Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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All I can say is movies, even non Atmos encoded, sound unbelievably better than my previous setup. Also, I don't think the Dolby ATMOS movie list is accurate. I've watched a few blurays lately that show ATMOS on the display. The experience is blowing me away.
M80s VP180 4xM22ow 4xM3ic EP600 2xEP350 AnthemAVM60 Outlaw7700 EmoA500 Epson5040UB FluanceRT85
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Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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Yeah, you came over to the "next level" side of audio processing. It is a big leap in cost, but the Anthem line-up is pretty dang amazing.
Also, upmixing into an Atmos configuration is pretty darn cool for non-native mixes too.
Farewell - June 4, 2020
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Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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What model # avrs did you guys come from before the Anthem change?
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Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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Ok OK You two Your suppose to stop encouraging. I think though at the least I will be running the wiring. You Know just incase
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Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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Yeah, Atmos was initeresting to learn about but was clearly off my plate due to cost and installation. Now you have me thinking about re-looking at my ceiling construction as a just in case...the Anthem was on my future hit list anyway. I have to stop spending my time money here! You guys are a bad influence. Hopefully the M5HP's coming soon will cure me for a while.
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Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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What model # avrs did you guys come from before the Anthem change? I went from an Onkyo TX-NR709 that I owned, temporarily to an Onkyo TN-NR646 just to get a taste for Atmos in my room, and then made the big jump to the MRX-1120. The TX-NR709 was no slouch on specs, which is why I bought it originally for powering my 7.1 system at the time of purchase. Solid bang-for-the-buck back then. I looked at Yamaha, Denon/Marantz, and even Onkyo's weak offering for getting me to 7.2.4 before landing on the Anthem. Again, tough "cost pill" to swallow, but oh so good sounding.
Farewell - June 4, 2020
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Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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I've been trying to get away from buying the great big receivers and going with power amps and the cheapest receiver that has pre-outs and gives me the processing I need. Killer is power amps aren't exactly cheap either but once you have them...one would hope they last. A receiver will never do what a proper power amp will do either.
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Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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Has anyone compared the on wall m22 to on wall m3? for surround duty? I have M22's on my living room setup, with m2's and quite frankly I can't stand the m22's. They are just too flat, no bass, almost harsh I bought them from the refurb store and should have sent them back but were an xmas gift so I kept them. They are v3's but with the older style tweeter. The M2 on walls I have, and vp150 are v4 and I have no complaints about them. Hoping V4M3's are better than the M22's I have, more bass, better tweeter etc.
But I want to trade my QS8's in another room for on walls and part of me is thinking going with on walls m3's which I have never heard or m22's v4's and seeing if they are better than my v3's which if they are I'd swap the ones I don't like out and go all v4 in the living room eventually. I'm needing 4 in my theater and trying to keep them all the same obviously, so all m22 or all m3....I don't know what I'm saying....just thinking...
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Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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my 2 previous AVRs were a Denon 3808ci and Denon 2805 before that...
M80s VP180 4xM22ow 4xM3ic EP600 2xEP350 AnthemAVM60 Outlaw7700 EmoA500 Epson5040UB FluanceRT85
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Re: Advice for surround speakers - QS4, QS8 or on-wall
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I never went to Anthem, but there was a similar experience when I changed AVRs. There seems to be a correlation between upgrades to simpler platforms and user satisfaction. I dont know if its as much about the hardware anymore as it is about the software behind the scenes in modern dsp centric products. It would be interesting to get together as a group and take an out of the box product and tweak the settings to attain better performance. The simpler, less featured products may be inherently "better" because they dont trip over themselves with buggy yet functional code (from multiple vendors) or the end user implementation of their complicated product. Anyway, its great to hear about your success with the upgrade.
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