Sammanfattning: I had planned to feature a few intriguing new products I saw at CEDIA's Expo 2007 held last September in Denver, but I did that on the Stereophile website. Instead, I'll just tell you about the only big audio trend I saw there: HDMI. What? Ain't that...
Sammanfattning: A review of the Integra DTC 9.8, listing all the major features so you can decide whether to purchase such a unit, if you are serious about your home theatre audio. Integra DTC 9.8Integra are one of the leading manufacturers of home theatre component...
Four HDMI inputs and two outputs puts the Integra DTC 9.8 at the top of the heap in terms of relevant connectivity, behind the reference Lexicon and Mark Levinson processors, both of which cost more than 10 times as much as the DTC 9.8, The DTC 9.8's sound quality is especially good for its modest price tag, possessing a rich full sound and surprisingly musicality with a taut, punchy low end a
Though it never fails to lock onto a signal, the DTC 9.8 isn't the fastest in making changes between HDMI connected components, The Audyssey EQ is an awesome feature, but defeating it isn't a simple onebutton command. Instead, it's buried in the nether regions of the DTC 9.8's otherwise stellar menus, While solidly built, the DTC 9.8 doesn't look like a referencegrade product, nor does it app
It used to be that a home theater processor with the feature set found on the Integra DTC 9.8 would run you an arm and a leg. Like first-generation plasma screens, everything becomes more affordable with time. However, Integra didn't skimp on the perfo...
Sammanfattning: Next-generation audio/video controller. Integra raised a lot of eyebrows when it announced the new DTC-9.8 A/V processor at CEDIA last year. Not only was this the first pre/pro on the market to offer decoding of the next-gen audio codecs from Dolby a...
Sammanfattning: Who knew that for $1,600 retail you could get a state of the art audio/video processor, complete with all the latest bells and whistles like HDMI 1.3a inputs and both Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio capability? I didn’t, until I stumbled across...
Sammanfattning: The SSP (Surround Sound Processor) world has been a sad place for the last couple of years. All the mass market companies were implementing HDMI on just about every model of receiver they had, but all the high-end SSP companies hesitated, because HDM...
Sammanfattning: Unless designed by a brilliant acoustician and built with unlimited funds, every listening room has nasty nulls and ragged resonances. Humans are adaptable creatures, so we eventually get used to these abnormalities, but that doesn’t mean the problems ...
