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Power conditioners and power regeneration
@phillyb  The best overall power conditioner you can buy is a PS audio regenerator, P10, P12, P15, or for big systems the mighty P20. That is not accurate. If it were true those conditioners would be in use in every recording studio on the plane... 
Power conditioners and power regeneration
When it comes to power conditioning YES, it adds value to the chain AFTER you have your room acoustics dialed in. I would recommend changing the outlet first (about $100), the conditioner you plug your system into next (I use Black Lion Audio PG2,... 
Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It
The Modern Rock Producer: Steve Wilson Interview: At :45 min in the video below, "listen to records the way you used to listen to records, the way you don’t anymore" on getting people together in a great atmos or acoustics room and taking them on... 
It's coming! My active 3 way center
Welcome to the active CC club! I think we might be the only members.  
Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It
@hsbrock  Technically, to record at 128 discrete locations would require the mixer to combine them faithfully in, what, 128 to what power number of ways to choose from?  When I see the high channel account I think that is for movie theaters. If ... 
Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It
@ghdprentice My job was to evaluate new technology I can see your background in tech when you are dispensing advice in your posts, its very clear and articulate. I also see it in your room, its setup like an engineers space, with precision. ... 
Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It
@ghdprentice  Listen to 25 or 6 to 4 on the album Only the Beginning by Chicago in Dolby Atmos for a good example of having "enough space for everybody":  
Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It
Immersive audio is NOT surround sound, see: Audio Engineer Stan Kybert: So how does Dolby Atmos actually work?  On a technical level, where stereo audio is limited to two channels of output, Atmos offers 128 discrete locations to send audio, wh... 
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
@jpan High five, the wooden rack and the way you treated the windows are inspiring.  
Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It
@ghdprentice I think this comment of yours identifies the point of contention. Playing music and music (movies) by definition is a home theater system. OK. The assumption that a home theater system will reproduce music as well, very few of us... 
Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It
@hsbrock  First of all thanks for your post, very articulate and welcome to the forum. There is nothing else besides stereo. uhhhh, what about the Beatles recording in mono BEFORE the albums were converted to stereo?  https://en.wikipedia.org/... 
Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It
@mahgister  «I don’t know what happens when we die,  We get to meet Elvis (I hope) :)  
What new gear have you just bought?
I bought a new Amazon 4K Firestick with the upgraded wifi connection for my new router. The video, meh. But the audio on Tidal music, nice upgrade (actually shocking via HDMI into my processor) and it was less than $50 on sale.  
Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It
@kennyc This seems like a discussion between a surround sound system vs 2 channel. Well it sounds that way, but not. Surround sound never stuck, DVD-A, SACD, never caught on and while better than redbook, SACD or DVD-A were more expensive than ... 
What's a Good Way to Buy Music Collections?
@curiousjim  You can find lots of CD's on EBAY for about 25 cents a disc, it is kind of a grab bag which is fine with me. I would prefer not to have to rip but it is a good suggestion, thanks