Archive for November, 2005
Monday, November 28th, 2005
Harman Kardon AVR 635 Firmware Update
Harman Kardon has released the long-awaited firmware update for their AVR 635 Receiver. The update resolves the following issues:
*If the incoming data stream is stopped while a digital audio source is playing, the AVR will now remember the last used surround mode and return to that mode when the stream resumes.
*Text messages have been [...]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Pioneer DV-79AVi DVD Player
Pioneer posted information on their website regarding their new top-of-the-line Elite DVD player, the DV-79 AVi. It includes a few important upgrades over the previous flagship DV-59AVi: upgraded chroma bug free MPEG decoder, HDMI 1.1, upgraded 10-bit VQE9 deinterlacer, and dual iLink ports.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Onix Rocket RS760 Speaker
AV123 has recently added information on their website for the upcoming speaker that replaces the venerable Rocket RS750, the Rocket RS760. The Rocket RS760 is a 3-way floorstanding design with an upper MTM arrangement which includes the well-regarded Vifa ring radiator tweeter flanked by two 5.25in aluminum woofers; two lower 6.5in woofers fill in [...]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
DIY Cable 2-Ch Hypex Amplifier Kit
DIYCable has begun offering a kit based on the Hypex UCD-180 amplifier modules. The basic kit will be priced at $495 and will include:
* Pair of UCD-180 Modules (AD or ST version).
* Hypex ST or HG Power Supply
* 330VA Transformer x2 115VAC [...]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
CIAudio VDA•2 24/192 DAC
Dusty of CIAudio has posted a thread on audiocircle with pictures and information of his new DAC, the VDA•2. It seems to be a significant upgrade from the VDA•1.
VDA•2 is a higher-end converter using a mild “slow roll-off” digital filter, and no analog filtering. Unlike NOS types, this reduces the sampling noise to inaudible [...]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
My Favorite Thanksgiving Movies
Another month…another favorite movies list…this time for Thanksgiving. With a stomach full of turkey and fixins and a house full of friends and family, I can’t think of a better way I would like to spend my Thanksgiving holiday than watching a good movie. Here are my favorite thanksgiving movies:
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Denon DVD-1920 Review
Members of AVSForum have posted their impressions of Denon’s newest budget ($369 MSRP) dvd player. The DVD-1920 features HDMI 1.1, DCDi by Faroudja deinterlacing, and Burr-Brown PCM-1738 192kHz/24-bit audio DACs which is quite impressive for this price range.
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
JVC RX-D702 Receiver Review
A member of AVSForum has posted detailed impressions of JVC’s latest hybrid amp receiver, the RX-D702.
the audio quality of the receiver is excellent to my untrained ears. There is no hiss at high volume levels during quiet movie passages, and I hear no distortion during very loud house rattling passages.
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
Adire Audio Apex Speaker
Al Wooley of RAW Acoustics has posted pictures of one of his customer’s speakers built from the Adire Audio Apex kit. Each Apex speaker features a RA104.5 ribbon tweeter, three CSS WR125S mids, and four Adire Extremis woofers aligned in a WMTMWWW configuration with the third WR125S mounted on the rear and run full [...]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
Denon AVR-3806 Receiver Review
There is a Denon AVR-3806 Receiver owners thread on AVSForum; members have commented on their experiences with Denon’s new budget receiver.
The good: SACD playback — the multichannel sound reproduction is wonderful (source is a Denon 1920). Also, Audyssey equalization has improved the acoustics considerably in my oddly-shaped home theater.
The bad: I’m sad to report that [...]
