In contrast to the Media-Player, the Pre-Amplifier contains four Cinch connectors minimum, on the rear. In case there are only those four, two of them handle digital electrical signals 2x SPDIF and the other two act as an analog stereo input. In case there are eight Cinch connectors, in addition, six of them give three analog inputs. The remaining two have a very important meaning to most users: this analog stereo output AUX-DAC feeds all the analog or digital input, and digitally processed data D to A converted.
They carry high level signals scaled. Scaled means that they have volume influence, and are dedicated to modulating analog power amplifiers. The Media-Player and the Pre-Amplifier can be expanded to a higher version at any time. For sure, the Integrated Amplifier has power amplifiers included in the same housing as well as binding posts. It is always a pre-amplifier at the same time, which is why it always offers the selected input signal on the Toslink output, regardless of whether the source is analog or digital from external, or if it is the contained Media-Player.
Also, the Integrated Amplifier does not necessarily contain the Media-Player, and can be up-graded. For more information about each of Behold's Classic Products, please visit: www. Power Supply for the Behold APU is solved externally to avoid the presence of mains voltages or hum, and for space reasons.
The Behold Tanara floor standing loudspeaker offers an extraordinary performance together with the behold Gentle G The modest design does not show any driver. Containing 3-ways, it is party active driven bi-amping. The internal double-bass concept reduces vibrations to an absolute minimum. At the time I did the review, I thought this meant that I could not easily try the Behold Gentle G with other speakers, or separate the sound of the Behold from the Ascendo, although I could easily defeat the room correction within the Behold using its remote control.
I only learned afterwards from the manufacturer that the Ascendo crossover optimization within the Gentle could be shut off from the touchscreen menu system, enabling the Gentle to be used with any speaker without having to manipulate the crossover.
I also did not try out two key features: the phono front end, and the external hard drive. Both options could be very important to you, but I would caution you to be very, very careful about the use of external hard drives to store large amounts of your music in any system.
First, hard drive reliability on very large drives and NAS network attached storage boxes has been a lot more mixed than I like. Second, it is all very well to demonstrate music storage systems with a small number of albums or downloads that have easily obtainable artwork and proper digital labeling for the storage-and-sort system involved. The Behold, however, seems to use the iTunes directory system, and I have found iTunes can be terrible in storing large numbers of classical, less-well-known jazz, and foreign CDs.
Yet, this is probably the best way to review the Behold. This is particularly true if you are new to using room correction, if you are not experienced with checking the results, and if you are not very cautious about the use of equalization or large amounts of correction. My TacT 2. I greatly prefer manual setup of the TacT to the automatic option when I apply room correction, so I can see the full before and after data.
I have also learned that it is far better to use the unit to find best speaker placement first and then correct, rather than to use extra correction with a speaker in a bad location. I always separately measure a TacT setup with pink noise and a quarter-octave spectrum analyzer to make sure that the room correction works well in a wide range of listening positions and some freak problem has not affected setup. No two runs of the Audyssey set-up routine ever seem to produce exactly the same results under the same conditions, and some corrections have been way off.
In the case of the Behold, it was striking to watch a real expert like Ralf Ballman set up the Behold and Ascendos. He focused first on speaker placement, and then on correction, and went for a minimum of correction. In fact, he preferred the best speaker location without correction to the use of correction. In minutes he produced excellent results that probably would have taken me several days of experimenting, provided I got all of the instructions right. This is why I would strongly recommend that you only buy Behold from a dealer with an excellent reputation for service, and count on that dealer for professional setup and help in any upgrades.
The equipment I used was broken in, but still took time to settle in—particularly because David Salz of Wireworld had been kind enough to rush me a set of his superb new Gold Eclipse speaker cables. You also may not want the response curve the program selects when the system is broken in. Very often, you want a falling response in the extreme highs, and you may want to tweak other aspects of response just a little.
A really experienced dealer or set-up technician can do this with an hour or so of listening. If your goal is musical realism, rather than a Cyclon level of technical accuracy, it will be well worth paying for a dealer follow-up. Given this background, there is only so much I can say about the sound quality of the Behold. What I can say, however, is that it does not have any degree of digital hardness in the midrange or the upper octaves. The sound was very quick, tight, and detailed.
Musical transients at all levels were unusually well defined, with perhaps a slight apparent emphasis of the leading edge. This mix of sound characteristics, however, is equally apparent with a number of top solid-state analog amplifiers, and I did not hear the kind of digital coloration I have heard all too often in units with less competent analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion. I would listen carefully to the midrange with your favorite recordings, and with special attention to the realism of the upper midrange with piano, woodwinds, strings, cymbal, and brush.
This, however, is common sense in auditioning any high-end equipment, and particularly any equipment that is costly and has any digital features. I would personally prefer a slightly softer and warmer sound, but one of my sons had just the opposite reaction. We both felt that the Behold was very musically realistic. This brings me to the Ascendo Renaissance C8 speaker, which I was able to review both with and without the Behold.
It comes in four finishes, with custom finishes at extra cost, and it is not small. It scarcely is as complicated a design as the Behold Gentle, but it involves a lot of very serious engineering.
Included in clean installs of Windows 10 as well as upgrades to Windows 10 from Windows 8. In some editions of Windows 10, it's included as an optional feature that you can enable. Enable Windows Media Player. DVD playback isn't included. Included in Windows 8. For Windows Media Player 12 for Windows 8. Get it now. Click the Start button, type features , and select Turn Windows features on or off. Note: To troubleshoot issues like playback and codec problems, see the "Get help" section in Windows Media Player.
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