Recent content by eycatcher

I don't have any experience with the Phil's but I was interested in the song towers originally. I decided on bookshelves and had the Sierra 2's v1's for a little bit. I was impressed and and moved up. I have the Raal Towers for over ten years. I had some different subs too. Running a rythmik...

OK no worries. I still recommend to level match the sub channels first as it looks like you missed that initial step. Genesis is usually really very good at bass management. Two subs are tricky on opposing walls, they may need to be 180 degrees out of phase from each other. It may work better if...

I would recommend you bring the gain on sub channels up at least 3db on the sub1 and at least 6 db up on sub2 on the amp, probably just 1 and 2 clicks. You want the initial target level to be closer or just above to 70db target at 50hz before you measure them with the Anthem. ARG Genesis does a...

You could try to run a ground wire between the two units grounding screws, but I experienced the same issue with different amp and using RCA to XLR adapter solved it

I was more interested in see if it would be more useful as a DAC not a power amp

Is it possible to see measurements in 'bypass' or as HT fixed-level inputs?

It looks good on paper and in the tests. Monoprice has an newer DAC and measures well and has a good warranty and minimalistic build. It does have a SMPS power supply where the Anthem has a torodial. Dirac Live Bass Control is not included, and you must buy your own calibration microphone, so...

This would be the main competitor list prices vary a few Marantz AV7706/AV8805 Rotel RSP-1576MKII Yamaha CX-A5200 JBL Synthesis SDP-55 Monoprice Monolith HTP-1 Emotiva RMC1/XMC2 McIntosh MX-100 LEXICON MC-10 NAD MASTER SERIES M17v2i ARCAM AV40 Audio Control X9/X7 Lyngdorf MP-40/50 I believe...

Looks like a good baseline for performance. Would be intersting to see what the performance delta is when you enable room correction on processors / AVR's included in the reviews.

Can we see the analog input performance, phono input? Also possibly the unbalance preamp out?

How about preamp output squarewave response testing?

It has a lot to do with what they are. The devil is in the details. All of the components matter when it comes to audio path. A DAC alone is not simple to implement. Each AV section is not impossbile to implement cleanly on its own. However add a single large power supply, video processing...

I don't know for sure, but I believe they did it for a reason. There are complex mathematics/processing required to take a digital or analog waveform in hardware or software and apply DSP correction to each channel regardless of the manufacture or room correction software. The DSP is also...