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Three weeks in and I can put my thoughts down fairly confidently. I still believe that the "biggest bang for buck" first upgrade from 5.1 would be 7.1 That said, now with the four height channels (corner of ceiling and wall) levels dialed in with SPL measurements and distances calculated via...

Okay I've been living with it for nearly two weeks and I'll say I'm thrilled with it. Ironically (or maybe fittingly, since we know Google/YouTube just has all of our browsing data) this showed up in my recommended videos today and made me remember to come back and add to this thread. This guy...

So I've been replaying the scene a couple of times and been muting/unmuting. I've noticed something which may simultaneously validate/invalidate my experience. Since I'm just randomly muting, I never mute the same passages twice. One thing I noticed on a subsequent run is that the thunder is...

So I by total happenstance ended up in a unique situation where I can assess the benefit (or not) of these. Since I have the rear heights powered separately by the DA-9 which comes with a remote that has a handy mute feature, I went directly to the Matrix scene I mentioned above. Now when Neo's...

Primes are installed in rear height, being driven by a surprisingly good SMSL DA-9 Class D amp that I got on sale at Amazon for around $220 during the Black Friday deals. To break in the new Primes, prior to install, I ran them on a tabletop, connected Apple Music from my phone via bluetooth to...

For this Cyber Monday, I figured I'd already invested heavily in a 5.1.2 Atmos signal chain (front heights + traditional 5.1 setup). I never added rear heights because back when I moved into this apartment it was a pain in the butt running rear wires under the carpet (I had this special tool to...