He has been so successful because he enjoys the chase/journey more than the destination. People like Matt are the innovators because great is never good enough enough. Michael is the same way. One of Michael's greatest talents is being comfortable with being uncomfortable. Truly a pleasure to follow Michael and his life journey. It has been an incredible ride.
I don't know what you're using for WiFi so this may vary somewhat but on your WiFi settings play around with different channel options to see if it improves it. Additionally if it runs on multiple bands you can usually split them creating discrete connections for each. For example, 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Then try connecting devices specifically to 1 such as the 5GHz channel as the bass transceivers are likely running at 2.4GHz.
I'm a lot like Matt, and I have a basement full of speakers, amps and receivers to prove it. You may already know this, but those plugs on the speaker terminals are so an electrical plug is not plugged into them. I read somewhere that the UK plug has the same distance between the posts. I have never tested that, but that was what I had read.
He spoke about CENTER Channel audio, time for you guys to try A1 EVO before you buy MultiQ X. It will bring those 4 subs together and better center channel audio.
Here we go again! Woohoo!!! Lol... I watch Adam LZ's channel too! Thats cool that Matt's his friend! Matt's GT3 is GORGEOUS!!! Arguably THE BEST street car on the planet! I love the Cinema 30....if I had one I'd take the glass door off my media cabinet so the view of it wasn't obstructed!! I don't ont know if it would work OR if Matt would want too but I've seen some speaker Spike/feet designs like those that are reversible. Flat part goes on the under side and the spikes hold them in from the top.
A 9.5" woofer has 1/4 the area of an 18" woofer. The dual 9.5" configuration is designed to eliminate cabinet resonance. It's a push-pull arrangement. Having 4 of these should still give you peaks exceeding 115dB plus all the advantages of multiples for evening our bass response. I have a 12x13 room which will have 4 Starke SW15 on a 2x4 miniDSP. Less than 2500 all in for that. In room 12 Hz at 88 dB.
Interesting. I can definitely change my channel levels after running Dirac Live with Bass Control on my HTP-1. Must be a NAD limitation. My HTP-1 even has a quick center channel dialog adjustment button right on the remote, which I believe allows for a quick +3dB to -3dB adjustment if memory serves.
Audyssey was disabled. It’s best to have that disabled at the beginning, make your physical changes to your speaker, layout and position, then run your calibration, then if you want to make changes, yes of course take a photo so that you can always change them back if you make changes that are worse than what they were before
He's got a Nice setup I have the svs pinnacles with pb 2000 subwoofer, a Marantz cinema 70s and a emotiva xpa 3 channel external amplifier Good enough for me. I hope he enjoys his speakers
I enjoy most approaches. There are always tidbits or things that didn't work and other killer bits. Now, not everybody has the funds to do what you guys do but I am not jealous or bothered by it. I have a small room and I found my PB2000Pro was a bit boomy. I decided to add a pair of Starke SW15. Way better for the room. Still in the process of installing a MiniDSP because my Marantz 6014 has a dead Sub 2 output. Always a pivot to be made but the tight bass was worth the moderate cost
Thank you kindly. I’m enjoying it as well. In my living room set up. It reminds me a lot of the SR8015 that I loved before I moved to separates in my Theater Room.
It definitely is much easier to use. For example, today I was providing some demos in the theater room with the Anthem AVM 70. All I wanted to do was to have music in two channel with subwoofers. It took us probably 20 minutes to figure that out because we have to change the virtual input and we couldn’t get the speaker profile for 2ch to work
Wow 2 of my favorite guys!!! I'm a detailer who enjoys obsessed garage! I think a lot of car guys are also audio fanatics. It's a certain group of people 😅
And most bigger subs have more xmax for example a Dayton Ultimax ii 8“ has 18mm of one way xmax while the 18“ version has 28mm so you would need about 9,2 8“ subs to equal one 18“
Dyn EQ is great for a living room setup IMO. Like others have mentioned, look into the OCA A1 EVO script. It takes Audyessy calibration to another level in conjunction with REW.
@artfartzy I've never tried my 5.2 setup without the center channel. People with much more experience than me recommend using a good center channel so that's what I do. But happy that you get good results. Room acoustics, speaker placement, and decent speakers are likely more important factors to quality sound than a center channel. And perhaps a center channel is more important for large screens/rooms, ones with wider L&R speaker placement.
