So I’m a little confused by this and I’m sure it’s me and not you but let me
ask. What do you mean get up off the couch? I have an integrated receiver
that has a remote that’s way inaccessible but also is controllable over the web
and by all sorts of alternate devices. My fat backside can switch from 8 HDMI
inputs, a bunch of optical inputs, XM radio, HD radio, streaming from all sorts
of sources like Pandora, itunes capable, and gives me 9.1 audio with buckets
and buckets of power per channel including the same amount per channel in the
back and sides as the front. Each channel uses several high end Burr Brown 24
bit Dacs with several whopper floating point shark processors for the DSP.
Also speaks every surround standard I’ve heard of and a bunch of dolby varients
I haven’t. The DTS is pretty good. Now is it as good as discrete components
and all hand wound coils and all that, no but it’s better than the average junk
you’ll grab at Best Buy or Walmart. Actually you could get in the Magnolia
audio sections of Bestbuy so that might not be a good example. So what do you
mean by get off the couch?
Even with super high end options I had remotes all be it very simple.
Some devices have physical knobs and very limited controls, I was always amazed
how minimalist the really high end gear is but let’s say in the $10,000 or less
space where most high end home theater lies won’t you have all the remote
options and interconnection options you could want? You’re still using the
same craptastic compressed digital audio so again this might be a lot of gear
for nothing but I will say a nice high bandwidth recording like a high end DTS
music recording (losslessish) or super audio CD etc sounds pretty stunning on a
better than average Denon receiver. Not like my old Krell KSA160 but pretty
good, better than a sound bar anyway.
(although I do have a sound bar in the bedroom)
The one area I think people might not want to get off the couch is the initial
installation and setup. It’s harder than your average apple product but you
could pay the $$$ to have someone install it if you felt overwhelmed.
It makes me sad we’re talking about the end of good audio here.
On 6/27/16, 3:29 AM, "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <[email protected] on
behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
Yeah, good speakers aren’t a thing any more because “Good enough”. There must
be a solution to this problem. Nobody wants to build up an expensive component
system because playing your media from analog or digital sources requires
physical effort and requires actually getting up off the sofa. And you have to
actually pay attention to the output and not, say, fiddle around with your
smartphone.
And there is a solution: big speakers you connect to your network. Only
everyone in this game has their own stupid proprietary solution (AirPlay,
Sonos, ChromeCast Audio) the result of which is that we still haven’t actually
solved the problem of how you get your computing devices to command your
speakers to make noises using data stored on your NAS or from the cloud over
your fast pipe. That’s where we’ve got to go. Get all your CDs, DVDs, tapes,
LPs ripped into the best lossless formats that make sense, or get the HD
equivalents, and we can do this, someday. Just as soon as the studios pull
their fingers out of their bottoms and acknowledge that there’s a market for
high-quality masters.
--
The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries
list.
If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn
- you can reach Cara at [email protected]
The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"MacVisionaries" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
--
The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries
list.
If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn
- you can reach Cara at [email protected]
The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"MacVisionaries" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
