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Home theatre, digital audio, and the measurements behind the arguments about them.

34 articles.

Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 3

Installing and configuring Media Center 2005, the tuner and display setup, and the things the manual does not tell you.

Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 2

The build itself — case, motherboard, tuners and the quiet-running compromises a machine that lives in a living room has to make.

Cary Cinema 6 AV Processor Review

A review of Cary Audio Design's Cinema 6 AV processor, with bench measurements alongside the listening.

Panasonic DVD-S97 DVD Player Review

A review of the Panasonic DVD-S97 universal player, including its video processing and how it handles progressive output.

Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 1

Building a Windows Media Center Edition 2005 home theatre PC: what the platform could do in 2005, and choosing the parts.

Denon DVD-3910

A review of the Denon DVD-3910 for MichaelDVD.

Denon DVD-1710

A review of the Denon DVD-1710 for MichaelDVD.

NAD T513

A review of the NAD T513 for MichaelDVD.

Dynamic Comparison SACD vs CD - Part 5

The last of the series: SACD against CD on the same titles, and a look at whether the format or the master is doing the work.

Dynamic Comparison of LPs vs CDs - Part 4

Turning the same measurements on vinyl: LP transfers against their CD counterparts, and where the audible differences really come from.

Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 1

Recording the CD, DVD-A and SACD releases of one album through the same converter and comparing what came back — waveforms, levels and ultrasonic content.

Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 2

The second part of the format comparison: spectral analysis of the same three transfers, and what the ultrasonic energy above 22kHz actually contains.

Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 3

Closing the three-format comparison with the dynamic range figures, and what they say about mastering rather than about the formats themselves.

Distortion on the Denon AVC-A1SE+

A short measurement note: harmonic distortion that turned out to belong to the amplifier rather than to any of the players feeding it.

Digital TV Software

A 2004 APC Magazine roundup of four Windows programs for watching and recording digital television in Australia, reproduced from the Word file as it was sent to the magazine, editorial scaffolding and all.

Digital TV software: APC's edit

The same 2004 roundup after APC's Dan Warne had been through it, a third shorter, with a co-author added, the boxout cut and two of my mistakes fixed.

Remote controls for your HTPC

The third piece of my July 2004 APC batch, a Girder and TIRA tutorial with two boxouts, reproduced from the manuscript as it left my hands — with the draft's self-written brief and what changed between the two versions on the way to the deadline.

The ultimate Windows HTPC

The myHTPC workshop from my July 2004 APC batch, reproduced from the manuscript that went to the magazine — the piece that was commissioned at the highest rate, abandoned on day one under an XMLTV heading, and finished across one long weekend.

Denon DVD-2200

A review of the Denon DVD-2200 for MichaelDVD.

Comparing Audio Tracks on Music DVDs

Why most of my music DVDs did not sound as good as my CDs, traced through the waveforms of the same recordings in every format the discs offered.

Linn Unidisk 2.1

A review of the Linn Unidisk 2.1 for MichaelDVD.

Denon DVD-2900

A review of the Denon DVD-2900 for MichaelDVD.

Pioneer DV-S733A

A review of the Pioneer DV-S733A for MichaelDVD, written with Tony Rogers.

Denon DVD-3800

A review of the Denon DVD-3800 for MichaelDVD.

Denon DVD-A1

A review of the Denon DVD-A1 for MichaelDVD, written with John Lee.

Sony DVP-NS905V

A review of the Sony DVP-NS905V for MichaelDVD.

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