Recent content by symphara

I went to my now father-in-law's apartment for the first time, around 2000 (can't even remember). He had a sound proofed room with big Magnat speakers, surround sound speakers, a subwoofer, a Harman-Kardon surround sound receiver and a projector. It was amazing and the microbe fully set in. In...

The other separates in the series are thousands, they could have included SACD capability and upped the price from the measly $349 but what do I know...

I have to say, I love the look - the whole Icon series looks high class. Shame they didn't offer SACD playback with this one.

Oh that's a shame. Thank you for following up so quickly!

They look really nice! I wonder if any of the P-80's analog inputs can be configured as HT bypass? I could use one to add Dirac to my system.

Very interesting, a lot of work has gone into this. Thank you!

Class D, Dirac, I’m in the market for s 5.1.4 receiver and their top of the range sounds interesting and a contender for the Denon 3800H.

Honestly I don't know, I look at the spec sheet and I'm really puzzled. If a boutique company like Lyngdorf can make a device that does almost everything* this one does except it has more power, includes one of the best room correction systems on the market (complete with a high quality...

At this price it should have room correction. Otherwise you have better options from Lyngdorf (with RoomPerfect) and NAD (with Dirac). Without room correction there's the EVO 150 from Cambridge Audio, with similar streaming capabilities but a lot more power.

Well it was thouroughly measured, it’s not a subjective opinion… NAD stuff hasn’t fared so well lately, in general. I think just the M33 got a pass. I’m quoting just from memory so could be entirely wrong, but I believe this receiver is compatible with modules v1 and there isn‘t and extremely...

Wasn‘t this kindof skewered on ASR for being rather mediocre? I was looking into buying one but no HDMI 2.1 and lots of bugs and problems in the owners’ threads.

One split into two.

Todd, it’s been so nice that you’ve been carrying the torch on these new AV receivers and they turned out not to be vapourware. Thank you!

This manual suggests to me that you need to measure each speaker in all the mike positions before moving on to the next speaker. Is this so? Seems cumbersome. Normally measurements are done for all speakers in a given mike position. At least that's the case for Audyssey, ARC, YPAO.

He’s got a pre-production model to demo the HDMI features. I’m also eager to hear any info on the new receivers, but no joy so far. I don’t even know if there‘s any difference whatsoever between the 505 vs the RZ50 apart from the chassis and branding.