Heard that MIT Terminator 2 is good for the 803's Hmm... what else? Personally, I'd avoid any cable that employed a matching network like the plague. As for what is best?? The sky is the limit. Nordst,...

Quote: A brief explanation of what superposition is Phil is as follows. Thanks its been a while since my BSEE but, I do remember what superpostion is. RobertR contends that 20KHz is all you need to reconstruct...

Quote: I guess that we'll agree to disagree.

Quote: within the bandwidth limit of the system DVD-A and SACD are capable of wider bandwdith than CD. Therefore, the reproduction of Quote: "complex waveforms" which constitute music are merely...

Quote: A higher sampling rate does not mean that the original analog is more “accurately represented”. Chu is right. The Nyquist theorem proves that the waveform WILL be accurately represented as longer as you sample at...

If excellent 2-channel is what you want then the Bryston will work quite nicely. If you are only concerned about DD & DTS then you have many more choices that are very good. I went a different route and got a good 2-channel...

I use Bryston 7B-STs for my mains and an ATI AT1505 for center and surround duties. The center is bi-amped, the surrounds are mono-amped and one amp channel is spare. Speakers are B&W N802-mains, HTM1-center, N804-surrounds. There...

Take a look at the Lexicon MC-8 which can be found for about what you are considering. Great machnine!

The new Denon 5900 is a good all-round universal player that seems to be getting high marks from critical buyers. From a standard DVD player you can get a 5.1 mix out of a DVD-A via your HT decoder however, this won't be the hi-rez...