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The PC app is IMO completely supplanted by various versions of A1. It's a suite for adjusting the target curve, which is just one small step in REW with A1. If you want to sit and play with the curves the PC app is just more resolution and control than the neutered $20 mobile app. Since you've...

Room correction is a complete game changer in difficult rooms / environments as well as multichannel. The first response from Alex-z is the most correct. Adding a sub is the answer to fixing the nulls and they would see a drastic difference between hand tuning the sub settings by ear versus...

Test it with Multi-channel stereo mode and your choice of music. I'm still trying to figure out what my penance will be for now with A1 enjoying that AVR mode outside of just a "party mode". The alignment is so precise I recommend starting to listen with your head about 2 feet from the main...

Might want to check the AVS Forum post. It's explicitly stated that MultEQ and MultEQ XT cannot do LFE+Main mode due to limited sub taps. Comparison of MultEQ versions which shows both are significantly more limited in filters. I suspect based on that information MultEQ is much more strongly...

All of these companies have learned from the West's most narcissistic sociopaths in marketing how to convert durable goods into consumables. They've been pretty successful unfortunately, with people who would have bought one solid $500-1000 AVR or amp 20 years ago have dropped a few $k...

Having a hated reputation IMO is clear signal to noise ratio that truth is being spoken to power. If you asked someone for a logical and scientific reason they wouldn't go to ASR, at best you get some hand waving about "Amir's bias" and "this vendor's numbers are different" or "but they don't...

Conceptually, multiple subs are one of the better configurations for ART. Single sub needs full range LR / LCRS speakers so they can shape the decay control function of ART by producing the cancellation signals at sub frequencies. Even typical 35-55Hz F3 full range floor standing L/R speakers...

I would doubt #2 since beta ART firmware is already running on D&M x800 and A1 platforms. Frankly, I would expect the x800 and Storm Audio gear use the same DSP / SoC model for processing Dirac / Audyssey, especially given the timing of the Stormaudio vs D&M betas. IIRC, the D&M beta firmware is...

I bought a 3800 and all the licensing through multi-sub DLBC (during 30% discount) purely on the basis of prepping for ART at the beginning of this year (Jan/Feb). Literally the first time I looked at a technology and thought it was worth upgrading from my Harman AVR 347 that had performed so...

Per @sweetchaos in the other Dirac comparison thread, there is a new 30% off promo code. I'm not sure I want to encourage handing more money to Dirac at the moment with the current news and no official word on ART coming to D&M or other compatible platforms. I bought a Denon x3800h and all the...

I hope they consider a semi-private / semi-open early beta for people willing to pay, but receive less (no?) support and configuration assistance. If the issue really is about making it more "consumer friendly" as TJCinnamon relayed, then perhaps widen the bleeding edge pool to those willing to...

Topping's flagship LA90 and LA90D (Discrete) both had significant rates of failure, many more with the latter. The LA90D in particular was probably one of the first sub $1k ultra high quality and relatively high power monoblock (bridgeable from stereo) capable amps and many considered it an...

I limited my conversation to mainstream consumer targeted technologies with an arbitrary, but I think reasonable <$10k ballpark for AVR/processor + technology licensing. Same reason I was limited in mentioning Trinnov to the restrictive Sherwood implementation. Really I was thinking of some of...

In the mainstream consumer market (AVRs / licenses <$10k) there is no direct competition to ART. It is using cancelation similar to noise reduction technologies to control impulse response and room resonance. When we talk pricing, Dirac's pricing likely has nothing to do with how much it...

Normally I would agree with most of your points, but the very next post after yours is the opposite example. There are more than enough consumers in this hobby (heck, just these forums) who lack one or more of time, intellect, or drive and want an easy mode button while still feeling entitled to...

That would put it as likely having the AKM ADC (& DAC?) which has been replaced in post 2020 models with a TI / BB one that is *supposed* to improve SINAD around 3db. BTW @amirm, could you also test analog input on both (or even better all 3 - AKM vs TI vs Sweetspot)? I recall the 2x4 HD and...

The first line actually outs a topic I was thinking of when I saw this post was still rolling and that I'm sure has already come up -- mixing and mastering of the recording. There certainly is a subset of albums which are better mixed and mastered in the vinyl LP versus CD or streaming digital...

Pretty sure you should be safe with the V3s. I just tested my V3 switching on and off and I had to put my ear pretty close to the tweeter on a Kef Q100s to hear the power off pop and it was very soft. I did note it was more audible, but still soft after playing music at volume than simply...

Flex HT can't do DD / DTS which will be its undoing. Too many TVs and other devices cannot correctly output eARC 6-channel LPCM. HDMI has always been about supporting the licensing fiefdoms, so this is to be expected. Further it has too few output channels for a DSP when they've been selling on...

1) Agree on the moving the Mono / Stereo switch to the back with a slider switch as many are advocating. 2) Disagree with all who have said to move the input switch to the back. Personally I have a very simple use case -- and I think many other enthusiasts will have the same, which is 2 input...