MacCali
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They are idiots man, they flagged my card for fraud and canceled my order lol. I was like wtf, I even sent them copies of my address and bank statements to confirm it's not fraud and they said okay they will forward it to the transaction merchantI picked mine up last night. Did a 5 positions ARC calibration, didn't like the result at all, missed my Denon already. To be fair, I spent lots of time trying to perfect the Denon/Audyssey with the Editor App and Ratbuddyssey so I need to at least spend a few hours on Arc especially I am new to it, with no experience whatsoever.
Just checked it with REW before I do the second run. The plots confirmed while it sounded bad. I must have done something wrong with mic positions or something. Like most things about the unit though so far but also missed the Denon's flexibility in settings such as DEQ, DV, HDMI settings etc....
What's the eta of yours?
They said I have to reorder it, so I ordered again, says it ships December 9th. I dont care though.
The guy on one review mentioned that, for being so highly rated on REQ the unit changes the sound which isn't pleasant and you need to go in a adjust everything and the topics at hand for someone at my level of experience will be easier to mess up rather than improve. Virtually seems like I am going to have someone come in to integrate the system into my room for the best performance, which means even more money.
I will say though, I never kept room eq for my marantz. I did it once and I did not like it and so I just keep everything as the speakers intended and to my ears it's sounds amazing. Maybe just pure luck
I am feeling a bit skeptical on this unit to be honest, I am starting to feel as though it maybe a waste of money, regardless of how many channels I use. I was diving deeper into the bugs the unit has, and some have it some dont. People say if you notice these few bugs then it's best to return and get another one, honestly dont really have the time to keep returning and hoping to get a unit that's bug free.
I will just take my shot on my first one.
Also after looking, I think I may just cancel it and go with Audio advice. I can actually get the clearance price and also 7% cash back. 3% from rakutan and 4% from my CC and that would be nice cause that's almost an additional 200 dollars off
Just feel bad buying from an audio shop and returning it, absolutely do not get there company philosophy. You didn't want to release 8k originally cause it's super buggy and has issues but then you go and release the processor with so many personalization options which are phenomenal and they all dont even function