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I don't know about the company you mention but the presence on the market of a device to cure a high-end sound "problem" does not historically imply that the "problem" exists. Indeed, devices to cure non-existent problems can do quite well in the marketplace.

FWIW, Ben, I had the same thought when I first read those reviews. I really have two concerns. One is the heavy emphasis on handling poorly-mastered DVD content smoothly. The other is how the objective test results somehow morph into reification of chipsets into the defining factor in choosing a...

I spent a goodly proportion of my spare time for a couple years once upon a time in a high-end audio store a friend of mine ran. After a while, I could "hear the difference" in everything from cables to power conditioners to what kind of metal was used in the little spikes holding the speakers...

Ben Hanrahan said:

As for one DVD player having a warm color bias versus another and so forth, don't most people calibrate their display/player combination at the same time? By which I mean that you hook up the DVD player to the TV and use Avia or Video Essentials to calibrate the TV. While there could still be...

While I agree that the "shootouts" go overboard in the emphasis on oddball deinterlacing performance, that doesn't mean the RP82 doesn't deliever a fine picture. It doesn't have any of the annoying flicker or chroma bugs that a lot of players have, it seems to give very rich, accurate color...