Well, indeed they don't care for the specs, it's a privilege they don't really have.
The case of nad, with so many problems and bugs!
They just don't work!
Dante is good, but isn't AVB better? It transmits sound and image and there are no problems with latency.
"Good" as in sounded much better than my Denon, because of Dirac.
That's not an over-estimation as much as a practical reality (at least in my case, and I suspect in many). I'm not speaking of simply throwing a processor and speakers into a room - that can be done much more cheaply... I find my older (now secondary) 5.1 setup with just Focal Birds and a Denon AVR to be decently immersive... and the total price for everything was under $5K (they were all closeouts). However, that's not the target demographic for a dedicated, balanced output, prepro either - unless I've seriously misjudged the market.It's always overestimated the total cost of a decent immersive multichannel setup...
Yes, it is expensive, but not necessarily 6 figures.
Neumann 80's are incredible speakers and the cost of 11 of them is quite low.
Also the cost of 4 Neumann sub's is quite low.
An immersive setup with these Neumann speakers, will be more than satisfying, i suppose a breathtaking experience, if you have a well treated room.
You can also try even cheaper active speakers than these Neumann's, for example the adam a7x or even fluid audio coaxial 8" active speakers.
You can find 11 decent speakers at a quite low budget, much lower than a pair of JBL M2, maybe even lower than just one M2, isn't that great? And Dr Floyd Toole's suggestions include that if you are using many speakers, they don't have to be as excellent as they need to be, if they are only two of them available, in a good old stereo setup.
I wonder if that statement is valid to electronics associated with multichannel setups, and i strongly suspect from my experience that it does.
If you try to get the JBL processor instead of monoprice, so that you can use the digital outputs of all 16 channels, which is a very good idea, you have to add the cost of 16 channels of DAC's, don't forget this.
So, the difference in cost is quite noticeable, i suppose it will cost more than double the cost of the monoprice option.
This means, that indeed the monoprice is very cheap for what it is offering. I can understand that many of you see the 4.000 category as "the out of budget" dream, of maybe you set this price by definition to "high end audio", but this is not the case.
Damn, what a missed opportunity! I forgot to mention how much I despise the HDMI interface connectors. Since we are stuck with this, why couldn't they at least implement some style of locking connector?
This. I'm quite disappointed it's not being employed in at least a few models... even just having a monitor out in DP would be better - and would allow for connection to every potential display... including computer monitors which are usually faster and more color-accurate (out of the box at least) than almost any consumer TV. Of course, they're also significantly more expensive... so it's a chicken and egg scenario I guess.
It could work for some, but not for those wanting atmos. Also, I think I remember some complaints regarding noise with the DDRC-88A.
It has always said 100-240V, and in the user manual also. Their support has posted there a message saying that it won't work with 230V but that's false information.
DDRC-88A is over 5 years old platform and hardly SOTA. It requires extra A-D/D-A stage and the end result has much lower SNR and worse THD than for example HTP-1. It's also missing Dirac 2 (it may come someday) and probably will never get Dirac BM.
Very good news.
And the T758 V3 also had lots of software issues that finally are all(?) solved. So is it the same story again with the T778? And who is going to debug it, maybe they should send one to Markus, free of charge
Your perspective of home theater costs and what matters is of course a perfectly valid position to take but I've bolded where my view and I suspect many others differ. I don't recall reading anyone considering the HTP-1 primarily for a dedicated, balanced output, prepro. They are buying it primarily for 16-channels and Dirac, for home theater use. What they also want is fuss free, solid operation (especially with HDMI) as others have noted, not perpetual problem solving. They also get Auro-3D and Roon if they care about those. Given Emotiva's challenges, the combination of these factors makes HTP-1 the most affordable aka cheapest entry point so far for this. Whether customers should buy before promised features are available is certainly debatable, but the platform also plans to offer Dirac BM, an upgrade path to HDMI 2.1 and possibly DTS-X Pro.
), so an extra 50% or $2k is a serious increase in price for them. That $2k could buy 15 channels of amplification (3x Outlaw 5000), or go a long way towards say an Epson 5050 projector or LG OLED, or 6x Ascend Audio speakers or 4x 12" subs from Ascend. Also many only incrementally change their equipment due to budget constraints, so each step has to be affordable for them.
