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I have the last 80 gb PS3 model that also plays SACDs. It is my blu-ray player for the "man-cave" and it also gets (very) occasional use as a game machine for my kids (couple of hours per weekend and not every week).   I very much enjoy my PS3 for its many features, speed of operation and...

I've been "red" since Christmas 2007 but I'm now "purple". Picked up an apparently rare MGS4 PS3 bundle (sprang for that one because I wanted SACD playback capability and my wife likes the flash card reader for photos). Future Shop in Canada has a batch, if anyone is looking. I gave a lot of...

Just curious as to what others here would do. I have a non-HDMI receiver that I have no plans to replace for, at the very least, three (I hope five) years. As such, to fully benefit from the advanced audio codecs, I require a player that decodes them all internally and then sends them out via a...

I have a duplicate of this (unopened) owing to a gift mixup. I would, ideally, like a trade for another HD DVD. I have the following (to avoid more duplicates): 12 Monkeys 2001: A Space Odyssey The Adventures of Robin Hood Aeon Flux American Gangster The Big Lebowski Blade Runner...

Everyone in the house is sick (I'm at the tail end--the kids (2 and 6) and mother are in the thick of it) so I had to be nearby, especially for the little one. This meant no retreating to the HT room with the full audio/visual extravaganza. Rather, I spent the night (after the hockey game, of...

I get a menu function that is not in my owner's manual? I have something called RGB ? (don't remember and I'm not in the same room as the HT). It allows me to select normal or enhanced. I checked the manual to see what that does and it's not listed in the manual as a function. Just curious (I...

I had a somewhat strange experience a few nights ago. I rented Amazing Grace (a solid, if somewhat hagiographic, film about William Wilberforce's efforts to get legislation banning the slave trade within the British Empire through Parliament--a nearly 30 year effort). The DD mix was awful. The...

I picked up the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes in the cheap DVD bin a few weeks ago and watched it last night. Had the strangest thing happen. It has an "enhanced viewing mode" that flashes a symbol on the screen where you can break from the film to watch a short clip explaining an effects shot...

I took the plunge this week and ordered a Sony AW15 (after much research and a bit of agonizing). This is my first HT projector (I've monkeyed around with a couple of office projectors from my wife's office, as well as the one at the college where I teach, but none of them are aimed at HT). I...

As I've been considering various projector possibilities, I came across the BENQ W500 last week. In my budget and in my room I am restricted to LCD projectors because I absolutely require vertical and horizontal lens shift (unknown on DLPs under 3000$ US). If I were stateside, my short list...

Yesterday I was in a local Best Buy for a bit while running some errands. I went in to take a look at some DLP RPTVs to see if the rainbow effect that I found so objectionable on my wife's office projector was a problem for me with ANY DLP device or just that projector. Well, after looking at 5...

I spent several hours yesterday making my first serious examination of HD displays (first of many, before I pull the trigger) and while looking at various RPTVs (DLP, LCoS and LCD) I noticed a "shimmering" effect that looked like specks of dust or graininess. This included the top of the line...

Last night I made a mockup of a 52 inch screen and placed it in my room to see if A) it would fit and B) if it would overwhelm my field of vision from the prime seat (I usually sit no closer than half way to the screen in a cinema, and frequently further than that. I don't like to move my eyes...

My room is quite dark (only a small basement window that is easily blocked) and because of space limitations and room orientation, the maximum screen size I can use is 50 inches (55 at the outside). I'm in the early stages of researching possible replacement options for my trusty 32 inch SD WEGA...

than the LCD TVs (flat panel or rear projection) that I've seen so far? I just spent a week camping and brought my 3 1/2 year old Powerbook 15" widescreen along for "rainy day" movie watching with the kids (and for myself). I've only used it for movie watching very sparingly, and without any...

NO burn in--OAR means OAR and I watch a lot of old films--I will NOT stretch the image. NO motion blurring (or as little as possible--so far, LCD, to my eyes, seems to suffer the most from this problem, but I've not looked at the MOST expensive sets). DEEP BLACKS and GOOD SHADOW DETAIL--a...

I have a room that is 10x22, that, while not a perfect rectangle, is pretty close. I have acoustic drop ceiling tiles (already there when I moved in--5/8" thick made of fibreglass--the yellow stuff like the Owens 703, just thinner). The "rear" of the room (behind the listener) is curtained off...

I posted this on a British forum but got little reaction (though an earlier debate in that same forum revealed a serious antipathy toward MCH music). I put this to you all and ask for comments. Regardless of preference for two channel vs MCH and the level of equipment one has on hand, I...

I put in the new Phil Collins concert DVD and whenever crowd noise got loud (end of a song, usually) I heard a strange staticky burst from the left rear channel. I tried switching between DD and DTS, still the same problem. Then I noticed THX Cinema was still on (my front left speaker blocks my...

Yesterday, I had the house to myself for a rare moment and decided to inaugurate a new SACD of Schubert and Dvorak from Telarc. Recorded at a live venue in England, in DSD, I assumed a high quality recording. I decided to push the volume level beyond my usual -25dB from reference (calibrated...

it does as a full-fledged receiver? I have an Integra DTR 6.4 and since the temperature has dropped in my basement room (winter is almost here), I've noticed a noise (I've posted about a similar noise in the past, but I determined, after extensive trial and error, that it was related to video...

I bought a stack of these in Paris and just got home day before yesterday. Popped three of them in the system today and played them through. The performances are wonderful, can't fault them (was not familiar with these particular discs until the news about them a few months ago). I did notice...

I just bought seven hi-res discs in Paris (five SACD and two DVD-A) and they cost me 66 euro (about 100 CDN dollars). The same discs would cost me, at home, about double. :angry: :angry: Too bad I can't carry all the discs I'd like to get.

And how would I go about it? I'm pretty sure I've seen, somewhere, an integrated amp (like the Arcam A65+ or Cambridge Audio 640A--though these particular ones may not have what I'm talking about) that had a pass through switch that effectively allowed one to use the integrated in two channel...

Here's a link to the article citing a Warner's rep. M/C music article Here is the relevant quotation:

Last night, while moving my sub around the room to find the best sounding bass, I tried something for the first time and I am confused as to the meaning of the result. A while back I plotted my bass response curve using only the sub (had to disconnect the front mains) but I used a series of test...

Here is a plot of my bass response curve. I used the Snapbug Excel worksheet with the Radio Shack corrections. The blue line plots my response from the listening position, vol. set to 0dB (the automatic reference volume of my Integra receiver--my speakers are calibrated to 75dB (also the...

I have an Integra DTR 6.4. I came across a forum that mentions a "ticking problem" after I bought it. I had one incident of a strange digital feedback noise that I believe was caused by a faulty connection. Since setting up in my new house (for about two weeks now) I haven't had that issue...

I just got a copy of DVE and used it to calibrate my analogue Sony Wega 32" KV32FS100 using my Cambridge Audio 540D DVD player. I've been using the player for audio only until Sunday night and last night I found picture setting controls in the setup menu. I'm much more of an audio guy so maybe...

Last night, I finally hooked up my gear in its dedicated room. It's ugly (cables visible everywhere, old tables and a/v racks for gear, etc.) but functional. No WAF involved, it's MY room. Anyway, I placed the speakers where I want them, did a quick calibration of the speakers with my Radio...