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In Reply to: RE: Burdened by speaker management duties? posted by dbphd on July 08, 2014 at 12:39:39
"I've compared DSD with PCM from my Oppo 105, and I'd guess my ability to identify which is which in a blind test would be about chance, so the Oppo does speaker management."
The Oppo can do speaker management in PCM but it need not. One cannot blame speaker management for being an issue when you can bypass it.
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I guess I didn't make myself clear. I doubt doing speaker management infringes on the sound of the Oppo 105, but I mentioned it for those who might think it does. The Oppo can't do both speaker management and DSD, so when I compared its DSD and PCM output of SACDS it obviously wasn't doing speaker management. I choose to have it do speaker management, because it's the only component I have that will do it. The Oppo in effect is my processor; the JC-2 is an analog stereo preamp that I use to select among sources. I do have a pair of Velodyne SMS-1s that I use with a pair of HGS-15s for LF acoustic room correction.
db
I've been listening for several weeks now to stereo using the Ayre C-5xeMP. It's superb as expected with DSD; what was unexpected was the improved sound with CDs. I've settled on the Ayre for stereo and the Oppo 105 for surround and HT, and, until Oppo adds acoustic room correction to its product, I think I'm through buying disc players. The Sony XA5400ES is in the living room system, and shares a Proceed PAV/PDSD with an Oppo 95. The system uses a Proceed Amp 2 and a pair of KEF 102/2s, stuff I've had for decades that still sounds pretty damn good.
db
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