@@tylerpanteleeff8581 Exactly it is meant for larger screening rooms and cinemas or places where everyone can't sit in the center sweetspot. My amplifier has something build in called virtual center, it is better than the traditional phantom mode you get when you set your decoder setup as a 4.1 without a center. My decoder is in my oppo bluray player, then in the setup I have it setup as if I had a center, so from the center output there is a cable to my amplifier. Once it reached my amplifier the center audio is send out to the L/R front speakers but in a better way than the decoder would have done if I had turned off the center in the speaker configuration. To me it sound more natural and the vocies are coming from right where my TV is without sounding like it's coming from a box like it often does with a center placed under the TV. You just have to make sure the front speakers are placed with same distance between them as there is to the listening position. So that the vocals from the singer is right in the middle between the speakers when you listen to music. And then of course you have to sit in the middle sweetspot or as close to. I feel it sounds more natural as if they were standing in my room speaking. Of course you need an amplifier that has this virtual center function for it to sound the best. But even with just phantom mode you might find that it sound better than with a center, but this is something you can test. Of course if you are a group of people watching then you might need the center, what I have is more for 1-2 persons watching, im mostly watching alone so it's not a problem.
@@artfartzy No center only works well for a single center seating position as soon as you move left or right the phantom center image falls apart . A dedicated channel is a a lot better if you have more that one seating position in the room.
@@micb3rd Yes it works best if you sit in the middle, but it also depends how well your front speakers are setup and how good they are at spreading the sound, in my setup it works fine with 2 people watching, the vocals still sounds like they come from where the TV is. And it sounds more natural than with a center placed under the TV. So for people watching alone it's worth trying without a center.
I'm surprised that in such a nice setup using very nice equipment that he would use wireless transmitters for the Subwoofers. Not only can they interfere with other wireless signals, but they also add latency, which could cause audio and video synchronization issues as well as phase and problems with integrating with the mains.
The difficulty with hardwood floor is, how do you get the cable to the subwoofers? At some point you have to cross the path and people are going to be walking on it even if you were to place a rug over it that’s not good for the signal at all. Matt shared in a previous video this room will mostly be used to watch sports. He will have a dedicated Theater Room upstairs. That will be a much higher end system for movie watching.
I use the rel s812 subwoofer with wireless Rel transmitter. It’s delay is 18 ms. This equals 530 cm adding to the subwoofer distance from listening position. But actually Dirac Bass Control will fix everything: delay and phase. It works perfectly.
@Fransost7367 With the room correction software adding delays to the audio to account for the subwoofers, does the AV reciever/processor also adjust the synchronization of the video? I'm super sensitive to that, especially when tactile transducers like buttkickers seem to react slower than what's happening on screen.
Here's a thought! (That's dangerous) Maybe someone's had it. There's a powerpoint under the couch, plug a wifi extender into it. Being right next to the rear subs, it might stop the wifi problems. Then again, isn't the receiver sending the signal to the subs? Plug it into the receiver powerpoint. Strange!
That's interesting what Matt's experiencing with WiFi. I have the tri band as well and don't have any issues. But I put as many devices as possible on my 6 ghz network band and have my AVR and Apple TV connected via ethernet. Maybe he should try something like that if he hasnt already to limit any wireless interference
I really am glad you enjoyed the new format. Trying something different for a change in addition to my normal content. Just a couple of dudes hanging out, doing what we do, except we decide to turn on the camera while we do it.
Love,Love,Love these videos. I'm definitely living vicariously through Matt's journeys. I'll never be rich or even well to do but I can experience a taste of the Good life by watching Matt's videos. I hate how these companies are nickel and diming their softwares. I have the AVM70 and so far their ARC software is completely free. I have read that maybe in the future we may have to pay for a higher tier software!🤦🏿♂️ Car manufacturers are also following the same "pay to use" plan. What can you do?🤷🏿♂️ The Old Man!👨🏾🦲 Julius!🙋🏿♂️
To fix the problem with the SVS transmitter and receiver, you need to figure out what channels it transmits on, then go back to his Wi-Fi router and change the channel as far from the SVS transmitter as you can
Change the access points / wireless to a different channel. Not the svs stuff. if you change it from it's default, it will probably be much better for the internet.
Matt made a lot of good choices. I love Marantz and that Cinema 30 looks like a great choice. I also like the black speakers, never was a fan of while. Super clean looking front end. 👍 FYI the older Marantz AVR's gave you a lot of control over the center channel. Since I'm a big fan of quality center speakers I found I could really dial it in to my personal preferences using the Marantz.
@@voiceofreason9238 buy a JBL SDR38. I did. Best center channel performance ever. Owned Marantz sr8015 before (And Nad t778) Bit of a joke compared to the jbl synthesis line. Okay not really a joke but the jbl delivers so much more of a real cinema experience. My center speaker is the Revel c426be
Yes and you also need to consider that most small subwoofers have less xmax than there bigger counterparts for example a Dayton Ultimax ii 8“ has 18mm of one way xmax while the 18“ version has 28mm and so you would need about 9,2 8“ subwoofers to have the same displacement as one 18“
Wouldn’t it make sense to tinker with the MultEQ app or MultEQ pro software? And do an apples to apples comparison with Dirac? I felt like it allowed me to tweak the sound signature immensely to suit my preference.
