Recent content by cs2011

Can anyone tell me if the display on the UB820EB bluray player displays track numbers when playing CDs? The pictures I have seen appear to show just elapsed time, but not track number.

Thanks for info. After reading those and other reviews, I decided to go for the HZ1500. It doesn't seem to have the weird sound issues of the HZ2000 but provides a significant audio improvement over the HZ1000 for an extra £200.

Just about to make the move to OLED, and have decided on Panasonic because of its good out-of-the-box colour accuracy and excellent above black detail. But which model to buy? Is it worth getting the HZ1500 or HZ2000 over the HZ1000 base model? There is quite a big difference in price, but I...

That's correct. The suspensions (spiders) of all woofers will loosen up within the first couple of hours of use. If you measure the T/S parameters of a woofer straight out of the box, then again after 2 hours 'break-in', the resonant frequency will have dropped by typically 5%, but hardly at...

If the speakers sound good, I will post some more details. If they don't, I won't !! I have built amps (and active speakers) before, but getting the aesthetics right is extremely difficult, hence the reason for buying the Denons. The Denon amp has preamp outputs and switched mains outlets, so...

I have a Denon PMA-720AE amp and DCD-520AE CD player, which I bought some time ago. Neither has actually been used yet owing to the fact that I am still in the middle of constructing some (transmission line) speakers. However, I have noticed that the PM6006 and CD6006 combo from Marantz always...

Here's an interesting option: https://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-55EG9A7V-LED-TV-OLED-Black/dp/B06ZY71MCJ It's a 55 inch Full-HD OLED TV (ie. not 4K) for £799.

I have an 8 year old Sony 40" Full HD TV, and I bought a Sony KD-49XE9005 (4K) TV to replace it. It quickly became apparent that the HD performance was not as good as my old TV, and the SD channels looked terrible, no matter how much I tweaked the settings. After a few days, I sent it back for...

I used to own some of the IPL S3TL transmission line speakers which used SEAS drive units, before Ivan switched over to HiVi (Chinese) drivers. They were OK, but limited by the cabinet topology used, which resulted in a very lumpy response below about 300Hz. I spent a lot of time experimenting...

In their reply to Rtings, LG admitted that there is still a variance in their panel manufacturing which can result in increased suceptibility to screen burn. (This is separate from the calibration look-up table issue). Anecdotally, it seems that most people are not seeing any problems, but...

The new XF series is looking quite promising. See Vincent Teoh's review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLDxEE9Wwng

Because they have now confirmed there is manufacturing variability issue which causes some OLED TVs to exhibit screen burn or other problems. Previously, they denied there was a problem, and tried to apportion all blame on users for watching too much static content. If you read reports in...

From that link: 04/10/2018: We contacted LG regarding the strange results in week 4. LG engineers visited our lab a few days ago and were able to confirm the 25% window on the Live CNN and FIFA 18 TVs are a result of a factory issue (see our video here). OLED TVs are produced in a hot process...

Following months, if not years of denials, and accusing customers of misusing their OLED TVs, LG have finally come clean and admitted that there is a problem 'panel variance' with their screen manufacturing. It seems to be temperature related, and causes some but not all panels to exhibit image...

I agree. OLED is really just a stop-gap technology before Micro-LED (aka Inorganic LED) arrives. As you say, the organic compounds used are inherently unstable and have limited lifespan. Micro-LED on the other hand is based on a mature technology which uses stable inorganic compounds of...