In Reply to: if you check out the following link ... posted by Christine Tham on August 11, 2005 at 13:49:56:
In general, I really don't think the quality of DVD sources requires more than 24 bit floating point architecture. By the way, I listened to the AV8 when I bought my "new" system, and it was by far the weakest of the pre-pros I listened to: the 5.1 analog sounded particularly bad. The Lexicon MC-8 didn't impress me much either. There are (or were) some much more impressive pre-pros you haven't mentioned: Bel Canto, EAD and Sim Audio (modified EAD) in particular.
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Follow Ups
- The wall shelf will make your vinyl sound as good as DVDs! - Jim Pearce 07:49:50 08/12/05 (3)
- Not necessarily - Christine Tham 15:50:02 08/12/05 (2)
- You are right Christine, I meant a 24 bit mantissa... - Jim Pearce 08:13:31 08/15/05 (1)
- No. they are 24-bit fixed point, but have a 48-bit accumulator - Christine Tham 14:32:55 08/15/05 (0)