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JohnChu, You will if you are in Ontario still pay both the GST and the PST. And if you ship via UPS ground you will be hit with a brokerage fee which will add up. I repeat that 6ave.com will not ship to Canada if you look at their web page. They will not accept anything other than US...

JohnChu, In order to get the 6ave.com deal on the 3803 (and the deal is still going as far as I know) you have to look at the 3802 on 6ave which they claim they have in stock (but they do not have in stock!:) and what happens is they immediately substitute the 3803 for the 3802. I...

Not so easy here. For warranty purposes something like www.etronics.com will result in you having no warranty. www.6ave.com are Denon authorised retailers but they do not ship to Canada. I do not know what will happen if you have a US product and you need warranty service. Do you want to ship it...

JohnPop, I definitely will not downgrade from the current 2803 but the Sennheiser HD-600s are extremely revealing of audio sources - a lot more than speakers costing several thousand dollars. I will probably add a headphone amp in the next few months but I have found that with the Denon the...

Tom Boz, I have the Denon 2803 (a week old) and I am very happy with it but I have an upgrade itch (to the 3803 but not for the S-Video etc "upconversion") - more for the sake of spending more. That said, I do not see any value at all in the video upconversion unless you are really in a...

Thanks for the reply but I am somewhat wedded to this store who have allowed me all sorts of upgrades at full price, even when they have been custom cables. The deal I am offered is very fair from a Canadian perspective but looks bad in the US where the 3803 often is just $200 more. Peter

I am contemplating upgrading from a new Denon 2803 (which I am really happy with) to a 3803 but in Canada the price discrepancy at normal retail is C$800 and even getting a good deal the disparity is still some C$600 - some US$450 or so additional. In my current situation I cannot even get to...

MichaelSLB, I looked at your link to the new Marantz and coincidentally I had a similar Sound and Vision spec report on my current Denon AVR-2803 which I will probably be upgrading in the next couple of days to a 3803. What I found noticeable was the higher noise levels of this undoubted...

I calibrated mine today with the Radio Shack SPL meter and using the test tones (tomorrow I will use VE) and I found that with my Polk RTI35s for fronts for example I had to boost them by 1.5 dbs to get the reference 75 dbs at 0 db. The Polks have a sensitivity of 89 dbs. The surrounds were...

Thanks for the reply. I am sure you are correct. Just whenever I get new equipment I become super sensitive - actually paranoid - and start looking for problems. It would appear that in the absence of problems I feel something must be wrong :) I will leave well enough alone. Peter

Thanks Harry for the reply. Not at all and with the reset of the receiver everything is at defaults. No DRC (set to off), all channels levels at 0, no attentuation at all anwhere. Peter

I have purchased a Denon AVR-2803 just a few days ago and have been happy with it but suddenly a problem has cropped up which I cannot fathom the cause. Irrespective of the source, be it DVD or Digital Cable Box, I am finding that I am having to crank up the levels far higher than normal...

Another alternative for an excellent interlaced DVD player is the Panasonic RV-80. Several reviews around on it. It dates back probably to 2001 or perhaps 2000 and was always seen here and at AVS forum as a highly capable interlaced player. I bought this player in order to match it with my Iscan...

I feel quite confident that quite a few other cable companies would be able to obtain "ISF certification" if they chose to pay the ISF the requisite fee for certification. I am a great supporter of the goals of the ISF but in my opinion the prime, but definitely not sole purpose, of this...

In Europe they measure TV screens differently. They advertise a TV set as having a 36" screen when that is the diagonal edge to edge. In North America they advertise only the viewable area. A 36" European TV is the same size as a North American 34". Peter ------------------

On the TV set press Action and Power at the same time and hold for several seconds. After this, if it does not shut down turn off the power at the TV set. I believe this should solve your problem although why your TV, when turned on, should be in service mode is a bit of a concern, perhaps as to...

For those who may be interested, Michael TLV (Michael Chen) is doing an ISF calibration tour of Seattle and Vancouver. The dates are as follows: Seattle: August 12-16 Vancouver: August 17-20 There is also a notice posted on this at www.keohi.com/keohihdtv So far, 6 calibrations have been...

The reason why the S-Video out looks poor compared to RF (or composite) is that all the digital cables boxes (whether made by General Instrument/Motorola or Scientific Atlanta) have extremely rudimentary Y/C separation, analogous to a really cheap glass comb filter. It would be preferable for...

Randall, You mention a "slight -" and I am assuming this is something geometric. I really should mention that if it is of the order of say 3/16th of an inch or less this is really something quite acceptable. A 1/4" I would find distracting (and I am *awfully* picky when it comes to geometry...

I too am very interested in this TV (a long story, I really feel I need real estate) but I am somewhat concerned in that two ISF calibrators have advised me that with Panasonic RPTVs, for example the PT-56WXF95, they are deemed quite disappointing with excessive signal processing (eg edge...

One problem that arises with the alleged resolution of the Panasonic is seen when one looks at last year's 56" model (PT-56WXF95) specs at the Panasonic Canada web site. It too claims 850 lines (per picture height) but when one looks at the "technical specs" it "boasts" of a "wide band video...

Andrew, I read your earlier post a few hours ago on but I had no time to do a reply. On reading that, I immediately said to myself that they have dumped a floor model on you as no way are new factory-sealed sets filthy. I see by your latest post that this is indeed the case. Personally, I...

David, I just did a search for Duvetyne and Toronto with Google and I came up with this link: http://www.sourceshop.com/expendables.html It mentions 12 oz duvetyne. There was another link but I am not sure if they sell this or not: http://www.psps.com/Toronto-Expendable.htm Contact these...

Andrew, I was speaking to Panasonic Canada last week with respect to another DVD player and I asked them about the HX41. Apparently the HX41 has arrived at the warehouse in Vancouver but the units have not been distributed to the stores yet. Peter

The DCT-2000s come either with both S-Video and digital coax audio outputs, or neither. I have 2 boxes which have both and they came like this from the factory. I would be extremely surprised if the cable company did any retrofitting and I would bet money on it that this is not done in the...

Andrew, Nice to see things have worked out well so far. One point I would make is that I would be extremely surprised if you received the HX41 this month. I may be wrong but the last information I received, which was not long ago at all, was that the earliest one could expect the new models...

Would someone please advise where exactly they have read that the F38310 has caught fire? I do remember reading here or on avsforum where there was one individual who posted on the TV and mentioned, very tongue in cheek to me, that it was recalled due to being prone to catching fire. This...

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