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Out of curiosity What will the Anthem Pre-amp add? Will it replace one of your existing devices, or be in addition to?
Out of curiosity What will the Anthem Pre-amp add? Will it replace one of your existing devices, or be in addition to?
Ah, okay, that makes more sense. It's a complicated set-up.Hi.
The Anthem will replace the RME DAC and also provide me with room correction via HT Bypass with the loss of DIRAC with the Arcam out of the picture.
It will also be an input selector for my music sources.
Ah, okay, that makes more sense. It's a complicated set-up.
Will room correction be applied on an HT bypass input? Would that not be a direct input straight to the power amp and miss out the pre-amp and bypass any processing?
Will you still need an AVR, maybe just as an HDMI DAC?
If you have got your head around all of this, then just ignore me, I may be adding more confusion than helping
Yep! Good luck!Make sense?
Yeah, good choice.....Yep! Good luck!
It depends. FFMPEG which plex uses discards the .1 when it’s output is set to two channel. Other sources (PS4, jriver) retain it when downsampling to two channel, as they should.
So it depends on what’s doing the processing, but a Dolby compliant processor should merge the .1 with the L/R channels. I’ll post a link from someone on AVS that explained that to me.
as far as I know, the standard equation dolby recommends for stereo downmix drops the LFE channel. If you rely on a bluray player or a TV to do the job you will lose the LFE channel every time. If you use a receiver or processor to do your downmix where it can configure small or large speakers then it can choose to mix LFE in with the mains but that requires a processor. I'm not aware of any source device which does this.
I tested this when I had a Denon receiver and I switched between my Blu-ray and my amp doing the downmix while watching terminator 2 and I was definitely losing bass slam.
I'm currently using a lyngdorf for a 2.1 system and I really like the room correction and I don't really miss the centre or surrounds, but I do miss the slam of the LFE.
I'm planning on trying to "pre-process" the signal with an old Meridian 568 by telling it that I only have a 2 channel system with digital speakers and I'll see if it works.. but it's not ideal. I'd really like the lyngdorf to have DD/DTS decoders tbh! and HDMI-CEC that works with my LG tv...
I like the idea of the Marantz NR line, but I'd prefer something similar but with better RC...
Thanks!You're very knowledgeable mate.
AFAIK, in HT bypass mode the STR will not do any bass management, room correction or anything else, with the sole exception of permitting you to slightly adjust the gain to match the AVR's other channels. HT bypass mode is about bypassing as much as possible, supporting functionality only if is is absolutely necessary to make it work at all. Anything which is not crucial is assumed to be done by the upstream AV source, which therefore needs to be reasonably competent.
The problem is finding something to both switch my hdmi sources whilst simultaneously decoding, downmixing and passing through to to STR to do it's magic. Is there any device out there that can replace the SR250?.
The MiniDSP is a DSP product, the Anthem STR is an advanced preamplifier. You started this thread because you were unhappy with your Arcam, didn't like the Lyngdorf, but wanted AV functions in a stereo setup.
I've mentioned this before, but what about using your Oppo UDP-203 between the TV and an Anthem STR? The TV will do HDMI switching etc, the Oppo will decode, delay and convert, and the Anthem STR will do everything already discussed.
I had assumed that you were keeping the Oppo as your primary player for CD, SACD, DVD, BD & UHD physical media.
My working model was that your TV supports three HDMI inputs (one ARC), whilst your signature lists 3 AV devices (Oppo, PS4, Nvidia Shield). The Oppo does ARC, so you could use it to extract the audio signal from the TV to route to the stereo through the Oppo's stereo RCAs. (I do appreciate that you have the 203, not the 205 and hence don't have the dedicated stereo RCA and balanced outputs, but you do have 7.1 analogue outputs that can be configured for stereo). The TV will handle the other two sources, but you do need to verify that your older TV will route the HDMI audio from the non-ARC inputs back over ARC - some TV's don't. This can be checked by using your Arcam, or probably you've already done this.
The NR1200 option
don't forget that've got a few NR's and I think the top one is the NR1710, though I know the others are multi-channel. I think it's a shame they don't make that component as a much higher end processor and with a better RC system. I really like the size and shape...
I'd replace the 6 year old Full HD TV with a UHD TV having all the necessary AV functionalilty to act as the complete centrepiece and hub of the AV setup, then use it to feed a purely stereo system. Not all TVs have the necessary components, so you do need to set up a checklist and be prepared to pay for it.I do plan to upgrade the TV at some point too but that's not important right now.
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what would YOU do in my situation Mark?
I'd replace the 6 year old Full HD TV with a UHD TV having all the necessary AV functionalilty to act as the complete centrepiece and hub of the AV setup, then use it to feed a purely stereo system. Not all TVs have the necessary components, so you do need to set up a checklist and be prepared to pay for it.
Not quite. Im my suggestion you do not need any AV functionality in the stereo setup, as you feed it an analogue stereo signal. That's why I said that the TV needs to have "all the necessary AV functionalilty to act as the complete centrepiece and hub of the AV setup".Hmm. Interesting idea! One I didn't consider really.
So, your idea is a TV with E-ARC which handles all the latest Dolby and DTS formats to an all in one stereo integrated that also has an E-ARC input like the upcoming NAD M33.
The new NAD has absolutely everything I could need including the Purifi PSU's aswel as having DIRAC and is also a ROON endpoint/core.
It's not out until next month so hasn't been subjectivity reviewed yet.
Is this what you meant?
Not quite. Im my suggestion you do not need any AV functionality in the stereo setup, as you feed it an analogue stereo signal. That's why I said that the TV needs to have "all the necessary AV functionalilty to act as the complete centrepiece and hub of the AV setup".
The segregation of duties permits that to choose your stereo equipment to do what you want your stereo to do, instead of restricting yourself to those few devices with HDMI built in. It has an impact on your choice of TV though: many budget level TVs assume that either you're running a solitary TV or you're running it in conjunction with an external AVR for sound.
(The new NAD M33 is nice).
Not quite. Im my suggestion you do not need any AV functionality in the stereo setup, as you feed it an analogue stereo signal.
I do similar with an LG OLED55B6 but instead of feeding my amp the analogue stereo signal, I feed it an optical signal and then use the nice dac in my hifi amp.
of course, this assumes that all modern dac's aren't transparent etc. I know that using the analogue out is good too, but using the amp dac makes me feel better