WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON CABLES AND EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD?

@tonydennison

@calvinj systems, blows your stuff away for sure.

Great, I’m happy if he’s happy, more power to him. He’s got a great story, being in the right place at the right time and then migrating into the business. He built what he wanted, I built what I wanted, they are different for sure. But I gots to tell you, my room does audio, channel and object based, throws up a 100 inch 4K image that pops, I got 4 sweet spots not one because of acoustic astuteness and a NAS drive full of movies, concerts and music. My two channel flows through a separate dac/pre/headphone amp that took five years for the top engineers at Sony to design with an unlimited budget straight into a pair of Paradigm legendary reference active 40 speakers.

My object based preamp controls 9.3.6 channels of pinpoint soundstage with the latest object based music being dropped nightly into my system from Amazon and Tidal. Movies? Fuhgeddaboudit!!

I can and do get a LOT of enjoyment. 😎

@kota1 

Thank you for the compliment- it took me a while to put this little space together simply because of the sound I wanted to achieve and the discretionary funds it took to make it happen.

And yes, I think we can all agree that a well setup/tuned room is at the top of the list when going down this road.

And for everyone else- swing by the music forum and check out the title I just listed under “What’s playing on your system today”, it’s awesome! (If you like that stuff)

@kota1 that sounds nice. Man. Enjoy it all. I been lucky in this hobby but your setup sounds like it can do it all on demand. That’s a good place to be. 

@dayglow 

The issue is you can NOT turn an Emotiva amp into an Esoteric amplifier even with proper room acoustics

I think you missed the main point, take an Esoteric amplifier and stick it in a bad room and you should have just bought the Emotiva instead, you can't fix acoustics with an amp, sorry.

I will take a great room with a pair of XPA HC-1 Emotiva monoblocks ($1800 for a pair) over a bad room with a $$$$ amp any day, all day, with pleasure.

Now if I can have a good room AND a $$$$ amp that is totally different 🤩

@kota1 i will say this. Having a great room helps tremendously but a really great amp in a bad room is still gonna perform well. If it is a great amp. Great amps don’t need perfect room acoustics they just don’t. It would help but you still gonna get a great sound.