@@Youthmanyeah that’s maybe too much… then again, Matt does like to experiment with these types of things. Based on my experience I would definitely recommend the 20$ iPhone app for some basic tweaking experience as you can kinda tweak the sound signature (adjust curves and so on). I say this because I find Audissey to be a bit thin sounding out of the box
@@bellini1992 Audyssey has a well renounded reputation of killing the bass. For some reason it calibrates the bass to 75db. After running Audyssey you simply up the bass 3-6db. Maybe even more, and you´re good to go.
Hey Matt, great that you love the room, all that matters. Listening to you and Michael talk, i do think the biggest improvement for your room would be to remove the excessive room reverberance. Get the room right and you will be in hog heaven.😃
good day you showed us how to setup kalidascape in the last video. does kalidascape work world wide? iam planning to make a home theater in zimbabwe when i find a place to build my house. also is there a 4k disk vault from kalidascape.
Considering the arcam AVR 21 has been released for quite a while, one can purchase the Arcam avr20 for less than £2,000. The high-performance unit has a huge toroidal transformer, a toroid amplifier, a similar ESS SABRE sabre DAC as to the cinema 30 and as far as sound quality goes, it sounds just as good or, if not better than cinema 30 oh, and BTW, it also comes with Dirac (full bandwidth) at no extra charge. Providing one is not a gamer and is running less than 7 channels IMO it's a no-brainer
Each to his own but i dont get it, i like the journey but boy fo i like watching and enjoying my setup. Then again i see people upgrade every two seconds.
Someone shared in the comment section the reason they do that is because in some countries, they have a power cable that is the same shape so they didn’t want people sticking power into the speaker and destroying it
@Youthman, love the video! I'm looking for a replacement AVR and can't decide between the Marantz Cinema 30 or the Denon AVC-A1H, or maybe an Anthem? So many choices, difficult to know what's best!
Marantz and Denon are rock solid. My Anthem AVM70 is fantastic, but the app does crash a LOT and I occasionally have to reboot it to sync HDMI. It definitely has a ton of flexibility for calibration if you like to do that. If you want easy to setup and calibrate, Denon or Marantz is the way to go.
@@Youthman Awesome, thanks for getting back to me! I think the Marantz looks nicer, but the Denon has more power. So difficult to make these decisions!
Keep in mind you will never hear the difference between 140 watt amplifier and a 150 watt. The reason is it takes twice the power to gain 3 dB in volume. So you would need to have an amplifier that is 280 W to hear 3dB difference between the two
I’m not sure what part of the video you’re referring to. The unit has pre-out which allow you to add an external amplifier. I may have said preamp by mistake.
The.dedicated home theater upstairs will be acoustically treated. As he shared in the video, he mostly will use it while multitasking, mostly watching sports.
BDI FURNITURE, USA based company. I don’t think you can buy it in België of Nederland. I tried but did not succeed. I designed a similar cabinet myself and had it built by Reference Sounds in Almere
Matt believes in burn in. Not hundreds of hours, but, some level of burn in. I personally believe burn in is a few minutes at most. You’re not going to hear a difference if you run a speaker or subwoofer for 10 hours or 20 hours or 200 hours.
Hi Matt the ubiquiti u7 pro max has a dedicated WiFi chip for checking channel congestion and interference it has 2.4ghz 5ghz and 6ghz I would recommend this access point or the ubiquiti u6 enterprise access points are amazing the 7 pro max is new so still waiting for some features to be released with software updates some people have had issues with iot devices connecting with the u7 pro max but still worth trying I have experienced a similar issue years ago with an android box killing my internet connection turns out it was the cheap Chinese power adapter as soon as I plugged in the power adapter even when it was not connected with WiFi or anything it would drop my internet speed down to nothing unplugged the power adapter the internet connection would go back to normal so I purchased same voltage power adapter from a different manufacturer and it fixed the issue took me ages to figure out it was the power supply hope this helps just thought I would share. love the cinema 30 I am definitely going to get one to replace my Denon can’t wait to see videos when you get your ubiquiti equipment great stuff I have used them for many years
Incorrect. I got excited just yesterday when I demoed my JTR system for my friends. They had never experienced Dolby Atmos in a home. It was incredible.
@@Youthman i noticed something the other day i went to an electronics store and i couldn't get excited about anything cause im on a different level these days
@@Youthman Electrical made it to the sofa, use the same conduit for the subs, might have to use optical cables though…. Easier to hard wire the AppleTV
@@Youthman I like the way Dirac lets me set some things manually where I want the sound and Audessey seems to do it for you . Dirac also fits me like a glove its interface seems to be more natural to me if I’m saying right
@@Youthman never heard of it . I tried a unit with what I believe was just Audessey a year and a half ago I think a Dennon , but when the Onkyo Rz 70 came out I bought that . Loved the 70 so much in my family room with my Focal surround and REL subs I bought a RZ 50 for my bedroom . But no never heard of that expanded name on Audessey
