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    Advice on speaker selection ?

    I'm 68 and have gone through a lot of speakers. Eventually I found Revel; they have speakers at all reasonable price points and their performance is based on science, not the flowery hogwash you read in reviews. They check their speakers using blinded comparisons against the competition...
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    Anthem AVM60 7.1.4 Preamp/Processor

    I want to thank our moderator for this excellent review and answer a couple questions from Manic 1. I have owned the AVM60 for at least 2 years, and can enthusiastically second the positive review. I've had lots of gear over the years (I'm 69) and Anthem has proven to be totally reliable, very...
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    Anthem avm 60, Marantz 8802a, Emotiva XMC-2 processors

    Thanks for the heads up re a new model, if u get a chance let us know if learn anything about a new model. All the best for 2020.
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    Anthem avm 60, Marantz 8802a, Emotiva XMC-2 processors

    I have had an AVM60 for about 2 years. No bugs or problems, unlike Emo, and the latest ARC Genesis is truly impressive. The AVM 60 will output mono to two subs and ARC will measure them as one. The audioholics folks stated that this is better than individual correction and I agree, esp for...
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    Review: Yamaha R-N803 Network Stereo Receiver

    Hi Todd. Firstly, while I come from an academic research and strong science background, I am not an electrical r acoustical engineer. So just another opinion but in this case I think the argument that YPAO is awful is easy to make. I recently took in a couple podcasts from Audioholics, and...
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    Review: Yamaha R-N803 Network Stereo Receiver

    I had one of these for about a month; the YPAO as stated is worse than useless and shame on Yamaha. I won't comment on the "sound" because that is dependent on so many variables as to be meaningless. I will comment on MusicCast; it was buggier than most of these type of apps and because it...
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