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My  :2c: Never trust Sony power ratings ,lately they have decided to for the big "RMS" numbers. Having a look at the back of the Sony 1040 it is only rated at a Total of 240W The Onkyo 616 however is rated at 620W You cannot get more out than you put in. Except SONY :sh1tstirrer: 

Should make any MP3 sound smooth!! :ROFLMAO:

I think the word would be Transcoding and not decoding Transcoding =HD Audio to PCM or to DTS    ie -Decoded but then encoded again Decoding = getting it ready for the DAC IC's to understand So if it arrives at the receiver in digital the receiver is decoding If the player gives it out in...

The use of a Nvidia Cuda gpu in audio is also a possibility -THINK 100th order realtime active X-over :drool:

There are 2 more things you can try Turn off step-speed in the bios -this option lowers the speed of the cpu to save power Turn off Hyper threading in the bios sometimes this helps , otherwise do a copy speed test on the laptops as 80% of a laptops speed is determined by  the HDD

The only reason there is any discussion about a new format is because someone wants to make money on licencing. Most players can do FLAC and it is as easy to use as MP3. It is also not limited by "sky-high 96KHz at 24 bits" :BWAHAHAH: It can do anything -what you put in ,you get out- only the...

I think I should get me a spare one!! Last night it took me all of 60 seconds to add my Lexicon and Onkyo on my harmony 300.

There is no difference if you leave them  on or switch them off from a possible damage side as they have a external switch mode psu. The psu will absorb any possible damage from Eskom.(well at least 99.9%) Also those amps are very efficient so i would say if you are not going to plug out the...

What software came with the writer?

Thanks, I'll contact them today :thumbs:

The Creative card is quite good and one thing you could try is running the analog out to your multi channel input on your receiver. The card can decode most of the new formats and you might be surprised by the sound quality even in stereo!

I have been slowly moving to a active(front only) surround setup that consists of the following. Asus Oplay running optical to a Lexicon DC1. From there I run the front channels to a Behringer CX3400 active x-over (2 way mode) then to the multi channel input of a Onkyo TX806. Of the Onkyo's 7...

Logitech Harmony is no more!  :walled: I have been looking for a remote for a client and none of the suppliers in SA stock them any more,even the online shops are out of stock. And no more stock will be coming in. And then I found the following...

Logitech Harmony is no more! :walled: I have been looking for a remote for a client and none of the suppliers in SA stock them any more,even the online shops are out of stock. And no more stock will be coming in. And then I found the following...

I see it has a switch mode psu and it only has one large mains smoothing Cap -therefore it will not have a 110-220v switch This config is auto sensing. If it had 2 large smoothing caps it would have a switch.