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or you can get a Denon AVR with excellent preouts that always works and just add amplification. The unused amp section can power a separate zone of audio....

You say that as if its a fact when it couldn't be further from the truth, at least at Audioholics. James Larson gets paid the same fee for every review he does for us, good or bad. He NEVER keeps a single product he reviews for himself. Unless you have proof of such an acquisition about any...

Where are you located? Too bad I can't find local audio engineers in Tampa area.

Good points and agreed it was a mistake for me to defend and engage the haters on ASR. I sometimes take this stuff too personally especially when people are making false accusations against our business and especially our writers. Lesson learned. It will be interesting to see what Starke does...

Yea I should have either omitted that measurement or better prequalified it. It was odd that Storm didn't really comment on it when I submitted my test results to them other than to tell me they are working on a new high performance DAC. I absolutely love the Storm ISP MK2 even if it isn't as...

Absolutely. I always test at 192khz and get better results on product that doesn't Downsample to 48khz. They can do better.

100% agreed. Last Gen upmixers from Dolby and DTS were better at upmixing 7.1 than the Immersive ones. Less artifacting too from my experience.

Yep I fought to get Dolby "Center Spread" back on Denon/Marantz receivers and they did for 2020 and newer. Make sure you enable it for 2CH music Upmixing.

The reality is Auro has no content. If you want to use the upmixer, that's cool. I'm not a fan of Dolby business practices but they are the UHD and streaming standard for Immersive Audio and that isn't changing anytime soon.

Yep, if Auro was so great, more professionals like Anthony Grimani, David Frangioni, etc would be installing Auro theaters, selecting the core Dolby track and bypassing Atmos, and upmixing to Auro. They aren't! It reeks of an act of desperation or just willful ignorance.

There is a lot of propaganda in that video so tread lightly. There seems to be a concerted effort to claim Auro upmixing superiority since its failed as a native format. I did some 2CH upmixing tests last night between the DSU, DTS:X and Auro 3D and all the Auro folk, including Wilfred and...

Yea it's fine, though still not SOTA but not bad. I don't use the DAC for the front LCR's since I have the separate Marani DSP running for the active speaker setup.

You're right and that measurement looks worse than it really is. Someone send me a link to Amir's commentary about this and I looked over my other measurements I didn't publish. What this graph is actually showing is a combination of the down-sampling behaviour, anti-aliasing filters and the...

I had to help my daughter multiplying/dividing and simplifying exponents tonight. It's amazing how much you forget when you don't use it. Believe me, calculators like Peng linked to, I use all the time.

I did some 2CH upmixing comparisons with the front LCR's turned off on my Storm Audio ISP MK2 processor last night and got interesting results. Check out my YT Video here: If anyone has all 3 formats, please recreate this experiment using Dominque Fils-Aime track Birds. DSU - best layering...

Don't be lazy, know the math ;)

So if you look at the RMS level on the vertical scale for this measurement, it's around 5.6dbV. To convert dBv to Volts(rms) you do alog(dbV/20) which in this case would be alog (5.6/20) or 1.9Vrms.

Not yet. Writing up my bench test report first then testing YPAO next,.

I think the build quality and parts used on the Yamaha are mostly top notch. I just think its a combination of bad software development and perhaps not properly vetting the design before releasing. The did use lower grade dacs on some of the channels and perhaps they also used different VC ICs...