Home Audio / Re: SPDIF support

[brk]

On Apr 7, 2007, at 10:54 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

>
> Personally, I'd not consider Bose crap-level either. Perhaps some  
> of their
> low-end stuff, but they also make some good stuff.

Dollar for dollar, Bose is always over-rated.  The consumer level  
stuff is utter garbage, and the frequency response curves of a  
typical Bose speaker look like an amusement park roller-coaster  
schematic.  For the higher-end stuff, PA speakers, studio monitors,  
and the like, there are far better options.

Granted I haven't been in *that* many professional recording studios  
(but I've been in a handful), I've never seen Bose speakers in use  
any place that people were truly concerned about sound quality.


> That same quote also
> included Pioneer. The Pioneer Elite series is actually quite good  
> as well.

It's "decent", but in all honesty there is nothing special about it,  
and no reason the Elite series couldn't/shouldn't just be the standard.