I think we discuss our questions constructively and tolerantly and probably better than our local-minded Gilles will do. Smyth's lousy planning and reporting give us full right to question even their very core work. And forum is a place to discuss and question and not to sit with the mouth shut.

Yes, I have read it and I haven't noticed much audiophile enjoyment reporting. I mostly noticed preoccupation with correcting something. Besides, what does it mean 'an audiophile'? A person who likes strong bass? Besides, who has recommended the Yarra 3DX, Dolby Digital based device, to us? Yes...

And why his job could be done so well? Maybe he 'copied' Smyth well because he was able to 'measure' their info capabilities well and maybe that was possible because their input was of a very low quality? If their info was of high quality, he certainly wouldn't be able to 'measure' and imitate...

@camillem: 1. Is the true internal processing level of the Realiser A16 'lossless' or 'lossy'? I mean, given the enormous processing requirements of the real time de-rotation of 16 channels? 2. When Realiser A16 'captures' high-end speakers, does it 'capture' them in their high-end totality, or...

I don't know either. Maybe PCM originating from DD is smaller in size than the lossless version? One thing was consistent all the time - carefully avoiding to explicitly say 'No MCH PCM input was planned. Yarra 3DX is a soundbar dedicated to gamers and TV viewers'. I had to turn myself into a...

Passed away or maybe discovered some concealed property or properties which qualified the device as unwanted ...? I can imagine, for example, that in case I received my Yarra 3DX and discovered it's multichannel capabilities were limited to lossy Dolby Digital (and some other gamers' format)...

@Dr AIX: Why didn't you tell this to your readers and followers before their payments? You knew they (we) assumed that functionality.

Well, Erik Garci already answered you - Yarra is not dead, moreover, it is pregnant and new baby, Yarra II, is expected to come to this world in a couple of ......well ... whatever. And the horse we are beating here - namely human hypocrisy - will unfortunately live forever, together with the...

@Dr AIX: ... And why didn't you mention your inclination or necessity to using lossy AC3 format with Yarra at the times when you were busy persuading your readers and Forum members to back Yarra? You must have known that your name had become a synonym for the multichannel PCM (even in high...

And why did you say "I played ... tracks from the “Love” DVD-Audio disc..." and not "I played ... tracks from the “Love” DVD-Audio disc previously downconverted to AC3 lossy format"?

Why lossy AC3 and not lossless PCM, your favourite and favourite of your readers and your Yarra backers?

My point was that even if the Yarra ships and even if it really is brilliant and innovative, the question remains - on which level? On the level of Dolby Digital? Thank you, goodbye! Will the A16 perfectly copy the speakers? Yes? But, when they play WHAT? Dolby Digital? Thank you, goodbye! But...

I wish you were right. Unfortunately, neither Mark, nor Duke and Yarra's engineers didn't confirm to me such a possibility when I once asked them about that.

It is nice to see Mark trying to help the backers, but I can not believe how he keeps manipulating with the truth. I have induced him (and Yarra's engineers) to admit that Yarra can accept only stereo, Dolby Digital and one games' format. And now he says he demonstrated Yarra by playing, among...

First, a little joke - no need for bottles, we are having a good long training in fooling the brain :beyersmile: Second, serious - I too don't hear distinct 6 speakers, but all together, as a whole. And according to the reviews at https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/reviews.php Atmos tracks can be...

I've even bought a 4k Blu ray player (Samsung 8500), although I don't have and don't intend to have a 4k TV! This is for the cases where a regular blu ray disc doesn't contain a 3D audio track and 4k blu ray disc does (for example, 'Cars 3'). So, my Samsung will downscale 4k video to 1080p for...

I think it was 3 seconds and not 3-point for the fast way ... (and 12 seconds for the long way) .

Thank you very much. I will then tell it to our colleague SergioPOE. You are talking about decoding Dolby 'containers' and I was talking about upmixing PCM that doesn't come from any Dolby 'container'. And yes, it was strange to me that Dolby has control and restrictions over that kind of PCM...

OK, but the accent here was on the fact that is new to me - that Dolby controls and restricts not only the way how the format called Dolby Atmos (whatever it contains) is upmixed, but also the way how PCM, originating from other sources, is upmixed into the channel/speakers layout called Dolby...

It was 2,5 months ago! I was very excited about that announcement because I thought Steven Smyth would talk about current problems and reasons for huge delay. Now I think there is probably nothing new and current in that interview. Probably smilar to the BBC presentation. Otherwise GIlles would...

No, it WAS initially included, but was omitted not long ago. Gilles' lessons were written/updated after he finished his visit to SR in Ireland (September 2018). He named them 'final specs'.

Strange ... It is 12 A4 pages, 112 KB, shouldn't be too big ...

They are all there, from page 42 to page 46. Some of them were posted by Gilles himself (STAR WARS) and some by others (for example, @chasseur73 posted no. 9 and no. 10 on the page 46). I have all 10, translated, in a doc file and I thought I attached it to my last post. I clicked 'Upload a...