Prettty nice summary of the 80.2 strenghts.


I still have a couple of crazy "high end" shops around the Chicago area that I occaisionally get a chance to stop into. You know, the kind of place where most of even the two channel speakers cost more than a used car and some approach the price of a house. These places are getting pretty big on the high resolution sound files band wagon. They are also increasingly embracing some of the "boutique" sound processing, things like TACT would fit in, as would DEQX, Trinnov and Lyngdorf. Personally I have never met anyone other than a dealer that has such a sum sunk into their system, and believe me I know way more people that earn a ton more money than me, so I really wonder who does spend their dough on this stuff (I do know more than few folks with cars deep into the six figures, so the money is out there...) and I doubt that a tiny value oriented firm like Outlaw OR a huge mass market firm like Onkyo /Integra or Denon/Marantz will ever be able to work effectively with firms that have processors in the mega buck realm.

I do suspect that more and more content type devices (live BluRay player manufacturer / marketers) will continue to expand their offering in the high resolution streaming solution offerings arena. That will happen VERY fast...