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  1. Well, as you know, that’s what I do and the results are quite wonderful. Digital Vinyl! JCR
  2. Chris, you NEED a turntable. And then you can digitize the output with your convolution filters. It still will be the computer audiophile. :) Your article reminds me that I NEED to terminate my Spotify subscription, as I never use Spotify. JCR
  3. Good article, Chris. Worthy to read the review of this recording as well over at TrackingAngle. https://trackingangle.com/music/an-epochal-performance-properly-heard-for-the-first-time Might be the first quad digital recording ever highlighted on Fremer’s analog audio site. :) JCR
  4. That’s it! Your life is now complete, Chris!! JCR
  5. Chris, two questions: 1. Does the K50 have the horsepower to handle Atmos/MCH, particularly with convolution (I’d ask as well about DSD and upscaling, but I know we’ve not got you on the HQPlayer bandwagon yet). 2. You like the sound a lot. But how does the sound compare to your CAPS Twenty music server? JCR
  6. Audyssey is ok, particularly if your Denon will allow use of the professional measurement kit, as my Marantz AV-8802A can do. But, I agree with @The Computer Audiophile: Dirac is said to do substantially better, certainly than the standard Multeq XT32 Audyssey that your Denon likely has built in. And I’ve moved to Audiolense XO, which in my personal experience is way better than Audyssey. You might consider that as an investment over the Dirac license. JCR
  7. Try the split and join MKV files dialog in Music Media Helper. JCR
  8. Chris, great article. I too am very much into DSP and Audiolense for my 5.1.2 system. I cannot overstress for readers the need for really good microphone measurements to achieve really good results with AL. My experience is that USB mics, like the popular and inexpensive UMIK-1 and UMIK-2 microphones, typically won’t cut it. A measurement condenser mic such as your Earthworks or an iSEMcon mic, both of which require use of a mic preamp and phantom power to operate, is going to produce better, consistent DSP results. JCR
  9. Not sure what you mean. Can you provide an example for us of what you are trying to accomplish with the DRP? JCR
  10. Do check out Bohemian Rhapsody on that Night At The Opera album. In 5.1 MCH, it’s crazy cool. As to Quadio recordings, if you are a Roon user, you likely will need to create a silent 5th (ie, center) channel. My experience with the Chicago Quadio recordings from a few years ago is that Roon would not properly play out all four channel in the right speakers without doing so. Same MMH software as Chris used is what works for this, as well. And, by the way, my experience — at least using HQPlayer for convolution and upscaling and Roon for control — is that changing the channel count doesn’t require creating blank channels (but for the issue I describe above). My filters are 8 channel but work fine with 2, 4, 6 and 8 channel material. JCR
  11. The title of this article is surely clickbait and could arouse some pretty hard feelings on all side of the Atmos question. I thought the article would totally bash Atmos as Stereophile recently did. Not, thank you. I have a 5.1.2 Atmos array at home, which is essentially the minimum spacial audio requirement. Yes, there is limited lossless Atmos content, but it sounds great to me. Even some of the lossy Apple-streamed Atmos albums are acceptable to my ear because of the spacial effect being so different. I had been into MCH 5.1 for many years, so to get into the Atmos gig only required me to purchase two in-ceiling front height speakers and an additional amp to run them, along with the aforementioned $400 Dolby Reference Player for decoding. So yes, an additional investment, but certainly modest as compared to my investment up to that point in my main system, which uses all Revel speakers and Bel Canto amplification. I have a second 5.1 MCH setup in a den which uses KEF LS50s for mains and center and an Andrew Jones-designed Pioneer bookshelf speaker for surrounds. I’ve got a pair of inexpensive Klipsch ceiling bounce Atmos speakers (I tried those before buying the additional Revel in ceiling speakers for my main system). I plan to place the Klipsch speakers on top of the LS50 mains for the front height requirement. I already have an amp that can take on the extra channels in the den, so the add on for Atmos to that system costs me nothing additional but my time to put it together. My point is that Atmos is like 2-channel, in that you can spend outrageous sums — as Chris has done with his Wilson 7.1.4 system (which does sound great and, @joelha, you really should trek to Minneapolis to hear) — or you can spend modest amounts to get into it. If you already have a 5.1 MCH setup, it’s a small leap from there to spacial Atmos. I’ll have to check out the 2-channel Atmos mixes — I haven’t tried that yet! Thanks. JCR
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