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In Reply to: Taddeo Digital Antidote II (active version) with cable boxes ? posted by tonemaniac on October 27, 2005 at 12:17:10:
alright... the active version of the Digital Antidote II has been switched for my old trusty HRS (also out of production) box... my first experience in a public media setting.. all the good, bad, and wretched stuff that my Time Warner service has to offer... what was absolutely fascinating is that the seriously crappy signal still sounded seriously crappy, there was nothing deeper buried in the message to extract... OTOH, higher resolution, better quality stuff where there was latent information did show a marked increase in auditory believability... there was a "wetness" and a distinction between higher and intermediate frequencies that was not present before... clearly the Taddeo technolgy can unravel some of the damage that cable transmission does to the signal... however, the HRS is more dynamic... take it out and an essential punch is gone... have to wonder how many costly DVD players suffer from this same loss of vitality, unless you want to use a $$$$ full function preamp to act as your buffer...the Taddeo somehow made the whole presentation more satisfying albeit a touch dynamically flat, however there was something interesting, analog like, compelling about the sound that all the digital steps along the way really do, even in this advanced age of moviemaking, seriously screw up... it's like the digital workstations, editing decks, EQs, compressors, weirdly moronize the final result, and that's the great majority, damn near the totality of what were getting...
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- first impressions of an "obsolete" technology - tonemaniac 15:46:32 10/30/05 (1)
- second impressions of the D.A. after a week long run - tonemaniac 07:41:22 11/07/05 (0)
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