av receiver

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...

Someone over on the home theatre sub is stuck between two full sets and I think it is a more interesting question than the usual which speaker sounds better thread. The two options are Paradigm 720v2 towers with the 520C centre and 220B surrounds, or KEF Q11 Meta towers with the Q6 Meta centre...

Everyone is talking about the Dirac situation on these, but the spec that made me sit up is 1440p passthrough and AMD FreeSync compatibility across all four models - the Cinema 50 Series 2, both Cinema 60s and the slimline 70s. Receivers have spent years treating PC gamers as somebody else's...

Marantz has pushed out the Cinema Series 2 range. Cinema 50, Cinema 60 and Cinema 70s, on sale August 15, spanning $1,500 to $3,000. The spec people will argue about first is channel count. The 50 is nine channels at 110W, the 60 is seven at 100W, the 70s is seven at 50W. Nine on the flagship in...

Somebody posted their improvised 5.2 in a rental and it's a tidier job than a lot of permanent installs I've seen. TCL 85QM851G, Denon X1700H, a miniDSP 2x4 HD, KEF Q350 doing left, centre and right with the rear ports plugged, Polk XT15 for surrounds, and a pair of RSL Speedwoofer 10e. The...

Pioneer has been fairly quiet in AV receivers for a while, and the VSA-LX805 is the swing at getting back to being a first-choice brand. It's an 11-channel flagship, which is the obvious way to do it: match the competition on channel count and tick every format box on the way past. Dolby Atmos...