[slinkelist] HW review: Sony STR-DB930

[Michael Holopainen]

I was living in dark noisy analog world, until yesterday I received my
new amp and stepped into the light.;)
Sony STR-DB930

Great price, great sound quality, great in all the way. 
- 3 TOS in 
- 1 TOS out 
- 1 coax in 
- 4 s-vhs in 1 out (or was it even 2) 
- Sound quality to match ES series
- independent switching of audio / video sources 
- renaming of input caption  
- Multi zone !!! 
- Good DSP (surroundsound)

looks great, I know more when I get audiocard with TOSlink (RME
Digi96/8)
Important things for CDJ users :
1. the TOS inputs are not locked to predetermined input source (like LD
or DVD with Video input)
2. you can edit input source text on display (like "TV/LD" -> "CD2")
3. You can program combinations of A/V sources = (like when I switch to
"CD1" (formerly known as "MD/DAT") it switches    Video signal to
VCR2[where I did connect video out from my PC])

So far only thing bad is the 2-way remote (though it doubles as "all in
one" remote and displays album/track text from CDP-players) 
- Ugly 
- Display wayyy too small 
- otherwise too big
- 2-WAY IR need constant line-of-sigth to amp
- keeps turning the display off (like the amp, I hope it can be adjusted
somewhere)
- stupid logic, you need to press something to turn the display on and
them you see what it is that you did.
 
--michael (A) 
   --"Would you fly on airplane controlled by MS Windows ?"--
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