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200 cubit feet is less than 6 feet on a side.

I like the 4k version.

It's laughable that someone thinks CD music is superior to vinyl. Now, High Fidelity Audio, or similar, is worth comparing to Vinyl. Regardless of the argument, vinyl will always have a place in music. No matter how good High Fidelity Audio is, it's still not vinyl, and with high end...

On a side note... I downloaded a sample 24/192 music file. It was less than 40 seconds long, but very impressive sound. I was pleasantly surprised just how much better it sounded over 320kb mp3 files. The only mp3s at 320kb I have is classical music. Everything else I have is mid level mp3...

I usually just plug my phone into the radio and select a playlist. I mean, the only real reason for me to upgrade the car radio is so that I wouldn't have to physically plug my phone into the radio. Hardly worth spending hundreds of dollars for that convenience.

In any event I don't want the thread to veer too much into a different subject.

Bump? In the car, I just use music in the background. Only occasionally do I turn it up to focus on a particular song. I have an older car, and music, to a degree, but not too much, competes with road noise. Certainly compared to a much newer car.

I think most people on this thread would agree with that. This thread is mostly for snobbish people that actually want to invest time and money in equipment worthy of listening to overkill quality music, usually at thier house. Hypothetically, if I spent $10,000 on a car audio system, which I...

I'm not sure who your directing that post to. I was under the impression that 24/192 was top of the line. I think Amazon sells a blu-ray audio album with Beethoven's 9 symphanies, and that takes 2 discs. That's a lot of data, considering most blu-rays are done with at least double layer. So...

I don't think I would download hi-rez, even if I had decent unlimited broadband. (I live in the sticks). I'd be interested in physical disks. And perhaps someday I'll get a decent turntable. (Something under a $1000, but prefer the $500 to $750 range) and start collecting vinyl. For a long time...

Is this weird? There was another, somewhat recent thread that used the same strange boilerplate to run the specs of a potential home theater. I tried to find that other thread, but failed..

It depends on what your using it for. I repurposed a budget desktop as a music server. The specs on it are dismal, but for listening to music, it doesn't require much in the way of specs. It's a Lenovo 300S 11L. The cpu is 6.5 watts. I did upgrade it though. Upgrade: 8 GM ram (from 4GB stock)...

I watched that video before I posted my thread. I didn't agree with him, although he did make some good points, I disagreed that audiophile quality digital audio is dead.

If I start collecting High Fidelity Pure Audio (or similar), I'd mostly get classical and jazz.

A rather subjective thread. Tidel is now streaming 5.1 audio, but I'd be surprised if it was true dvd/blu-ray quality. I suppose the question for me, is: did high rez audio every really take off? To me, it'd a resounding "no". I haven't kept up with HD streaming audio, but last I checked, most...

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Seiously, the days are mostly gone where you need the origional visionary to make sure each film in a series is good or great. Some director/producers own the intellectual rights to the movie series they're renouned for. Of course George Lucas sold his rights to Disney. He wanted to retire...

I think the general rule of thumb is to consider 8k displays for screen at least 85" wide although I suppose 80" wide screen is kinda borderline. For 75" or less, 8k is overkill. 8k would definately be overkill for a 70" screen. There's a point of diminishing returns with 8k tv. It's a bit...

There's fine line between cheap and overpriced. With cables and wiring, I'd go with something inn the midrange. Gold plated what? Seriously, gold plated connectors are fine if the price bump is reasonable. I'd stay well away from premium or ultra premium cables and wiring that use precious...

There are times, like in this thread, I wish I was more of an expert. I can answer alot of questions, but this was a bit esoteric for me.

I figured out the problem. I went to the store and they do carry Anthem... turns out there is a competitor that has nearly the same name as the store I thought I was talking to, and so I looked up the wrong website when I was looking for a phone number to call.

Really good movie. Draws inspiration from 2001 A Space Oddyssy, channels a bit of inner dialogue of Appocalypse Now, anf no doubt drops a bit of hommage from other older scifi movies. The story is a slow burn, but never boring, and wholly origional. Personally, I think Brad Pitt's performance...

One nice thing about home theaters, is one can upgrade speakers later. So in a few years I'll upgrade the front speakers to something much nicer, then have my system bumped up to a 7.2.6. Then someday replace the 2 rear speakers to match the front speakers. At that point, I'd stop there. No...

I'd use a universal remote I guess. I mean, once a home theater is set up, there's not much to do.

What's your budget? I'm currently saving up to have a 7.2.4 home theater installed with an MRX 1140, and with used speaker (and already owned 5 speakers and a subwoofer from years ago), I'm looking around $7500 total, not including the value of the speakers from my old home theater set up.

I don't think the MRX 1140 supports front wide. There is really only 2 main types of setups for the MRX 1140: dts:x and dolby atmos. I think DTS is pretty much dead, like BETA or an 8 track cassette player. I think for front wide, you'd be looking at a system that that used multiple boxes: AV...

It's not the speakers that I was referring to, but the cost of the Anthem MRX 1140 plus the cost of installation. It was easy to get the speakers, price wise, since I'd picked up 5 of them about 10 years ago, so finding 6 more on ebay wasn't sticker shock. But saving up for the AV reciever and...

I watched an interesting video on a semi blind teste using 5 different speakers from different manufacturers, that were all priced differently. Semi blind meant the guy didn't hide the speakers, but the test subjects new very little about speakers. Anyway, he waa interested in which speakers...

Hmm. ☹️

/ sigh