DUDE~! I am so jealous of you! What a great receiver. Im sure you have read the reviews in Stereophile last couple of months, column is "In the Round." He is very favorable as are all the honest reviews of Denon's big guns. I would hope you would take a minute to report how you like the sound from an audiophile perspective. Might have to let 'er break in a bit huh?
Anyway, I play my SQB through an extremely revealing preamp/amp and speakers, so I hear every minute tweek. Upgrading the power supply from the stock unit was the biggest improvement in sound I have heard in my system for a long time. That includes swapping input tubes to NOS goodies. It is obvious and very worthwhile. It is cheap for the amount of improvement. I had a cheapo CDP before, so I was happy the SQB could sound so great with tweeked PS. If you can build your own, look at my post from few weeks ago. If you want plug and play, there are a lot of posts here about upgrade wall warts. You will not be disappointed. After PS upgrade, be sure you have good connector to Rx, even if you are using optical Toslink, get a good one. All digital cables are NOT the same. Reviews consistently report that upgrade digital cables, optical or coax sound better than The Shack's. I would spend some serious time with new PS and otherwise stock SQB before you send it off for surgery. You will probably find that it sounds pretty damn good as is. I have compared mine to $1000 CDPs and found it in the same ballpark. Adcom 850 DVD player was a little nicer, but it costs $1000, Quad CDP nice, not as smooth or dynamic as SQB, when ripped with EAC. Make sure you analyze it with recordings that demand incredible fidelity and always listen critically to WAV files, not mp3, flac or any other compressed format. My imagination CAN hear the difference. I like to use Chicago SYmphony's recording of Holst The Planets, it has a little of everything. Another good one is Maria Schneider Concert in the Garden. Very subtle delicate textures simultaneous to rich power big band chords. Nice music. Great stereo recording. Enjoy your new toy! I might be just behind you in that 4806 line. Waiting to see how they mod the 5805 to handle new HDMI 1080p stuff. My speakers can take bi-amped 5805 into 4 ohms. Rich -- richidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21333 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
