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THX Games Mode Overview THX Games Mode Overview THX' new Games Mode is a brand new audio post-processing technology and listening feature for THX Certified Home Theatre components. Games Mode enables video game enthusiasts to experience truly…
What is Dolby Digital Surround? What is Dolby Digital Surround? Dolby Digital is the next step forward in sonic realism and listener involvement. It has already changed the way you experience your favorite films in movie theaters, and is now doing the same for…
Audio Lip Sync - The Next Big Feature? Audio Lip Sync - The Next Big Feature? In the "good ole days" of pre-HD CRT displays, audio and video processing took about the same amount of time resulting in almost no significant delay problems. Back then, no one had to worry about…
2003 Preamp-Processor and Receiver Wish List 2003 Preamp-Processor and Receiver Wish List In light of our most recent findings with many of today's receivers and preamp/processors, we have prepared a "wish list" to assist manufacturers in developing their next generation of products with…
Current Trends in the Recording Format Arena P1 Current Trends in the Recording Format Arena P1 As many of us have noticed over the past ten years or so, CD recording quality appears to be going on a downhill trend. Remarks are commonly made by consumers and professionals that many earlier…
Current Trends in the Recording Format Arena P2 Current Trends in the Recording Format Arena P2 SACD has no digital filter and relies totally on the analog low pass filter at the output of the DAC. This gives SACD a very distinct improvement in transient response vs. the standard CD. SACD also…
Brick Wall Digital Filters and Phase Deviations Brick Wall Digital Filters and Phase Deviations Over the years controversy has raged back and forth on whether brick wall filters used in digital audio (namely for CD playback systems) exhibit phase shifts in the audio band (20Hz to 20kHz). Audio…
Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 1 Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 1 Reprinted with the Permission of Christine Tham. Visit her very informative website at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/christie/ Diana Krall's The Look…
Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 2 Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 2 My previous comparison of 2-channel recordings of the title track of Diana Krall 's The Look Of Love on CD, DVD-A (Group 2 - MLP 2.0 96/24) and SACD (2-channel) versions yielded a surprise in…
Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 3 Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 3 Sometime ago you will recall I did two articles comparing stereo versions of Diana Krall's Look of Love on DVD-A (96/24), SACD (DSD) and CD (44.1/16). In Part 1 , I discovered that my recording of…