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Slim receivers always get the same objection from this forum, so let me get it out of the way: yes, 50 watts per channel into 8 ohms is modest. The AreaDVD test of the Cinema 70s Series 2 is fairly clear about where that leaves it. Smaller and mid-size living rooms are fine, very large rooms...

I spent the better part of a year convinced my receiver was underpowered before working out that I had done it to myself. Speakers set to Large is the big one. If your mains are running full range, the amp is handing deep bass to a pair of bookshelves that physically cannot reproduce it...

Nine times out of ten when somebody here says their receiver has run out of steam, there is nothing wrong with the receiver. Something in the setup menu is quietly handing the amp a job it was never meant to do, and swapping in more watts just buys a bigger version of the same problem. The one...

Every few months someone posts that their receiver runs out of steam during a big scene and the thread immediately fills with amplifier recommendations. Nine times out of ten the amp is fine and the setup is throwing power away, and the single biggest culprit is the speaker size menu. If your...

I had Dynamic EQ switched off for about four years for exactly the reason in this post, and it was the wrong call. The instinct is understandable if your background is on the picture side: anything with dynamic in the name sounds like it's inventing information the director didn't put there, so...

Go and put your hand on the lid of your amp right now if it sits behind a closed cabinet door. Someone posted a short thank you on r/hometheater this week for a recommendation they had picked up in another thread, the gist being that a cooling fan cost a bit more than they wanted to spend and...

Twenty years ago the soundbar pitch was one box, no cables, no receiver. Yamaha showed the YSP-1 at Bristol in 2005 running the Ronin car chase and people in that room were genuinely looking around for hidden speakers. Someone raised that memory on AVForums this week and I cannot argue with...

Two different disc players refusing to send Atmos into the same Anthem, while a Fire Stick on that identical input locks it straight away - that combination narrows things down more than it looks like it does. The setup in question: a Magnetar UDP800 bought new alongside an Anthem 540, fine for...

Saw another post from someone who finally bought an AC Infinity setup for their rack, called it pricey but cheaper than frying a receiver, and I recognised myself from about two years ago. My AVR lives in a cabinet with a door, because that is the furniture we own and nobody was going to let me...

Marantz has slotted an AV 30 in below the AV 10 and AV 20, and the pitch is the familiar one: most of the flagship processing at a price you can actually reach. The spec sheet backs up the first half of that. It processes 11.4 channels, decodes Atmos, DTS:X, Auro-3D and IMAX Enhanced, runs...

Good question raised on Home Theater Forum: how do you actually know whether a 2.0 track on a disc is straight stereo or Dolby Surround encoded, with surround information matrixed into those two channels waiting to be pulled back out. Disc covers list channel counts, not encoding, and the online...

Someone posted this on the home theater sub and it explains an issue a few people here have complained about. On Apple TV, under Settings, Video and Audio, Audio Format, there's a Continuous Audio Connection option. Leave it on and the box holds an open 5.1 LPCM pipeline to the receiver at all...

Someone was planning to strap two USB fans to the sides of a Denon S770H and run them off the receiver's own USB port to pull the hot air out. There is plenty of space either side of the unit and about an inch to an inch and a half above it. I have been down this road and it does not do what you...

Someone on r/hometheater posted a diagram of two USB fans sat beside a Denon S770H, plugged into the receiver's own USB port, meant to pull hot air out sideways. There is apparently plenty of room either side but only an inch to an inch and a half above the unit. I have been in exactly that spot...

There is a piece at ecoustics arguing the television is absorbing work that used to belong to the receiver, and I think it is right about who it actually affects. Nobody running an Anthem with seven passive speakers and four ceiling channels is unplugging anything this year. The person being...

Someone has a Denon S770H in a cabinet with plenty of room either side but only about an inch to an inch and a half of clearance above, and wants to stick two USB fans on the sides, powered from the receiver's own USB port, to pull the hot air out. Sketched it with arrows and everything. The...

Someone posted a 2.1 setup asking what to change next. B&W CM7 fronts, an Audio Pro sub, a 65 inch Samsung from 2019, an Xbox One X and a PS3 feeding it. The receiver is a Yamaha RX-V420. The speakers are not the problem. CM7s are a proper pair of towers and they will still be in that room in...

Someone bought a house that came with a dedicated theater already built in the basement. Dated, but good bones, and he is not looking to spend heavily, just make it usable and reasonably future proof while he replaces pieces. What is in the rack now: a Marantz SR8002 with what sounds like a...

Someone ran the same movie through an Apple TV and then off the 4K disc, sound level matched the two with REW and a UMIK-1, and measured the result on the RTA. Average SPL curves first, peak measurements second. The gap came out at roughly 0.9dB. What caught my eye more than the number was what...

Klipsch is giving the Reference Premiere III range its full debut at Audio Advice Live in Raleigh this weekend, after showing it early at CES back in January. The main home theatre demo is a 7.4.4 built from four RP-8203F floorstanders, four RP-1600CSW subwoofers and four in-ceiling height...