A good, relatively inexpensive AV receiver is not perfect. It's not right up to the highest audiophile standards. But it comes a lot closer than most of us are comfortable admitting.
Tim
And as much as an order of magnitude less expensive!
A good, relatively inexpensive AV receiver is not perfect. It's not right up to the highest audiophile standards. But it comes a lot closer than most of us are comfortable admitting.
Tim
If you like Jesse Cook, you must check out Ottmar Liebert.
Ron: Any specific album to start with?
I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about the quality of that AVR receiver. Some friends of mine, who own a very good little British hifi company just acquired a Yamaha RX-V667 to test both their active and passive speakers' use in surround sound. Naturally, they wanted to test the Yamaha first. It tested very well in measurements and listening, from the preamp outs and the speaker terminals, both directly and through speakers, the characteristics of which they know very well, to say the least. Push the little blue "Pure Direct" button on the front and it does even better in stereo. I think the law of diminishing returns in audio begins much lower than most audiophiles imagine. A good, relatively inexpensive AV receiver is not perfect. It's not right up to the highest audiophile standards. But it comes a lot closer than most of us are comfortable admitting.
Tim
Same here. John started a thread on RD about ;'is it ever done?' after a conversation we had at the small GTG at Pauls not long before Bathurst. Basically it was that for several years I had a very simple and modest system of decent components that I changed nothing in for about 10 years. I bought a ton of music through this period and was content and I felt no need to change anything; this is what I'm trying to get to now. I also never 'listened critically' through this time that I recall, rather I just listened.Yet, I want to somehow get away from the 'gear'. Again, it seems it is only me here. It does not appear to have the same effect on others.
I use the forums as entertainment and amusement, and from a very few posters, new and/or useful technical information and sometimes parts for projects. Audiophiles are an amusing lot.The thing I DO find fascinating from being on a forum is the 'human psychology' factor. I am very much an observer, and what a fertile field to observe!! hahaha