Butchgo,

I have both of those DVds. I agree, they are terrific. They sound best in surround mode yet I lsiten to SACDs in stereo mode.

I saw PF in Miami, 1987 at the Orange Bowl and I have a SBD recording of that show. In 1994, I saw they at Giants Stadium in Joosey when they played the entire DSOTM to open the second set. That was the first time (I think) they plyed DSOTM in many years. I also have that show as a very good sounding AUD recording.

I make Audio DVDs at 16 bit and 48 Khz where my Denon plays them and the sound is better than Cds.

We have similar HDTV's you and I. Mine is one size down and one model newer. The only difference is the color of the frame and the size. How do you like you LCOS?

Liz

tmdlp,

Again, you have given me good advice. You may recal you told me about Singal cables and I use the silver IC's with the bullets and the Sub cable , also with the Bullet RCA's.

I do have a Telarc SACD sampler that I took out from the library. The conctent is interesting. I like you use music yet I get an idea of the Telarc sound.

Love it.

Me too,


I find that the Plasmas and LCD's may look nicer with HD broadcats in the colors yet I find them not to seem real or lkife like The LCOS sony looks more like what I see with the naked eye

The Rolling Stones "Let it Bleed" SACD arrived today. Most of the rock cds from that time sound like crap yet the performance is so good. The SACD is like the LP , the sound , tonal quality, etc.

SACD using DSD rules and makes Cds so like music.

Lizard King,

As you can probably guess from my signature, I prefer to listen to Hi-Rez formats in multi-channel. I recently purchased Ray Charles's, "Ray Sings Basie Swings" on SACD by TelArc and Ray's voice has never sounded so good. Can't believe his vioce was from a live performance recording done over 30 years ago. Also purchased the Ray Charles, "Genius Loves Company" on SACD and it blows away my CD version of the same. I also like Eric Clapton's, "Slow Hand", and Andrea Bocelli's, "Sentimento", if you are into opera. Another place for SACD purchasing is at MusicDirect.com.

Slbenz

Hi Slbenz,

You seem to have a nice system , esp the tube stuff. May I aak whay are you using a low end Oppo?

I suggest you get a high end player like me and get it modified to sound like analog.

I have heard the CD layer of Slowhand and was not impressed.

Let it bleed is a typical Rock album, a little forward yet what clear , great sounnd

Lizard King,

I thought of that most recently with my posting a question of modifying or go with Mye Stands for my Maggies. Ended up going with the Mye Stands. I like the Oppo for it's video performance and took care of the mediocre audio performance with the Channel Islands Audio VDA-2 and VAC-1 for 2-channel performance. I do realize that the stock Oppo is lacking in SACD and DVD-A since I used to own an APL Hi-Fi modded Pioneer 563A. I use Herbie's The Black Hole to help make it more analog sounding whether it is a CD, SACD, DVD-A or DVD-V. But if you read what the people at Reference Audio Mods say about my Oppo, they think it compares to the Marantz SA-11S1 a $3500 player. I would probably modify a more expensive player that uses more durable components than the Oppo for the next upgrade since my 1.5 year old Oppo is starting to have problems. After the Mye Stands arrive, I may be looking into upgrading the digital source. I mainly use a Sony CD megachanger for my 2-channel CD listening. It's linear power supply helps to make the Sony sound more analog than the Oppo with it's switching power supply going through the CIA DAC combo. Thanks for asking.

Slbenz

Slbenz,

My DEnon 3930CI has a linear power supply for the Audio section. The mod i have uses a discreet (No op amps) analaong output stahe what has in own power supply in a box outide of the unit and it uses a toroidal power transformer. I also have a high end clock. Trust me as i think you are an audiophile, you should get this down. PM me if you want to learn more.

Liz

Liz,

Thanks for the "audiophile" reference and I will eventually upgrade this source component if the wife will let me. I was just lucky to get the Mye Stands for my birthday. And after much discussion, I decided it was probably better to upgrade the speaker's performance before doing anything to the source. Also, if you have a chance, you may want to try some XRCD recordings. The ones that I heard so far can rival the best of SACDs and DVD-As on a neighbor's two channel system which consists of a Ayre CX-5SE player, Bruce Moore preamp, monoblocks and Genesis 6.1 speakers.