Me too! (finally I got to say that)

You are closer to the truth than you think: IIRC, Stephen said in an interview (somewhere on YouTube) that he and and his brother wanted to develop a teleconferencing system where you could place people in a virtual room and get a sense of direction for the position from which they are speaking...

@Litlgi74 indeed points to the most critical aspect of such a review: You NEED a personal PRIR measurement to really experience the A16's groundbraking, breathtaking abilities. Unfortunately, doing such a measurement on your own (even if you have speakers) is, at the moment, a grueling task that...

Same here.

Same here.

My package got lost when it was already in Germany. Somewhere in this thread someone reported that his A16 got lost last year because of a detached shipping label. Just saying.

That makes three of us. Shipped July 9th, went missing, UPS investigation started two weeks ago, no news since then.

This is becoming scary. My unit is currently also lost during UPS shipment (a lost parcel investigation is running). I will notify James about a potential systematic problem with the shipping labels.

To use the center speaker as temporary height speaker for measurements, I used 2 high tripods: https://www.thomann.de/de/millenium_lichtstativ_lst310_bundle.htm The construction looks like that: By changing the sitting position relative to this construction, all 6 height speaker positions can...

Seems unlikely to me, never heard of any microphone calibration inside the Realiser. Do you have a source for this? In the A8 thread there was some discussion that the microphone pairs are matched by the Smyths so that the inevitable mic-to-mic variations in the frequency response curves are at...

Just listened to the "The Road to PS5"-Talk by Playstation 5 lead system architect Mark Cerny. The PS5 will have an audio section that will be able to render sound similar to the A16 (most probably even more powerful). Cerny elaborates on the HRTF and the procedure to measure it with in-ear...

So the whole poll makes not much sense. Not that it matters anyway...

Ups, I guess it might have. 80-120ms is really really bad. Unfortunately, delaying audio/video does nothing apart for watching movies. It is really the latency that has to come down. The 3ms were in the spec sheet, so we should at least put it in the wish list.

You seem to talk about latency, which so far was not discussed at all in this forum. It is specified to be at 32ms regardless of the input format. The Kickstarter document showed a low latency mode with only 3ms, something that would be very helpful for critical gaming, playing musical...

Happened to me as well: A16 failed to recognize the input signal on HDMI 1 (the only source I use), changing input sources back and forth did not help. I have not tried reboot and preset changes.