So, here it is. Geek Squad guys were cool. I had to take some work calls when they were here so I didn't get to see the whole process. He gives me a demo of the apps and settings, and turns on ARC for this. He played "Those Shoes" by the Eagles. Cool song, I hadn't heard before. Anyway, after turning on ARC, which I don't normally like, I turned it off as soon as they left. He starts digging into the settings on the Yamaha 3060. He goes into Amp assign and changes it from basic to something else. Then goes into the level adjustments and bumps up my center channel by about 4dbs. At this point, I'm starting to develop a twitch. THEN he goes behind my Rythmik sub and starts messing around....I 'm still smiling, but it's becoming a bit of a strained smile ...
Turned out he turned on the PEQ on the sub...then he says, "There you go"! Everything's configured! I say.. thank you! Still smiling...but inside, I'm saying dude...WTF.....hands in pocket so he doesn't see the twitching...LOL. It didn't sound quite right to me, so I broke out the mic and tripod, ran YPAO again and tweaked it from there. I go back and forth between EQ and no EQ. In all seriousness though, they were good guys, and honestly, it was nice to have some dudes in my house who get as geeked (no pun intended) about this stuff as I do. I used to have people over to listen to music when I lived in Philly, not so much here in AZ....I guess that's a good thing nowadays.
Anyway...the TV. I need to do some tweaking of the picture settings for sure. But the colors seems pretty accurate from what I can tell. One thing he missed was, you need to go into the HDMI inputs and change them all from standard to enhanced. The picture doesn't seem quite as good as my Sony 930D yet, but I tweaked that set for weeks... so hopefully this one will get there. It's pretty damn big for sure...biggest TV I ever had anyway. They didn't hide the wires, so I had to run out and get something to hid them. I just didn't want to cut into the walls. So I got the Lagrand Cordmate III and painted it to blend in.. Gonna sit back and watch and do some playing with the settings.
