After the firmware has updated you have to do a factory reset, which in my case completely reset everything so I had to learn to use I all over again! If you're meant to back up your settings to an SD card that isn't made clear in the instructions but, regardless, I survived. I haven't made any...

Sorry to ask what I'm sure is a problem that has been solved in the course of this thread, but: My A16 used to decode Atmos out of my Xbox Series S using the "bitstream" and "Dolby Atmos" settings on the console itself. Since updating my firmware (which apparently entailed re-calibrating my...

FWIW I can watch AppleTV in Atmos through my XBox Series S. I think that's the only service that currently supports Atmos in my setup ... but they have precious little content so it hardly matters!

To save me trying ... do you happen to know whether outputting from a multichannel SACD in PCM to that particular input would suddenly enable the A16 to play the multichannel layer of the SACD?

Good idea but that won't save you. The number of ways that the A16 can trip you up is myriad. For instance, everything seemed set up correctly and suddenly the HDMI from my PC wouldn't work. A couple of days later I realised that while I was using the bypass function I had accidentally turned...

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I've double checked tonight. With the Oppo set to output PCM for SACD and PCM over HDMI and a direct HDMI connection to the A16 (no receiver between the two) I only get two channels of information on SACD playback even though the Oppo displays 5.0...

Most of you will know these problems and most of them are due to fundamental misunderstandings on my part but here is a record of my frustrations with the A16 so far: Resolved. I couldn‘t any other input other than HDMI to work. The problem was that I was skipping the “Reload” step after...

My wife was reluctant to watch tv in headphones and I was worried about the fact that the optical tracker only supports one user but in fact the magnetic tracking has been rock solid and she's even managed over three hours of The Irishman in headphones. I think that the individual vlume controls...

Just the default BBC room. Do you recommend another?

Okay, that makes sense. The problem I was having was that SACDs just wouldn‘t play at all directly out of the Oppo, but instead I have routed it through my AV amplifier and now they do work, which solves the problem. Optical Input again just doesn‘t seem to work at all but I was only using it as...

Thanks, that helps. Am I right to conclude that the A16 doesn't handle DSD or play nice with SACDs? Also, it doesn't seem to recognise audio via the optical digital input.

I can confirm: backer number 214 took delivery today! I do, however, require urgent advice. [Edit: first problem solved!] I connected the HDMI output from the A16 to my Amp and tried to run a PRIR and SPR diagnostic routine, but got no output to the screen or sound. The source selection was...

Decided to check this thread again because I've heard nothing from Smyth about my own A16. Great that there's some sort of response but I really wish that they would communicate other than through a system of Chinese Whispers.

Well, any delay in the shipping progress can now be put down to the change in hardware announced on Kickstarter. It seems to be an upgrade so perhaps it's lucky (?) to be so late in the queue.

All I know is that the closer we get to my number, the slower the fulfilment process. I'm starting to think that the number of orders required to fulfill my pledge is governed by some sort of half-life clock.