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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Technically I have no advice at this moment, since I have not tinkered with Digital Amps at all.
However, in my opinion, Sony as a company are a great example of "Bastard's Inc." and I would avoid anything they made at all costs.
Look into their history of trying to force adoption proprietary standards in music and hardware, secretly installing non-removeable rootkit's on peoples computers (for which they got their asses sued off), Installing ten tons of crap-ware on their laptops, the exploitive behaviour of their movies and music labels toward artists and their general tendency to do whatever it takes to try to gain advantage without any consideration of consumers or creators, and you will see why I hold this opinion.
Sorry to get all political at you in place of technical advice, but really I'd start by looking at the offerings of *any* of the other pro audio companies first and avoid supporting a crowd like them if you can. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:58 am |
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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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I admit that Sony gear is good quality electronics. Their engineers are good, its their management and strategic practices I object to.
But if you decide to go for them anyway, make sure you look past the surface gloss and make sure theres no "gotchas" hiding under the lid - My brother bought a Sony "MP3 Player" back in the pre-Ipod-0wnz-everything days.
Looked great on the surface, so just after he got it, he spent ages ripping all his CD's and downloading them into the player. Then a few weeks later, he tried to upgrade his computer.
Surprise, the included Sony ripping software had actually been ripping them into a DRM-protected variety of AAC, *and* converting any MP3's that he already had into the same format *without* actually saying that it was doing so. There was a way to force the device to play MP3's, although it took some finding, buried deep in options menu's, but the default setting was to make DRM infected AACs out of everything.
When he tried to move the library to a new computer (or device presumably), none of them would play, since they were "unauthorised copies" and we couldnt figure out any easy way to move the licenses to another machine (he was only in town for a few hours, so we didnt have time to mess with it for long). He spat the dummy at the place he bought it from, yelled at them until they accepted it for a refund, and bought a *real* MP3 player that didnt mess with your data.
That is just one of many examples of Sony-ism I have encountered over the years with their MP3 players, DVD burners, Laptops, CD's, DAT players - years ago, I bought a Sony TCD-D8 DAT machine before I knew what Sony were like, and then had to build a SCMS-Stripper gadget to remove the copy-protection bits from the Digital-Audio Stream to enable digital-to-digital copies.
Anyway, enough ranting about them, Id look at Pioneer (well regarded by DJ's), or Yamaha, or *anyone* except Sony.
If you want to get some experienced opinions on the digital audio gear issue, then I have heard some good things about this forum - http://www.diyaudio.com/
Supposedly populated by people who actually build their own gear, and hence actually know an RMS Watt from a PMPO one. Probably worth looking there. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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