Products you'd like, that don't exist

[JiiPee]

RME ADI 2/4 PRO features and performance in a package that looks like Accuphase C-2850.

 

[MattHooper]

A very high quality analog crossover with user selectable XO point & slope, high SINAD at a reasonable price. Kinda like a souped up dbx234XL.

The JL Audio CR1 analogue crossover hits all those points except, depending on your budget, “ reasonable price.”

CR-1 Active Subwoofer Crossover - Electronics - Home Audio

www.jlaudio.com

I had one and it’s absolutely brilliant.
I bought it secondhand.

 

[pablolie]

Isn't that this, plus it has Dirac. Test values are very good.

SoundStage! Hi-Fi | SoundStageHiFi.com - miniDSP SHD Power Integrated Amplifier-DAC

www.soundstagehifi.com

that looks excellent, thanks! there should be more of these around...

 

[Snarfie]

Did focus only on your header.

Did make a bunch of custome made ashe tray's for efficient BBQing on a Weber Kettle 57cm.

 

[EJ3]

I'm going to move my house?

I'm thinking about an option a bit cheaper than moving the house further from the street. Besides that I live in a city with a grid layout. So if we drag the house further from the street on the west side, it's just that much closer to the street on the east side. And no change from the even bigger street to the south. The issue is urban noise, not my dwelling.

I'm sorry.
I was not thinking of moving the house. I was thinking of just moving.
To me, there is no reason to live in a City. But we have people on loud motorcycles out here too. Just not as many, I guess.
I live at the end of where there is power & on a small peninsula (about 1000 feet of forest in any direction except in the front of my home [about 20 feet from a river that anything bigger than a 22 foot boat will not make it]).
If you do go past my house (about 2 times a year someone in a huge 6 wheel drive truck manages to), you'll find that you the peninsula narrows to about 100 feet & unless you are amphibious and fast, you are not getting to the forest on the other side of the river.
So you'll just have to turn around & pass my house going back.
I see some power boats a few times a week & about 5 times as many kayakers, canoes & tubers going by.
It's generally pretty quiet, even most of the power boaters aren't running more than a 40 HP outboard on a 15 foot boat and rarely going full blast.

 

[MattHooper]

I did a whole thread on a product I wanted to exist:

My Kingdom For A Remote Volume Knob! can this be made?

I was watching an old Darko video in which he discussed his appreciation for being able to control an audio system with a remote volume knob. He gets to the "why" of this around 51 seconds in: I was like: YES! Someone gets me! I place a high value on the combination of ergonomics and...

www.audiosciencereview.com

I always preferred the tactile sense of a high-quality volume knob over the typical plastic little buttons on remotes, or swiping on my iPhone. So I had wanted a remote had a nice big volume knob, that could sit beside me on the sofa and I could control the volume from there.

There were a variety of remote volume knobs on the market, but the problem was that they were all made to interact with computers.

What I needed was a big volume knob that could learn and operate the IR codes from my legacy two channel equipment, such as my benchmark LA4 and my older Conrad Johnson tube pre-amplifier.

No, such product existed. (with the exception of the gorgeous and outrageously expensive and proprietary Steinway remote control

As luck would have it, a friend of mine was at the Warsaw audio show and came across the booth of a Polish manufacturer who did custom amplifiers and a really cool custom remote control, which was a nice carved ergonomic block of wood with a big knob.
I got in touch with that company and they said they could build me the type of remote I want that could operate my equipment.

And that’s what I ended up doing: having a custom remote volume knob built to my needs.

Couple of photos:

Because the knob is programmable it can do more than just operate volume. A tap of the volume knob, mutes or dim the sound to background level. A push and turn to the right or left changes inputs. IR controls for both my pre-amplifiers, as well as my AV receiver, my Blu-ray player and Apple TV, are also integrated. So depending on what gear I want to operate, I press and hold the volume knob for a moment and a LCD ring around the knob lights up different colours, each colour representing a different piece of gear, and I turn the knob to select the piece of gear I want to operate, press the knob again, and those commands are instantly loaded.

It’s just what I wanted, looks really beautiful in person, really a perfect satisfying, ergonomic size and shape, and the field of operating via volume knob just feels more satisfying and a bit luxurious.

 

[truckers_atlas]

A disruption of the AV receiver and home theater processor market would be nice. We're seeing smaller, more efficient components for 2.1 systems with devices like the WiiM Amp and Ultra, and the Bluesound Node. The second you want to expand beyond that, you have to deal with a big, ugly, inefficient AVR.

My understanding is that Dolby and DTS want their pound of flesh, which is why we haven't seen the new wave of hi-fi companies that are popular here move into this space.

 

[dualazmak]

Edited!
As for DAC unit in my audio chain, at least for myself, I have no interest nor any need of HDMI things nor DSP capabilities nor ADC features nor any audio-interface functions...
(For DSP, i.e. all of XO/EQ/Phase/Inverse-or-Not/Delay/Gain, I like to do them by myself in upstream PC or Mac.)

Please produce and give me, therefore, simple-robust audio only pro-grade reasonably-affordable (I would accept 1.5 times more expensive than DAC8PRO) fully sync 16-Ch DAC unit with dedicated ASIO driver (to be used in Windows PC), as shared in my above post #59!

 

[EJ3]

At least for myself, I have no interest nor any need of HDMI things...

I'll second that remark but don't care about the other, either.
I think that part of it is that I can't be b othered to be staying indoors enough to make something like that worth my while.

