Sound is volume (literally) so what may be pleasant to me with my specific setup won’t be pleasant to another with the same setup in a different space; audio is the only scientific field where I personally feel that speaker reviews fail the most, because it’s subjective and hyper-dependent. Is it reproducible? Yes. Do you have the available currency to make that happen in your own home? 99% of the time, no.
The only solution is “try before you buy.” With used speakers it’s not that easy (nor new unless a local venue actually offers that service for free), but if they’re locally sourced, insist that the seller prove their wares the same as if you were buying anything secondhand. If it’s truly worth the money compared to typical market value, then they shouldn’t have any problem proving that they work on their own personal setup (which is an entirely different thing to take into consideration). Period.
Makes sense, I already bought the speakers. I’m just looking for a reciever that can power my speakers + work as my avr.
I want to make sure I buy a avr that can work with the 2 scenarios.
I won’t go broke spending $500-600, but if I’m spending over $900 and the process or quality is as janky as if I had got it cheaper. I would be more disappointed. I want to make sure I get this right
I agree with that, pretty much why I chose a Denon. Full preouts (plus the denon preouts are full line voltage and low distortion compared to some other brands) and being able to disable the internal amps are huge features if you plan on using external amplifiers, otherwise it really just comes down to room EQ and Audessey is really the what of the entry level systems, especially with the third party tools. Plus they optionally support Dirac if you’ve got money to burn.
The Martin Logan’s? I did admittedly miss that the first time around. See below in bold amidst my rambling (I sincerely apologize)…
Not remotely fun to work with. I gave up after buying a cheap as hell adjustable tripod even for more my measly little space. The only thing that I could find for troubleshooting was on random forums and piecing it all together to it MAYBE being that the microphone gain needed to be raised, but I don’t own a laptop (a friend brought theirs over, but that was a year and half ago and they’ve been swamped out of the ass) and I have a small window to be able to turn EVERYTHING noise making off just to find out if that’s the problem. The mic supplied by the Onkyo works, I’ve recorded myself talking on it. Dirac doesn’t.
I did, however, buy my Onkyo at a steep discount ($800 vs $1,200 when my model was available). Probably should have led with that as far as my first comment goes. I’m sorry.
I specifically wanted HDMI 2.1b 4K 120hz on as many ports as possible so that I had room to grow with the receiver, because you can always pair cheaper speakers with a higher end receiver, but not the other way around. Denon’s model at the time that actually offered 5.1.4 had a SINGLE HDMI 2.1b port that actually offered 4k 120hz, while the other ports were buggy because of a bad chip and it still cost more than MSRP of my Onkyo… I chose a shitty Room EQ program over something that I will be using possibly for the rest of my foreseeable future. If I get 10-20 years out of it, then that’s $80-40/year respectively. If it breaks before that time frame, then it’s an immediate “learn how to fix it now,” which will technically be fun.
