Do NOT Blow Your Entire Budget on Two Channel Audio

@tvrgeek

Audiolab 6000 integrated

I use the DTS Play-Fi ecosystem and see the companion streamer from Audiolab the 6000N is on sale for around 50% off. I don’t need a streamer, I am using a Paradigm Link (with ARC room correction) because I have Paradigm speakers. Do you think the Audiolab 6000N streamer would be a WOW?

Monoprice sub.

I just added a third sub to my system, a Monoprice Slim 12 incher that I wall mounted in the back of my room, you can see the pic in my virtual system. Incredible bass from a slim unit and under $200! I wanted to have a sub up near my height speakers.

Unfortunately prestige, looks, and ego drive the high end market.

I asked a dealer about upgrading from my current processor, he is a straight shooter. He said you can upgrade features if I go up a level in the same brand but the SQ will be about the same.

No amount of user end electronics can make the source better

That’s why atmos music has helped my system, sometimes the remix can sound better than a mix from back in the day. See this box set from the Beach Boys:

The collection boasts 24 new mixes including two first-time stereo mixes, plus 22 new-and-improved stereo mixes, which in some cases feature the latest in digital stereo extraction technology, allowing for the team to separate the original mono backing tracks for the first time.

I stream on my PC as I flat won't put up with UIs based on a phone, so that makes internal streamers and even boxes irrelevant to me.  Old guy who makes, get this novel use, PHONE CALLS from my phone.   Yes, we are a dying breed. 

i am a dinausaurs too... I dont use phone for movies, music, and texting or for any computer use...

I like phone for calls necessities ONLY..

I own a old flap phone because it is smaller and indestructible from 15 years ago...

Seeing people on phone all around me revulse me...

I come from a world where you were speaking to people around you in priority.,..

The most advanced civilization are way over technology... It is a threshold to pass after autodestruction tentation or attempts... 😊

To stay in this thread matter boundaries "spectacular" is not "musical"... The way we acoustically recorded classical music , be it Indian raga or Beethoven symphonies, has nothing to do with "spectacular" effects...It is supposed to be musical...

3/d acoustic is not surround object based audio... We can conciliate the two but the aim is different ...It is why i stay in 3/D stereo...

I stream on my PC as I flat won’t put up with UIs based on a phone, so that makes internal streamers and even boxes irrelevant to me. Old guy who makes, get this novel use, PHONE CALLS from my phone. Yes, we are a dying breed.

As far as phones go that is the way the majority of people consume music today, using bluetooth ear buds. I replaced my phone with a very nice DAP from Onkyo, the DP-X1 and it sounds great, is android based so I can use it to control my system and use the play-fi app for streaming. One DAP to rule them all:

@invalid 

re " When you listen to live music, the musicians are in front of you, not all around you. Sounds like a gatekeeping money grab to me."

That is just a practical limitation of delivering live music to an audience.

But why do we have to be limited to that when Atmos can put us sitting in the midst of a String quartet. 

Not a gimmick, a paradigm shift !