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@closenplay

Thanks for your post, and appreciate your sense of humor. Would be great to check out your virtual system if you could post something. Do you have two systems, one for stereo and one for home theater? In honor of your five year anniversary of being a member here and your 52nd post:

@donavabdear

I’ve spent millions on professional equipment through the years

No award needed for that milestone, respect, even if it was with OPM.

There is so much misinformation about equipment

Its good you joined this forum, what got me through the mysteries of the audio world was stumbling across the Dolby specs when I first got into this hobby with a 5.1 system. I have kind of had one eye open thanks to those specs regarding speaker placement and room setup.

The only way to be content in your system is to not listen to better systems,

What got me to be content was discovering audio "hacks". When I found out I could hack amp spending by going active and get crazy amounts of power for basically the same cost as a good passive speaker, KACHING! When I found out a $300 Zidoo Android box could hack a dolby vision output with my HDR PJ saving me $$$$ on DV content and a DV PJ (which are almost unobtainium) KACHING. I hacked needing to stock pile SACD discs by having a DAC that remasters any content to DSD (Sony knows DSD) KACHING. When I inevitably do lust after new gear (more subs at the moment) I can at least figure out another hack. For my four sub solution it will be getting a DSPeaker 8033 II ($350) instead of buying a new processor with 4 sub outs ($7K). Now, that is not to say if I hadn’t hacked it would be better, but I love every time I go to a movie theater and compare that system to my own and it is no contest in terms of SQ, mine is much more refined.

@donavabdear 

What is your take on this mike:

@kota1 This microphone has all of its capsules very close together that's good for phasing but bad for proper interpretation of direction. It's great that you can record each capsule on its own track but bad that it is designed for Adat / light pipe a format that is going away. 

Surround recording should be recorded with a fake head in a binaural format because that is how we hear all other recordings are improper. They may sound wonderful but they aren't accurate by definition. I have done very few surround recordings but adding the channels by force for the XYZ axis information to be interpreted by your brain somehow to me seems like looking down the wrong path.