@gene Excellent video concerning measurements and I am looking forward to your practical use video/review And your experience with YPAO and the PEQs. A couple questions that I assume you’ll address anyway, but just in case:
-Do the new Aventage receivers have anything like D&M for “turning off” selectable amps? Or a preamp mode? Ideally one could use an external amp for front two (balanced) or maybe three channels and onboard amps for effects channels without losing too much performance. Especially for Spatial music.
* How assignable are the amps? Let’s say I use an NAD C298 for the LR channels, can I use the A6 for my 5.2.6 (four ceiling speakers and two front wides)?
-Can you use PEQs for full frequency range (well points along the full range) and keep the analog inputs in a true analog (pure direct) path? I just ordered an Ares 2 to use downstream of my Node and CD transport and it would be cool if you could EQ points of the range and still be analog (not possible on my AVM 70 - matter of fact I am finding the analog path being average in that processor).
-I understand the lackluster HDMI multichannel performance likely isn’t audible, especially with YPAO engaged and for soundtracks where the output is mostly effects (well not the center channel) anyway, how do you feel it would manifest itself in Atmos music tracks? Or would it?
That’s about it for now. I seem to be in a never ending quest for the perfect 2CH/11CH system at the lowest budget possible…. I thought the AVM 70 was it, and it may be as I love the UI and ARC, but I am not loving the Analog performance. I like the idea of balanced inputs for sources like the Denafrips, even more so than amplifier outputs, so maybe the Yamaha could serve my needs. Or perhaps I should have just bought an SR-8015.
Thank you.