Thinking about a Steinway Lyngdorf system

Breaking down the model B:

Here is Peter Lyngdorf discussing his companies approach to surround speakers. He says he doesn’t see much value in going fron 12 to 16 speakers. Thanks you Peter! I am NOT going to upgrade to a 15/16 channel processor because what he says in this video makes perfect sense.

@donavabdear 

I can appreciate that his company might not offer a strict cc speaker so I kind of took that for what it was. I realize that the CC is non negotiable in my HT.

@donavabdear 

Did you pull the trigger on these or something else since you started this thread?

@donavabdear

Sounds like a win/win, nice to know you got a good room.

BTW, my active speaker journey continues, got a pair of DefTech W9 active on the back porch, a pair Paradigm Active Shift A2 on the desktop, a single active A2 in the kitchen. The Deftechs are small and sound huge, even on the porch with 0 acoustic treatments, can’t believe the amount of bass they throw. Also added a third active sub on my back wall, off the floor midway between the floor and the ceiling, posted a pic. The Sony dac has been a great addition, I have my streamer, CDP, and DAP connected to it and set it to remaster everything in DSD. Nice upgrade to typical streaming. The headphone amp of it sounds great too, now I need to upgrade the headphones. Can you recommend a balanced pair?

@donavabdear 

The Sony TAZH1ES has a DSD remastering engine:

according to Sony “combines a high-performance DSP (digital signal processing) and FPGA (field-programmable gate array) to convert any signal into DSD128 signals. It was designed based on the know-how garnered from Sony’s 8-times oversampling and Extended SBM (Super Bit Mapping) technology for professional recorders.”

see page 28 in the manual:

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/res/manuals/4598/45982541M.pdf

From the webpage:

Convert any source to DSD

Personalizing sound with the new DSD Remastering Engine. Offering double the conversion accuracy of previous models, the new DSD Remastering Engine let you convert all PCM music sources into DSD 11.2 MHz. The technology uses FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) to convert any signal into the DSD sound format.

https://electronics.sony.com/audio/audio-components/hi-res-audio/p/tazh1es

@donavabdear

You know the guy running PSAudio loves DSD (I think he has a label). I think all of these hirez formats have withered because of lack of demand. I don’t see a lot of Spotify users switching to Tidal or Quboz to get hirez. As for Apple they changed the industry overnight when they launched spatial audio as the recording and mixing studios have been converting to support that format in droves. I use Tidal for my atmos streams, for some reason apple just had a different tone on my rig, a bit brighter. 

See:

https://www.mixonline.com/tag/atmos

Can you recommend a balanced headphone for me? I could get the matching Sony’s but thought it would be good to check out a few. I have never been a headphone guy.

Thanks, I am thinking over the ear but they also have in ear monitors in the signature line:

https://youtu.be/ySNab0IBf-4

https://youtu.be/wWfYh3S5izQ