Recent content by Mr.Satyre

Spend thousands on the ICON preamp, amp, and integrated---with balanced ins---but only $349 for a rebadged 7030 with no additional balanced outs. I'm sensing a disconnect here. 🤔

Just seeing this now. More power and balanced I/O 805 has more power and balanced I/O, as well as somewhat more refined handling of digital audio sources.

I always took exception to the way Voxx/Klipsch treats firmware updates. Regardless of who did what, or who's to blame, firmware is as solid a selling feature as any hard button option: ALL firmware should be trumpeted from the highest tower to notify customers that their investment has just...

I'm not entirely sure. Two things happened right around the same time, that in themselves made lasting impressions on me (what the room looked like, what the lighting was like, even the smells), but where they happened escapes me. I remember my dad and I visiting a high-end audio dealer in VA...

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh! The HDMI debacle was 15 years ago now! Fixed 10 years ago. Onkyo will never live that down. And now we have HDMI 2.2 to look forward to. 😵‍💫

Adding Dirac Live Full Bandwidth give years ago was really the one thing that saved Onkyo from extinction, and, being (for the most part) free to the end-user, a huge step beyond the competition. Missing the boat on ART is a huge fumble, even if it takes D&M another year to implement. "He who...

Even though this didn't happen on my watch, I'm quite humiliated ART has not been announced for Onkyo AVRs.

Oh, they're the least of my concerns. 😉 Pioneer's home audio products as we've known them, are probably a footnote in the pages of history. ☹️

I wish I knew what the future holds. It's all very much up in the air now.

Back when I was a sales trainer, I once had a dealer apologize profusely that he had only one sales person for me to train after previously promising a dozen. I shrugged it off saying I was just as happy training one person as I was training 100. Knowing that I've helped satisfy just one...

All excellent points, and many of which we desperately wanted to address in the 805, but of course we had to really analyze each to the point of exhaustion and decide what we could and couldn't accomplish with the budget and parts availability situation at the time it was developed. I don't know...

Ah, your super salesman sounds like he's a Class D fanatic. While there's certainly nothing wrong with that, there is literally no comparison between the two AVRs. I was on the 82 team, not as a lead back then, but as an development advisor, and as technical sales trainer and marketing...

Couldn't find the brochure, but here's a link to the manual https://www.manualslib.com/manual/130416/Pioneer-Pdsp-1.html

Each driver was about the size of a US quarter. I remember being way more impressed with the technology than I was with the sound. I may still have a brochure on it...let me dig around.

I don't recall any active collaborations with Meridian, but that doesn't mean there were never any talks above my pay grade. As far as prototype speakers that we showed, one was an absolutely atrocious-sounding powerline-type that, as the name implied, sent audio signals to the speakers over...