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No no no, the onus on you is to prove that sample-and-hold blur is not a factor, when both manufacturers and research performed by independent scientists have found it to be visible and problematic to viewers. Overwhelming evidence will be needed to overturn the conclusion of multiple studies...

Great find! Not very valuable, but nice looking and from what I hear, a better performer than most other post-tube Fisher gear. Most of their non-tube stuff was pretty bad (I've heard one of their cheap SS receivers and concur); but the CA-800 seems to have a decent reputation.

I've never heard them but the consensus among serious gamers is that the Audio-Technica ATH-AD700 headphones are the absolute best headphones out there for gaming. Add in a Zalman clip-on microphone and you're still under $100 from Amazon. You'll find the same recommendation for the AD700 in...

Actually, PDPs flash the image multiple times during each frame - so you still have sample and hold blur, just of a different character. It's similar to how film projectors display each frame two or three times - to prevent visible flicker and to increase the perceived brightness. But they do...

Exactly. I believe that most people don't even realize what they're seeing is unnatural because they've never seen (or don't remember seeing) a high definition image panning on a display. A few minutes gaming on an FW900 versus an LCD makes the difference painfully clear. I also agree that...

That's an outright lie. If sample and hold blur didn't bother people then there would be no push for 120Hz/240Hz interpolating and black frame insertion LCD TVs, or 120 Hz monitors (you get approximately the same response time blur at 60 Hz). Sample and hold blur is the primary cause of...

Really? When your argument fails you revert to personal insults without any basis whatsoever? Real mature. Who started the "super long quote spam post" thing in the first place, anyway? Oh wait, that was you. All I'm saying is that they will come, eventually. When they're ready - and that...

No, but they're getting closer and closer. That's the point. They have been all along. I don't ever take any company's word as to when future products are going to be released, unless they have production prototypes ready from the factory with distribution imminent. To think otherwise is to...

It's all about manufacturability. They're just not there yet, but they are getting closer. The specs and performance are already real - that's what OLED phone displays and those broadcast monitors are. They already outperform LCDs in most ways (especially the obvious response time and black...

Yup, they suck and they'll never go anywhere. Just like this never went anywhere: Plasma displays never went anywhere either - I mean, they only took 52 years to get this far: And then another 10 years to mature to this: And for that matter, 200 PPI, 3840x2400...

Audio Advisor is always a good place to look; they have a very good selection of small bookshelf speakers: http://www.audioadvisor.com/products.asp?dept=49 Everyone I know that's dealt with them (myself included) has been very impressed with their level of service, too.

No, a black pixel on a field of white is not the same as the opposite, because the point spread functions of the adjoining white pixels overlap the single black pixel and in effect drown it out far sooner. Again, the Snellen test only tests for the frequency at which we can discern perfect...

There is absolutely no way those charts are right. I understand how he's reached those calculations, using the 1 arc minute figure that is the distance between two points that must be distinguished to have 20/20 vision. (i.e two points 1 arc minute apart must be distinguished). But if that...

Well, I wouldn't quite say the opposite, but decent headphones are going to be far more demanding on the source than the 5500 or any other computer speakers.

Nobody has ever heard jitter whatsoever in any competent system. EVER. Don't worry about it. On top of that, for digital transmission of signals you don't need anything approaching a perfect square wave. There's tolerances (margins of error) both in the time and amplitude domain that mean...

Nice, man! I've a pair of B2s I traded for, and they're very, very impressive for their efficiency/size/value proposition. They're my smallest, most inexpensive, and least technically competent speakers ATM, but for what they are they're great. I would have probably gotten the B3 or RB-51 or...

Yes, that's very possible. I was just trying to alleviate the confusion that it possibly had something to do with the DDWG rather than taxes. The DVI standard itself is open, like DisplayPort and unlike HDMI. For HDMI the manufacturers' fees are listed here. Really, IMO there's little reason...

DVI has always been an open standard with no licensing fees. Regardless of its inclusion or non-inclusion in past laptops, now it's really a legacy port that is very lucky to have HDMI retain electrical compatibility. HDMI is obviously the low-end consumer media standard now, and DisplayPort...

I'd have to say among those I've used... HD 800 > T1 = DT 770/DT 880/DT 990 = K701 = HD 600/HD 650 >>>>> MS-1i > PortaPro > E2c The best headband IMO is/are without a doubt the HD 600 and HD 650 - the foam is so amazingly soft and cushion-y, I don't even feel it. The headbands of the others...

