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Name:
  Bill Alford
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  Composers mainly from about Bach onwards till today, with the exception of most of Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms and Mahler. I'm very partial to Mozart and the excellent orchestrators. Because I'm an atheist, I won't listen to anything religious.
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  Little Hartley, NSW, Australia
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  googong@ozemail.com.au
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Multichannel SACD - what's the real lowdown?
February 1, 2008
I'm not surprised at your results. I used to listen in stereo in a large room and I wanted to put everything at the maximum distance apart in that room to enjoy the widest stereo sound field. Multichannel listening somewhat limits the choice of positioning things in a room but as I do a lot of stereo listening to RBCDs I'd prefer that the surround ... more
Multichannel SACD - what's the real lowdown?
February 1, 2008
There are no such SACD players that I know of because most SACD players are universal players. I possibly recall a discussion on this forum in the last few months at least about the few SACD players which do direct DSD to analog conversion without going through the PCM stage (eg the early Sony SACD players) and it would take some searching to find ... more
Multichannel SACD - what's the real lowdown?
January 30, 2008
It looks like I'll have to put things in plain language and if I make any mistakes here I'll be corrected. There are two main types of digital to analogue converters (DACs) for the sampling rate of red book compact disc (RBCD) players (16 bits/44.1kHz): resistive ladder DACs and sigma delta DACs (from the mathematical jargon, sigma delta means the ... more
Multichannel SACD - what's the real lowdown?
January 30, 2008
The same here. I know that this hardware is hard to find and I'll have to compromise on the SACD player and get a modified universal player and the multichannel ONLY preamp I'm getting made up by an electronics technician. The multichannel ONLY preamp will have its earthing arranged to fit in with an already existing stereo system ie its earthing ... more
Nielsen Symphonies anyone?
January 30, 2008
In addition to this I'd like to add all of Nielsen's orchestral music over and above his symphonies eg his concertos. ... more