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Do NOT Blow Your Entire Budget on Two Channel Audio

Yes, two channel audio is here, and is not going away. However, object based audio is delightful, widely available on Tidal and Apple Music, and should be in the listening room of every music lover on the planet, not just "audiophiles. If you plan to be a music fan a year from now start building your object based audio system today. You will need:

1) A receiver/processor capable of Dolby Atmos.

2) A subscription to Tidal or Apple music.

3) A Firestick, ATV, or Nvidia Shield.

4) A minimum of 7 timber matched speakers and a subwoofer.

Once you experienced stereo would you ever go back to only mono? No, you would build a system capable of either mono or stereo. Now that object based audio has arrived do the same thing. Build a system capable of mono, stereo, AND object based audio. When Elton John heard Rocket Man in an object based format for the first time why did he demand to convert his entire catalog to Atmos? If you don’t know, then you need to go listen to Rocket Man in a good Atmos setup ASAP.

So, take your budget, DIVERSIFY, and get a good Atmos capable receiver or processor. Object based audio is NOT last decades surround sound or home theater. It is for MUSIC first, if you need a recommendation on how to allocate your budget feel free to post a question. Most importantly, you don’t NEED two systems, one for music and one for movies. A good object based audio system can play two channel music just fine. A two channel system on the other hand can’t play object based audio without a proper processor or receiver.

Greg Penny talks mixing Rocket Man in Atmos.

https://youtu.be/ggzfcUKDqdo?feature=shared

 

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Wow!!! Stunning, love the room treatments, functional AND aesthetically pleasing. The seating looks great and those BHK amps must sound great, another member here had some maintenance issues.

@donavabdear , how are your BHK's doing? You need to check out @fittebd room, seems like you guys have a similar taste.

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When it comes to great audio reproduction, it's not a matter of age. For punks to use ageism as their rational for elevating what amounts to a glorified PA system is laughable. 

Why is it when someone gets the better of someone else, they attribute it to anger when they are the ones flying off the handle, handing out insults to well reasoned arguments? Lots of projection going on here, especially with the use of "audio karens".

Let no one forget who was banned for most of a day for his virulent attacks on members for not seeing things his way. That is what an "audio karen" is.

All the best,
Nonoise

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@kota1 
Love love love my BHK 300 mono blocks 100%. My BHK preamp is about to become a Luxman when their new preamp comes out in September, the preamp sounds great but it's simply to noisy, I have a Lyngdorf preamp that is dead quiet but it doesn't sound like a tube, simple as that. 

My PS Audio DAC MK 2 is great, My PS Audio Transport is great. I'm having a hard time finding equipment that sounds better, even replacing my speakers with next level speakers aren't really sounding better in a significant way, I think my Paradigm 9Hs and the JL 113 v2 subs work very well together, strange when I want to upgrade but can't, I guess that's a good problem. 

 

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Just a note of caution, I'm seeing a lot of room absorption all over the place, having a room that is to dry is much worse than a room that is a little to wet, error on the side of wet. I just bought some absorption and I'm right to the point where I don't like my room as much, even sitting int he room with no music isn't as happy. There are so many psychoacoustic interplays in acoustics.

Be careful

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