Every time I look at your AV products SINAD chart it makes me chuckle. NAD occupies the best and worst positions, with a difference of 55db.
$17,000 is a lot of money...
How easy is it to set up with so few controls? Does the remote help?
I just got my 16 a day or so ago...
The remote device is way too rudimentary. You’re going to need some sort of tablet at the very least for day to day stuff with a laptop or PC for truly sophisticated operations until you have this tweaked just the way you want it.. A staggering amount of configuration can be done through a web based interface with even more advanced options through what amounts to a virtual desktop environment on the Trinnov…they call this VNC. The Altitudes are basically computers, in the computing world Virtual desktops are all over the place. For Windows heads this is basically a remote desktop environment over Ethernet. Mac has a built in VNC client.
It seems to me that Trinnov’s approach is to provide excellent outputs as a foundation and then correct out everything extraneous to that which interferes . The secret sauce to this is the incredible configuration flexibility in correcting the sound. Holy cow the mic they use to listen to your environment has 4 condensers. It looks like R2D2’s exotic boyfriend. And BTW that mic costs more than most of the cheap DACs reviewed on this site.
There is a later post explaining the cost of parts for this Trinnov as being around $2000. I have built a lot of PCs over time. My last one cost about $10K in parts. I don’t get volume pricing, even so with that in mind I would say he’s low by at least half. Also does anyone have any idea what a software project this sophisticated costs to execute? The answer is TONS of MONEY! And if it sounds great it’s all worth it.
I’m looking forward to this one. I’ve purchased my 16 on the strength of lots of superlative reviews from people I trust. Not on the performce data on a single component out of an entire sytem. We’ll see if it works out