![]() I also now have Slysoft AnyDVD HD up and running, so I can play BD/DVDs from the hard drive or from the tray in the Pioneer BD drive I installed in the PC. Netflix Streaming, by the way, is way, way better in picture quality via JRiver Theater Mode than it was via the Oppo 93. A little bit of watching last night was beautiful. So, now I can watch and record cable TV without the cable box with 3 channel tuners from within JRiver. I have finally installed my HDHomerun Prime TV tuner with a Comcast cable card yesterday. I have not done a direct comparison to my Oppo 93, but it seems it might even be a better picture that more than satisfies my needs. This was necessary to cure a really annoying motion artifact on the TV when both displays were cloned. It was just changing the Display settings in Windows Control Panel to turn the cloning off. ![]() And, when the TV is turned off, the monitor automatically comes on. The PC still recognizes both, but if the TV is turned on, the monitor goes dark automatically. One was to run my TV and PC Monitor separately instead of cloned. It turns out I needed to do several things. I think I have mostly solved my video problems from the PC. But, this pretty much puts a cap on my efforts to provide an improved home listening and viewing experience, except for some further fine tuning. I am sure many have been dying to hear this update. I thought you might like to know what is happening. I have been pecking away at my PC and JRiver plus associated technologies. I leave that to competent, expert reviewers with proper equipment to measure. But, I feel reasonably sure that there would be significant measured differences there demonstrating the ExaSound's superiority via asynchronous USB. They are very complex and way beyond my capabilities for either proper measurement or interpretation. ![]() That points most likely to jitter and time-domain issues rather than frequency response. It is primarily imaging-related differences that I cited in my summary comments. Even if it were a simple question of frequency response differences, the ExaSound sounds obviously better, so why do I care? I doubt very seriously that those two setups had any difference in frequency response. (That is to be fixed in future software.) So, both the Dirac-Integra and the Dirac-ExaSound listening were done with exactly the same calibration and Dirac filters plus identical bass management in JRiver at the same sampling rate. If you read Kal's review, there is an issue of latency delay with Dirac and the ExaSound, meaning ExaSound cannot be used for calibration. And, note carefully that there was only one calibration of Dirac, that done via the Integra. On that subject, if you read my descriptions of what we heard, there is very little to suggest that frequency response issues played any significant role here. And, when you look at target curves, which have experimentally derived, psycho-acoustic-preference-based departures from pure flat response, which is "right" anyway? This is not a thread for those who question the validity of the whole concept of target-curve based EQ. Is one system better than the other in this way? Good question, but I leave that for someone else to attempt. Of course, perfect adherence to the target curve is not achievable in any case. Dirac would have had a differing frequency response. And, by the way, is frequency response the only useful or significant measurement?Įven if I were to entertain that notion of making measurements, what exactly should I have measured? I am quite sure that my Audyssey calibration, affected by its similar but different in some ways, target curve vs. But, if you measure, then tweak, then remeasure and see, say, a flatter frequency response, are you done? Don't know about you, but I still have to listen and decide subjectively whether I think it sounds any different or sounds preferably "better". It seems some insist on others providing measurements with any opinion as a sort of veneer of objectivity, a merit badge indicating I accept measurements and am therefore above reproach. The Integra/Audyssey setup has been tweaked about as much as I feel like tweaking it. I was comparing and selecting from among some stock choices. I will likely get to that in the months ahead with REW. ![]() Click to expand.I do think the kinds of measurements we can conveniently take might be useful to a hobbyist like you or me in tweaking an otherwise good sounding system.
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