Yes, I remember I preferred PL II over most other settings on my old AVR's before true DD existed.Some of that adjustability was part of Dolby's PLII - since they replaced it in 2014 with "Dolby Surround" - some of those features have disappeared... - and I guess as that change has trickled through generations of AVR's things have changed....
Lots of people swore by PLII for music - including or especially in a LCR setup (3 channel stereo) - results with "Dolby Surround" appear much more hit and miss with music.
I remember someone saying they are sending their RZ50 unit to @amirm for testing, this was maybe 3 months ago. I assume that did not happen.
I would have sent mine directly to Amir if I had known the other member hadn't sent his in. I received it a couple weeks ago and looks identical to my old RZ810 from the front and almost identical on the back but the Dirac Live makes a tremendous difference is SQ, but only with multichannel listening IMO. Huge improvement from Audyssey.
I also read a member's post that affirmatively stated that he sent an RZ50 to Amir a few weeks ago. As I'm sure Amir knows that a review is highly anticipated, I figured we'll be seeing it any day. That being said, I've started wondering if it was never sent in. I'll reach out to Amir directly. I have a unit sitting unopened for the last few weeks. It's replacing an Integra 80.2 pre pro with a crackling/popping rear right channel that I finally decided just had to be replaced (the crackling/popping became more frequent).
Thanks for checking. It could be that he's still writing it up? He seems to get quite a lot of things to review now, but this is a hot item unlike a lot of the products he's reviewed lately.
That's exactly my line of thought. In addition, I get the impression AVR's take longer to test/draft reviews so he may have been trying to get through lesser backlog before tackling the RZ50. I sent a PM to Amir.
I imagine when running uncorrected, the mains are hitting a room resonance/mode, so it gets boosted. My room has a 83hz room mode and so when a speaker plays that low, it gets boosted and there's more bass around 83hz.I'm mildly underwhelmed by my RZ-50 as a speaker system, but to be fair: I followed the AVS procedure first with leveling the speakers the same, had the test tones at borderline working volume (multiple re-measurements), and didn't play too much with the curves beyond grabbing a +6 Harmon.
It is much much clearer and my ears no longer hurt playing at music at reasonable volume for hours, but it also is lacking some of the 'thickness' and low-end that you get just using the non-eq settings. I think can be fixed to a degree by changing the target curve and/or the correction points, how much I'll have to see.
But the headphone out is
Maybe it's just the amount of sheer power it has on tap, but it made my DD IEMs smack. Even the crude tone controls I used on it only made things better and didn't make anything worse.
He said in the video why, because he wanted the standard experience and similar flat response to other room correction software. Audyssey can also make custom curves
I have been a Pioneer Elite owner since maybe mid 1990s...I want either one of these to be able to natively get Multichannel DSD from HDMI. The older Elite SC-57 & SC-99 convert to PCM. However my cheapie VSX-LX503 receiver does show DSD on the front panel. All that to say the PDF sheet on the first page is confusing. One area says DSD playback via HDMI..then another line says with PCM conversion. My guess both of these units will be the same on that. I have a lot of 5.1 SACDs.Any issues with the Outlaw amp. thinking of getting the 7000X.
