Show us your gear!

[chucky3042]

The record for the most amount of "spaghetti" goes to Rustiandi........and it does not hum!!

 

[alansanchez86]

Well, since you wanted me to "Show us your gear!"...

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deets, what AVR and amp?

 

[timbre4]

This is system #2 in the back room for quad. I just added the Q8 recorder as another historical artifact. I’m either playing QUADIO Blu-ray Discs or quad FLAC files off of a 2TB hard drive. Also supporting cassette, DAT and laserdisc.[VHS HiFi is on hiatus]

 

[Petr Kropotkin]

deets, what AVR and amp?

Funny you ask as I was thinking I might pose the question to the Rhino Quadio guessers, "10/10 and a Koala stamp if you can identify all the components", but that might turn into pages of guessing. It's only set up like this to see if all my existing cables are long enough for the bespoke cabinet I'm making as I've just bought the AVR (it was on sale); hence why it's turned around.

But to answer your question, it's a Denon AVR-X6800H (for Atmos with 6 heights) and an Emotiva XPA-7 Gen 3 Amp. The others are an Oppo UDP-205, a Parasound Halo P7 Preamp., an Involve Surround Master v.3, and a QNAP TS-264 NAS.

If I've figured it all out correctly, I can keep my existing 7.2 setup independent of the AVR for Atmos by flicking the speaker switches on the back of the Emotiva amp: existing XLR connects for the 7 surrounds from the preamp, but RCA connects for the Atmos channels from the AVR pre-outs (so the AVR is only using 6 of its internal amps for the heights); hence 7.2.6.

Anyhow, that's the theory, but if I've got any of that wrong, please anyone let me know!!

 

[alansanchez86]

Funny you ask as I was thinking I might pose the question to the Rhino Quadio guessers, "10/10 and a Koala stamp if you can identify all the components", but that might turn into pages of guessing. It's only set up like this to see if all my existing cables are long enough for the bespoke cabinet I'm making as I've just bought the AVR (it was on sale); hence why it's turned around.

But to answer your question, it's a Denon AVR-X6800H (for Atmos with 6 heights) and an Emotiva XPA-7 Gen 3 Amp. The others are an Oppo UDP-205, a Parasound Halo P7 Preamp., an Involve Surround Master v.3, and a QNAP TS-264 NAS.

If I've figured it all out correctly, I can keep my existing 7.2 setup independent of the AVR for Atmos by flicking the speaker switches on the back of the Emotiva amp: existing XLR connects for the 7 surrounds from the preamp, but RCA connects for the Atmos channels from the AVR pre-outs (so the AVR is only using 6 of its internal amps for the heights); hence 7.2.6.

Anyhow, that's the theory, but if I've got any of that wrong, please anyone let me know!!

my money was on an Emotiva Amp! emotiva owners know their ****

 

[relaxing]

Anyhow, that's the theory, but if I've got any of that wrong, please anyone let me know!!

I think you’ll need power cables for at least some of that gear

 

[barfle]

my money was on an Emotiva Amp! emotiva owners know their ****

Just picked up a new Emotiva BasX 6x90W amp to go along with my three Stealth Pro studio monitors.

I was surprised, but I could tell the difference over my old Akai amp that I was using for my backs.

 

[ar surround]

Just picked up a new Emotiva BasX 6x90W amp to go along with my three Stealth Pro studio monitors.

I was surprised, but I could tell the difference over my old Akai amp that I was using for my backs.

Does the Emotiva have significantly more power than the old Akai? Often, a little bit more headroom (i.e. 3dB) is enough to get rid of that sense of compression one can get from an amp of lesser power.

 

[barfle]

Does the Emotiva have significantly more power than the old Akai? Often, a little bit more headroom (i.e. 3dB) is enough to get rid of that sense of compression one can get from an amp of lesser power.

The Akai is 75WPC, the Emotiva is 90. I wasn’t pushing it, so I would be surprised if that was it. The speakers are those old Realistic Mimimus 7, which are better than they have any right to be, but not spectacular.

I could barely hear some hiss out of them from the Akai. Dead quiet from the Emotiva.

Still waiting for my Marantz 7706 for atmos decoding… That will provide signal for the other four channels.