Recent content by Gifford L

The amps are roughly the same internally. I was told by the rep that they are. It is interesting to note however that the Reference mono/stereo/and 3 channel models are rated at 220 watts and the new ones are rated at 200 watts. The main difference is balanced inputs, blue power lights, and...

Yes but it will not be available until next year. It will be a cost no object design but not in the 15k range. More like the 7k range featuring a full dual differential design with multiple processors offering much more in the room correction department. The amps will be digital. The chassis...

It's not going to cost even close to 1K more for the upgrade. That dealer or rep must have been smoking something.

So if bandwidth is the issue here what would you choose to have. The room EQ filter and very flexible bass management or non-global x-overs and say 6 popular x-over points and no room filtering?

Michael is right on. B&k has very flexible bass management and it should be fairly easy for any company to have non-global crossovers, but the truth is that with all the potential for combing effects it can do more harm than good. Giving people just one more thing to screw up. I would like the...

My rep says (who also reps anthem as well) that because of B&K's and Motorola's relationship they have the ability to do lots of backdoor stuff with the processing that others do not or will not have. Didn't have any specifics as this was a few months ago before we knew all the specifics. As...

Since the PS audio units were not that feasible for me and most people wanting to hook up a whole system I turned to balanced power as the next best alternative for power conditioning that is until I saw Link Removed Which does correct the sagging and clipped waveform coming from the wall all...

I stepped down to a 3802 for a time and enjoyed it. The difference isn't a big as some would have you believe.

They say they are authorized for everything they sell so if they are not that is bad. However I can't see how they can get away with the internet sales on that kind of a scale if they are since it isn't supposed to be allowed.

NO it has nothing to do with the clothing company at least I hope not. It will be more like a Krell or something along those lines as far as chassis and componentry. (ie. balanced, multiple DSP's, better parts etc.)

They are all Mass Market because they are mass produced on a large scale. BB and CC don't carry the 49tx but places like Ultimate Electronics do.

What Camp says is accurate. There is a new Gucci series coming out next year. The ref 40 should be out soon shortly before a DPLII upgrade but a lot of the waiting game is because of Motorola at this point. That said amplifiers don't really change and haven't for decades. Some of the earliest...

The coolest thing is that since these tube amps were all around the room when he turned out the lights it was pitch black except for what had to be over a hundred tube filaments glowing orange. Also emerging from pitch black was a very enveloping sound from everywhere.

Auto set-up of levels and delay like the HK and parasound are not what is going on here. He is talking about DSP room correction for nasty room modes. Auto set up would be nice but I wonder how accurate it can be in a sub 3K product. I mean to say that a descent Mic is expensive and so are...

It was Jed, Jim (this products designer and the inventor of DPLII) had all his speakers tri-amped using his own custom made tube amps that were placed all along the room. What was really interesting to me is that required long interconnects as you can imagine. For long interconnects he used...