I'd rather just go to an IMAX or the like a couple times a year.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

A self-driving system...

all on one chip and it fits in a ring you where...so it knows where you are in the room...it does PEQ, room adjustments, self-balancing, streaming and the screen of an ipad

roon ready of course

 

[EJ3]

A self-driving system...

all on one chip and it fits in a ring you where...so it knows where you are in the room...it does PEQ, room adjustments, self-balancing, streaming and the screen of an ipad

roon ready of course


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I'd rather be outside & have none of it. But since I must be inside sometimes...

 

[MattHooper]

I'll second that remark but don't care about the other, either.
I think that part of it is that I can't be b othered to be staying indoors enough to make something like that worth my while.

I'd rather just go to an IMAX or the like a couple times a year.

I feel somewhat similar, even as a Home Theatre nut.

To me, I will usually choose getting out of the house, having an experience, doing something with people, over sitting at home doing something. So even though I spent a long time making an elaborate projection based Home Theatre, I prefer the experience of going out to the movies.

The funny thing is for the many years I was on the AVS forum I thought other Home Theatre fans shared my view. I thought we all were really into movies and home theatres because it was based on our love of going to the cinema. But when I realized after a while, is it for many if not most it was the opposite; they were building home theatres because they DON’T like going to the cinema!
Which isn’t something I can really relate to.

 

[mglobe]

I did a whole thread on a product I wanted to exist:

My Kingdom For A Remote Volume Knob! can this be made?

I was watching an old Darko video in which he discussed his appreciation for being able to control an audio system with a remote volume knob. He gets to the "why" of this around 51 seconds in: I was like: YES! Someone gets me! I place a high value on the combination of ergonomics and...

www.audiosciencereview.com

I always preferred the tactile sense of a high-quality volume knob over the typical plastic little buttons on remotes, or swiping on my iPhone. So I had wanted a remote had a nice big volume knob, that could sit beside me on the sofa and I could control the volume from there.

There were a variety of remote volume knobs on the market, but the problem was that they were all made to interact with computers.

What I needed was a big volume knob that could learn and operate the IR codes from my legacy two channel equipment, such as my benchmark LA4 and my older Conrad Johnson tube pre-amplifier.

No, such product existed. (with the exception of the gorgeous and outrageously expensive and proprietary Steinway remote control

As luck would have it, a friend of mine was at the Warsaw audio show and came across the booth of a Polish manufacturer who did custom amplifiers and a really cool custom remote control, which was a nice carved ergonomic block of wood with a big knob.
I got in touch with that company and they said they could build me the type of remote I want that could operate my equipment.

And that’s what I ended up doing: having a custom remote volume knob built to my needs.

Couple of photos:

Because the knob is programmable it can do more than just operate volume. A tap of the volume knob, mutes or dim the sound to background level. A push and turn to the right or left changes inputs. IR controls for both my pre-amplifiers, as well as my AV receiver, my Blu-ray player and Apple TV, are also integrated. So depending on what gear I want to operate, I press and hold the volume knob for a moment and a LCD ring around the knob lights up different colours, each colour representing a different piece of gear, and I turn the knob to select the piece of gear I want to operate, press the knob again, and those commands are instantly loaded.

It’s just what I wanted, looks really beautiful in person, really a perfect satisfying, ergonomic size and shape, and the field of operating via volume knob just feels more satisfying and a bit luxurious.

That thread, and this product sent me on a two+ year quest for a similar product that could control Roon AND my MiniDSP Flex. I ultimately figured out how to do both with this.

 

[mglobe]

As soon as I hit enter on the previous post, I realized what I really want. Integration of Apple Music with Roon, or a streamer with true integration of Apple Music and has a Roon Remote-like interface. I hate to say it, but I wish Apple had bought Roon instead of Samsung.

 

[drmevo]

As soon as I hit enter on the previous post, I realized what I really want. Integration of Apple Music with Roon, or a streamer with true integration of Apple Music and has a Roon Remote-like interface. I hate to say it, but I wish Apple had bought Roon instead of Samsung.

Yeah, this was one of my wants as well - not Roon specially, but just support for Apple Music as a streaming option with non-Apple hardware rather than relying on AirPlay. There are so many cons to using AirPlay - just wanna start the stream from my phone and pass it off to a streamer, preferably a WiiM device.

 

[mglobe]

Yeah, this was one of my wants as well - not Roon specially, but just support for Apple Music as a streaming option with non-Apple hardware rather than relying on AirPlay. There are so many cons to using AirPlay - just wanna start the stream from my phone and pass it off to a streamer, preferably a WiiM device.

I'd be happy with that, and I'd drop Roon if I could get that, but I'd be even happier with Roon integration because of the meta data and the user experience. Roon is a tool I value for the ability to explore for new-to-me music.

 

[SorenTyson]

If we can suggest anything, then for someone to reverse engineer the signals that the ears send to our brains, hijack it in a non-surgial way, so we could have perfect sound anywhere without any sound actually played.

Combined with a mic would help deaf people to hear

Same for sight

 

[El Cheapo]

I thought it would be fun to see what sort audio products people might like that don't currently exist.

HDMI Arc to toslink DDC with bit-optimal volume control, to be able to use non-HDMI DACs with TV volume control.
Preferably for less than USD 30. (Could be used with Wiim vibelink which has no remote).

 

[Rednaxela]

An RME ADI-2 DAC FS with 2x10 freely configurable PEQ bands.

 

[Esprit]

A Genelec 9320A in traditional format, with multiple inputs, including HDMI, which can be upgraded to MCH with decoding of the main formats (Dolby Atmos, etc...) and a remote control.