Vacuum tubes are like tires -- two tires may be designed to fit the same rim, and may have the same overall diameter, tread width, aspect ratio, etc. But they'll perform differently, depending upon how they're made and what they're made of.

Roberts' Acoustical Woodcrafting

[quote user="LarryC"] Something like Acadia Audio , since you're not far from the NP. [/quote] My favorite memories from Maine are Mount Kineo (I have a beautiful photograph of Kineo across Moosehead Lake) and hiking the Precipice Trail at Acadia Park. "Kineo Design"? "Precipice Audio"?

DisplayPort only supports audio up to 6.144 Mbit/sec ( Wikipedia ). If you want to pass 8 channels, the best you can do is 16 bit / 48 kHz.

[quote user="whatever55"] I understand the workings... analog in analog out... but the sample rate has an effect on the sound. [/quote] Beyond a certain point there are diminishing returns. Essentially all modern audio equipment is well beyond that point of diminishing returns. Besides, your source CDs are sampled at 44.1 kHz, so the 48 kHz sampling of the DX38 at least doesn't reduce the bandwidth any more than has already been done. [quote] Or else they would not sell many high end

[quote user="greg928gts"] Something just doesn't sit well with me knowing that all those parameters are still idling there while my signal is passing through. Greg [/quote] Well, if they're still using the software that I wrote for them (and I have no way of knowing whether they are or aren't), then with the settings that I described all processing is truly bypassed. It's different with digital signal processors than with analog signal processors. For example, in the compressor

Understand that I had NOTHING to do with the design of the DX38. I worked for EV long before the DX38 came around, but companies tend to re-use their software whenever possible. Greg

Page 8-12 of the DX38 manual shows the minimum compression ratio to be 1:1, so that is how to bypass the compressor. Page 8-6 shows the minimum Master Delay to be 2ms. This is probably hardware-related, meaning that it is the fundamental delay for a signal to pass through the electronics themselves. As long as the delay is identical in all channels, it is not a problem. Page 8-11 shows the minimum Channel Delay to be 0ms. That is how to bypass the Channel Delay. Page 8-13 shows the maximum Limiter

Reminds me of getting driving directions in New England: "If ya get ta wayah the Jacobsen's bahn used ta be befowah it buhned down, ya gone too fah."

[quote user="sunburnwilly"] True but some folks here like myself can't afford new Klipsch speakers. ... The build quality and the price he is offering them at is appealing . A means to an end so to speak . [/quote] So let me get this straight: The "end" (you obtaining something that you otherwise could not afford) justifies the "means" (counterfeiting) exactly how? You could print some counterfeit $100 bills on your color laser printer and use them to purchase the