Recent content by Mr.Satyre

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...

A couple of Meridian memories sprang to mind: One is my first hands on with Meridian's earliest digital speakers during my sophomore retail sales days. I hadn't any prior exposure to that design philosophy before, and that was a real eye-opener. The other is at either my 2nd or 3rd CES while...

Ah, my bad! Yes, PQFS and PQLS are Pioneer-specific technologies, and those were the "aces" up Pioneer's sleeve. 😁

PQFS is always active when accessing any digital streaming source. I'm not aware of any way to turn it off, at least when I was working with the Japan team (but now that you mention it, it's an interesting point that PQLS can be turned on and off, but PQFA can't be turned off) (I seem to...