LIVEdigitally

Back before there were many gadgets and gizmos, cool mobile phones and MP3 players, the hot topic of consumer technology centered around audio/video gear.  Personally, my first home surround sound setup involved a HiFi VCR and a Dolby Pro Logic receiver.  We’ve come a long way from there, with 7.1 (or more) channel digital surround sound, pre- and post-processing, digital filters, and more. 

My current stereo is a Sony DA30ES with 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS support.  It has a bunch of inputs and outputs, although all are analog.  I received a pretty little (well, not-so-little) package in the mail this week with a new Pioneer VSX-80TXV A/V receiver.  Oooh, integrated HDMI switch!  Ahhh, THX-certified.  Ohhh, so many ins and outs.  Me likey!

I’m going to make the switch this coming week, although I’m going to have a little ‘guest panel’ come over beforehand so we can do a little comparison testing.  It’s a little tricky to test since it’s so subjective and based entirely on short-term memory, but we’ll do our best.   Some pictures below, more online here.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 23rd, 2007 at 4:53 pm by Jeremy Toeman and is filed under Video/Music/Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.