What an awesome deal! Nice find - I'd envy you if I didn't already have and love mine! Personally, I'd stay away from the uDAC 2 based on poor objective performance - and its amp isn't powerful enough for the HD 600 (in terms of voltage swing) anyway. A very well regarded, well measuring...

Why does something have to be wrong for there to be no audible difference between DACs? Onboard audio is better than ever before, he's got a decent onboard solution, and he's comparing to S/PDIF out to his receiver, which undoubtedly has competent DACs. The lack of an audible difference...

You guys realize that his Panny receiver just has class D amplifiers, right? It's a very well regarded receiver over at AVS Forum, no less: http://archive2.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=490349 http://archive2.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=483466 I don't think there's...

Do you really expect people to say, "oh, I have scaling, now let me go buy a high PPI monitor? The world doesn't work that way. When people get a solution to a problem they don't have, they don't go looking for the problem. When you give them a problem, they go looking for a solution - that's...

As for the bit about scaling support preceding higher PPI monitors - well, are you reconsidering your position on how there aren't high-PPI monitors because the software support isn't there, or are you conceding that the scaling isn't useful at all so the hardware (150+ PPI laptop screens) has...

Hundreds of thousands of medical, military, engineering, and photo editing workstations aren't a big enough market? There's far more niche displays out there - look at the available high-end market - it exists, and it's very, very expensive. Again, these thousands of businesses that need...

Yes, while Beyerdynamic claims the 32 ohm versions of the DT 880 and DT 990 are for portable players and computers, they need more current than any normal portable player can provide. You really need an amplifier, whether it's your receiver, a CMoy, Fiio E11, or whatever.

I don't agree at all. You could say that the reason that we're not all using high ppi monitors is because there isn't complete support for scaling, yes. No one is going to deny that that is one of the biggest reasons. But why isn't there even one consumer desktop monitor with higher than 110...

No one has forced you to buy high DPI monitors yet, and no one will. Not until low DPI monitors go out of production, that is. These are fundamental problems for you. But not for everyone. If there are people willing to buy such monitors - and there's at least some demand from power-user...

Uhhhh.... No. Unless you're talking about artifacts, the whole point of frame interpolation is to reduce sample and hold blur from fixed frame rate sources (120 Hz also gives the opportunity to reduce judder on 24 fps films when used with interpolation or eliminate it completely without). Of...

Well, the E7/E9 combo clocks in right at $200... It's two boxes, yes, but the E7 docks right in the E9 and they look great together. I have the original uDAC; I got it instead of the E7 because of the RCA line out (which I understand now is likely just the headphone output through RCA...

I know that; you guys don't get it. The panels themselves still refresh at 120 Hz - otherwise it wouldn't be possible to insert the interpolated frames (although black frame insertion would obviously still be possible). The only thing missing from them is an input processor that will take a...

Well, you can always set your display at half linear resolution (e.g. 1920x1080 -> 960x540) or even quarter linear resolution to avoid any sort of interpolation. Unfortunately, many (perhaps most) raster monitors (for analog) or video cards (for digital) apply smoothing for non-native sizes...

What I don't fully understand is why there are 120 Hz IPS TVs and not monitors...

Hmm, looks like a poor man's K1000.

Not quite correct. On Blu-Ray discs, ONE of LPCM, DD, or DTS must be provided, but not necessarily all three. You can have just LPCM, just DD, or just DTS on a Blu Ray, although I'm not sure if there are any releases that have just one other than perhaps some classic stereo-only LPCM releases...

I had to look it up - that desk is some amazing custom work... I presume the OP is talking about the monitor mounts though. They're individually wall-mounted: http://www.l3p.nl/files/Hardware/Deskmod/Progress/1280px/P1050032%20%5B1280px%5D.JPG...

My Model M is going on 25. Years. :D I think just a lot of the hostility here is a result of the blind adoration given after only a short time using the products. For example... I have a Sigma DP1s camera that I adored for its incredible performance and apparent build quality until it...

Actually, the Realtek chip on his Mobo (I actually had one; it's pretty nice) has DD Live/DTS Connect - but software support for it is optional. A tab for the option should be in the Realtek HD Audio Manager if it is supported; if it's not then you're probably out of luck. Also, to the OP: I...

I can confirm that the Klipsch B2s are quite good.

While I agree that a certain level of human perception is learned, we still all have limits that are different. When you're pushing the limits - as with Lame V0 mp3s vs the original PCM file (except with killer samples), or stargazing and searching for a particularly dim object, some people may...