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@thespeakerdude That's why groups like the AES exists to set up standards and practices so the music industry and the film industry will be sustainable. it really is amazing how consistent music and films actually are. To audiophiles with expensiv... 
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@brianlucey That's exactly what I did Naim was supposed to be good and class A but I compare my headphone setup with my personal system and it sounds more like my Genelec system. I think the headphones are good what would be a suggestion for the a... 
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Also I have what should be a very good headphone setup, Focal Stellia and a Naim amp designed for headphones. the headphones and amp were about $8k  The headphones sound ok they have never really thrilled me. I thought having expensive headphones... 
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Why can't you repair class D amps? You can't fix them just replace the components that have failed. I have no experience working class D amps.   
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So what’s the difference in my Protools / Genelec Dolby atmos system and my personal system, both cost just under $200k, are in the same room but 90 degrees apart. My personal system has all passive speakers except the subs 2x 3k W each and the hy... 
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  @kingharold great story, I’m sure there was a lot of frustration, so glad you hung in there over all that time. @lonemountain great post and you are right it is important to keep the signal the same level as best you can, doing crossover work... 
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kota1 Ya know rooms are weird concerning acoustics, the best studios I've been in have sounded really strange definitely not the dark room with perfect RT-60 dissipation, smooth reverb. One of the very frustrating parts of acoustics to me is that ... 
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mijostyn Also, I've only done sound all my life and I've come across an interesting thing. People that are really good at it are into other things like your woodwork, many of my friends and the people that I look up to in the industry strangely en... 
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mijostyn Thank you for the piano recording notes, I'll listen to them with nothing else going on, the house quiet, my wife sleeping, my mind at ease, no caffeine and my tubes warmed up.  How do you feel about my point about my piano making sound ... 
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kota1 This was one of the most expensive pieces of sound equipment I've ever purchased but wow, the sound is perfect, like you said no speakers no mics no transducers AD converters or anything. Often Steinway has a person do a concert and you can ... 
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mijostyn I have a wonderful Steinway Grand piano it is a Spiro/r which means it uses a digital mechanical mechanism that will play the piano every key hits the strings with a resolution of 1000 levels of amplitude, the /r means it records also. I'... 
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thespeakerdude Atmos object oriented mixing is a good bet for the future, systems will become smaller and more efficient in terms of efficiency and specificity in accurate imaging, it's all over the place now, even theaters can't keep up with prop... 
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kota1, I'm not an expert in Dolby Atmos even though I've got a system, I just bought it to do a movie I was going to produce and pay for myself. I have a technical background, Physics and engineering in college and got to do some wonderful acousti... 
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brianlucey Also 30 years of live mixing and mixing orchestras, also sound for plays, also sound for radio shows, also sound for commercial buildings, also setting up sound systems for concerts, also working on recording studio sound systems, also ...