2005-03-30-09:48:22 Sean Adams: > I've been procrastinating upgrading my home receiver to a RSX1056 so I > can fiddle around with driving its RS232 interface through the > geekport... I guess this is my excuse. :)
My apologies for another post related to the disease of audiophilia rather than directly about Slimstuff (soon's my shiny silver SB2 ships, I'll get dragged back on topic) but that won't stop me. I haven't heard this Rotel, although Rotels through the years have sounded swell and this one may sound absolutely fabulous, so this isn't to be interpreted as anything negative about the RSX1056, and it'd be swell for you to end up having the proper hardware to debug this digital-lock problem, but... when I hear of someone shopping for an AVR in that price range, I have to recommend giving a listen to the Arcams (AVR-250 and AVR-300) before making a final decision. I have an AVR-250, and it offers more than a hint of the spooky subtle-detail reproduction from digital sources provided by its fancy sibling the AV8. There's something about the way current Arcams do D/A that I like. That having been said, I can report on the downside: my AVR-250 occasionally (maybe a couple of times a week) gets a little "confused", for example after switching from a digital input to the built-in tuner no sound comes out, but switching back and forth once more fixes it. I never had this problem with a faithful Denon, but the musicality of the Arcam totally makes it worth putting up with a few minor quirks, at least to me. The Arcams can be controlled via an RS-232 port after the fashion of all that fancy-pants installer-integrated stuff; is that the RS-232 functionality you were referring to? The codes are toward the end of the manual: http://www.arcam.co.uk/downloads/DiVA%20AVR250%20handbook.pdf Anyhow, sorry for the hijack, and back to your regularly-scheduled program. For a hint of the on-topic, my AVR-250 is getting along swell fed by an SB1 and we'll see Real Soon (I hope) how it gets on with the miracle of the SB2. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
