Channa gets a TV!
Bose buys McIntosh and associated brands. Channa Travels to New York to be a judge at an Ultra Short Throw Projector Showdown. Do Projector screens matter?
What are some good alternatives to Arendal 1723 Towers? Binaural renderer from Apple. Upmixing front wides. Two SVS PB 4000's now or one PB17 for now. Valerion pro2 for a blackout room?
Valerion goes Triple Laser for light source. Arendal or Klipsch? Front wide situation. HD Fury taking care of Dolby Vision for Projectors. Wharfedale, KEF Concerto, or MoFi Source Point 8?
Surrounds that are to close, what can be done? Onkyo get Dirac Bass Control. House curves that go BOOM! Magic Beans Unified Bass, what is it?
Magic Beans Audio: https://magicbeansaudio.com
Spatial Audio Calibration Toolkit: https://spatialcd.com
KEF Concerto, RSL, Bass Traps, AC Infinity keeping things cool, SVS Ultra, Elac, 16 channel processors are assembling!
Fosi Class D, Mixing Subwoofers, Are Bass Traps a Necessity?, Reference dB's?
WiiM products as a poor mans miniDSP? Is there a preferred in room response? The Arendal 1528 Series is coming soon!
Channa would like a 105" Monitor that is in a 21:9 Aspect ratio for his studio! Trinnov Waveforming; is it a "wow" technology?
Erin gets bit by a dog, and doesn't almost die. Close one though. Joe takes on to fixing one of Erin's most loathed speakers. We talk DSP correction. And can you trust a pro to calibrate your set up? Will it be different, better or worse than what you already have? Could be all three! Or just one, or two of those.
We talk the hottest show in all the land! CEDIA 2024! Trinnov, Storm, JBL, etc. etc! Klipsch has Dirac in a soundbar! Grimani systems showed a less expensive system than last year. And so much more!
What 16 Channel processors would you like to see go head to head? Do you think there will be dramatic differences?
What would you want with a streamer? What are the top two or three streamer "needs" for you? Aperion Audio A5 coaxial. Magic Beans Audio gets a few good comments. Four channel amp for height speakers. Or front channel amps?
Channa gets some ATS Acoustics panels. Should our viewer get Magic Beans first or a miniDSP 2x4HD? Also Joe has some awesome looking speakers coming in soon!!! But will they sound as good as they look?
Channa's video on his acoustic panel set up: https://youtu.be/ulymcG936ew?si=mqPeipU3W_jALd1i
Going from a receiver & 2.1 preamp - combo - to a Marantz AV10? An age old question: Klipsch VS JBL? Which one wins this round?
We go over Erin's review of the Infinity Primus 360. And we bring up our favs for 2024 products so far!
Erin's Review: https://youtu.be/AqXFeENMCJo?si=xTLw8kOpex0iHx4-
What is Magic Beans Audio cooking up. maybe a MSO light? Or Something along those lines? Yamaha R-N2000A vs WiiM Amp, ABX tests round two. Erin, yes our own Erin Hardison, tried YPAO! Did it go ok for Yamaha or no, listen to find out?
Ranging from a 5.1.4 to a coming 9.1.6. We have a pretty full range of setups! We also talk Dirac ART and how it is not coming to Denon or Marantz this year. Wendell asks about what he needs for a Magic Beans setup. Zidoo goes upscaling, 8K upscaling! And so much more in this episode!
Thanks for listening!
If Class D is nor power efficient, why aren't there more receivers using that? We also talk about a Marantz vs another Marantz vs a Tone Winner PrePro.
miniDSP EQ'ing Subwoofers then a AVR's correction doing the same? When is it ok to do that and when is it not?
