1. Anyone with thoughts on digital receivers and the chipsets used and capabilities with low impedance speakers? Seemed like everyone and their mother knew everything about the chipsets on the market and the technical and fidelity benefits of each.. Someone out there?
2. Regarding DVI or HDMI or whatever comes out next week, lets stick with DVI for sake of argument. There's the obvious benefit to video and keeping things digital, or digital for as long as possible. My second question is really why we don't see this on the receivers and DVD players -- seems to be all over even cheaper video cards for computers, monitors, and TVs, but receivers....no.
When the primary market is targeted around convenience, I wonder why the inputs/outputs haven't appeared, or rather have appeared on some devices (TVs) but not on other associated equipment, and in the current market, if using the performance benefit of DVI pretty much dictates including a lack of convenience unless you look to the high end.
The switcher box looks like an intriguing option, but if you were playing the budget game, you're now buying a device that costs as much as your receiver....and I have to assume that you switch several inputs on your receiver....and some others on another device. I figure if Bravo can offer a cheapo DVD player with DVI and upconverted output that including on a receiver isn't that expensive of an expensive option -- maybe doing switching 'correctly' is.....but that's where I defer to the folks that know 100x more than myself...and its not like the rest of the implementation of the receiver is aiming for ideals...
Only other reason I can come up with is partnerships and standards and companies wondering which one they should follow. Fact of the matter is, the standard consumer has many video inputs -- having a new and better option doesn't exactly sell well if it voids the convenience factor...part of the reason (outside of price) that MP3 players sell like crazy, but items like single input, dual knob, dual mono volume controls without a remote control might be better for fidelity, but since the convenience factor drops to zero, would completely fail in the standard consumer market, to the point of people saying "Why would I buy that?" if you introduced it to the common market.
Waiting for someone to put out a decent, affordable digital receiver, with variable crossover points, and video switching for what's actually current in this day and age. Pretty much seems like this exists, without the current video switching. I believe Sony and Denon and some of the others offer it on their high end options....just seems odd that if say Sony is going to push and advertise the connection format on their televisions....that you'd see it follow on their other products in the same way that you have a $200 and $2000 SACD player vs. only having a $2000 SACD player. Including the convenience....without the ideal implementation is still often better from a sales perspective than not offering it at all.
Anyways...
