Recent content by Mr.Satyre

This reminds me I need to get my Pioneer PD-70AE repaired.

Before the digital days, nothing would get under my skin more than tearing a vinyl sleeve or watching the spine of the album cover start to wear out. Arch! 😅

Alas, no. I have a small collection I add to occasionally, but rarely listen.

No idea about this brand, but I've been a big fan of another German brand, Magnat, which produced my current turntable, the MTT-990. Beautiful piece of gear, and criminally never given a chance in the US market. Hopefully Rekkord has lots of success with Vana.

Only what I've read in the distant past!

On the one hand, I'm sorry, but on the other hand if I hadn't been let go, ART would absolutely have been part of the mix, so...

I am extremely skeptical that Dirac ART will be added, due to strong antipathy at Onkyo for that technology, and PAC goes where Onkyo steers.

THX is a body of recommended performance, placement and room design/treatments, such as "can this speaker and amplifier produce this SPL to the listening position(s) within a given range of frequencies and distortion levels on demand consistently?" and so on. That's not a THX quote, FYI, that's...

Apologies for the duplicate replies.

The additional wiring in the 805 for its balanced I/O, some might argue, could affect the the sound, was what I was getting at. THX curves can be applied to any speaker. THX is not in itself a driver, or cabinet design, that all THX-certified products share, but rather that they meet specific...

The additional wiring in the 805 for its balanced I/O, some might argue, could affect the the sound, was what I was getting at. THX curves can be applied to any speaker. THX is not in itself a driver, or cabinet design, that all THX-certified products share, but rather that they meet specific...

The 70 and 805 are mechanically identical, save for the extra 10W per channel in the 805, and not counting the differences in balanced connections. They both use the same DACs. If, perhaps, your friend is a fan of the THX modes in the 70, that could explain his preferences as far as cinematic...

Dirac Live Full Bandwidth is baked in to the 805 no matter what. It would be entirely up to Dirac to block your (or any) Dirac-enabled product on their end for you to "lose" it one day, and there'sno conceivable reason for that to occur; all licensing fees were paid in full years ago by us...

Having Dirac Live Full Bandwidth included in the box is a huge deal. As of this writing, I don't know of anyone doing that, and it seems exceedingly unlikely it will continue in Onkyo/Integra products going forward after 2026 (future Pioneer-branded AVRs being effectively non-starters).