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[gonk]

Originally Posted by naturephoto1

Has anyone gone to the trouble of listening to SACD over HDMI versus over analog cables? I personally do not have the ability with my equipment. I have however been able to compare CD over HDMI, Coax, and analog cables. My experience has been that CD over analog cables in my system sounded better followed by coax and finally HDMI.

So I am wondering what others have found. I am beginning to think that HDMI is of great convenience but not necessarily the be all to end all for audio reproduction. Anyone want to do some testing?

Rich

I haven't listened at all in the last few days (just recovering from a power outage), but during my beta testing I compared analog output to HDMI output using an Onkyo 885. I expected HDMI to win fairly comfortably, but was surprised to find that it was easy to leave the 83's analog output engaged. The analog section isn't going to be the equal of a $4500+ player, but it will get a lot closer than you'd expect.

[naturephoto1]

Originally Posted by gonk

I haven't listened at all in the last few days (just recovering from a power outage), but during my beta testing I compared analog output to HDMI output using an Onkyo 885. I expected HDMI to win fairly comfortably, but was surprised to find that it was easy to leave the 83's analog output engaged. The analog section isn't going to be the equal of a $4500+ player, but it will get a lot closer than you'd expect.

My upgraded Onkyo 885 has stellar analog performance. But, that is one of the areas that was targeted for the modifications to the unit.

Rich