Dan Neil reviews the RL
11-27-2004, 11:51 AM
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Dan Neil reviews the RL
A great review of the RL by the best car writer out there. The lede:
I was an audiophile in college. Incorrigible, really. I shouldn't have been allowed within 100 yards of an audio.
It gets better from there:
http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...-home-highway1
I was an audiophile in college. Incorrigible, really. I shouldn't have been allowed within 100 yards of an audio.
It gets better from there:
http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...-home-highway1
11-27-2004, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Dan Neil
These DVD-A CDs.... create a superb spatial illusion by putting individual instruments and voices across eight surround-sound channels, so convincingly that you will find yourself checking the back seat to see if Milli and Vanilli have their seat belts on.
Good find.
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Even with ordinary CDs the system's processors helpfully divvy up the two stereo channels into a fairly convincing surround-sound experience, using what Bose calls its Centerpoint processing. The lowest frequencies are parsed from the other channels and pumped through the woofers.
I wish Honda would go with another audio company. Bose is such a joke.
It looks like SACD is winning the multichannel disc format war. Any chance next year's RL will be able to read multichannel SACDs too?
11-28-2004, 08:05 AM
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I just can't take anyone too seriously when 3/4 of the article is spent on the stereo system and the rest of it is a rehash of Acura marketing materials. Where did that 0-60 in 6s come from?
11-28-2004, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by biker
I just can't take anyone too seriously when 3/4 of the article is spent on the stereo system and the rest of it is a rehash of Acura marketing materials. Where did that 0-60 in 6s come from?
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Originally Posted by TSX Hokie
It looks like SACD is winning the multichannel disc format war. Any chance next year's RL will be able to read multichannel SACDs too?
11-28-2004, 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by biker
I just can't take anyone too seriously when 3/4 of the article is spent on the stereo system and the rest of it is a rehash of Acura marketing materials. Where did that 0-60 in 6s come from?
http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...-home-highway1
I think he's lived up to that Pulitzer he got last year, don't you?
11-29-2004, 03:49 PM
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Meh, if I want specs I'll ask you guys. But he sure is a stylish writer. Check out some of his other stuff:
http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...-home-highway1
I think he's lived up to that Pulitzer he got last year, don't you?
http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...-home-highway1
I think he's lived up to that Pulitzer he got last year, don't you?
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