NuForce DVD Player AVP 16 User Manual

latest and greatest video processing op- at once, the game plan is to select the  
tions, or with elaborate custom installa-  
tion-oriented features. On the contrary,  
this controller turns back-to-basics  
engineering into some-  
source component first, and then to use  
the AVP-16s video input switches to  
choose which sets of video input you  
NuForce AVP-16  
Chris  
Martens  
Multichannel Controller  
thing of an art form.  
Solid-state preamps sometimes have a cold, sterile  
qualitythatdistanceslistenersfromthemusic,butthe  
Keeping It Simple  
The AVP-16 provides  
simple and effective  
pass-through switching  
for composite, S-video  
The Gift of Simplicity  
AVP-16 does not.Instead,it offers a delightful combi-  
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nation of clarity and natural,organic warmth.  
heres an old hymn that  
proclaims “’Tis a gift  
to be simple” and that  
line fits the personality  
the least amount of money. To grasp  
what the $995 AVP-16 is about,  
picture it as a high-performance  
7.1-channel analog audio preampli-  
fier that provides just enough basic  
surround sound decoding and video-  
switching functionality to serve as a  
solid A/V controller. What the AVP-  
16 is not is a features-rich controller  
equipped (or, depending upon your  
point of view, burdened) with the  
and component video signals but pro-  
vides no video upconversion or format  
transcoding features of any kind. This  
want to use. You might think this sort of  
manual switching would be a pain, but  
in fact it is literally childs play. My kids  
T
of NuForces AVP-16 7.1-channel  
A/V controller to a “T.” Where many  
controllers tout auto-this, micropro-  
cessor-controlled that, and HDMI-  
equipped everything, the afford-  
able AVP-16 is headed in the other  
direction with one main objective  
in mind: namely, achieving superb  
sound quality—especially for high-  
resolution multichannel music—for  
means all incoming video signals remain had the AVP-16s operational protocols  
in their original formats as they pass  
through the controller. When using the  
AVP-16 with source components that  
output video signals in multiple formats  
figured out in a matter of minutes with  
zero instruction from dad. Works for me.  
On the audio side, the AVP-16 is a  
straightforward solid-state 7.1-channel  
analog preamp, with single-ended (RCA  
jack-equipped) outputs for all channels  
and a set of balanced (XLR-type) outputs  
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