Okay, thanks for taking the time to answer my question, i am out of the loop. I did hear about the chip factory fire which was very unfortunate. Under those circumstances i can understand that they cant pay out of their own pockets for this.

Thanks for that enlightning remark, much appreciated.

Just received email that we can now purchase a software upgrade so our A16 units can decode DTS-X, while it is nice to see that this functionality is now supported, wasnt the A16 advertised as DTS-x decoding capable, why would we now pay $199 for that? Or am i missing something?

I really like my A8, it always served me well, but i am starting to feel uncomfortable with the A16. Why does it all have to be so complicated, it kills the fun for me tbh. I will just keep it packed up in the box and check back in 1 year if things have improved.

Mike SMITH or Mike SMYTH? :P

are we stalking them now? :D

Shouldnt they call it A24 now hehe

Funny how our north American friends here are discussing all those experiences with customs, are you mostly buying stuff which is getting produced in NA? For me as someone often importing stuff from foreign countries it is just normal. Most often i would have to go to the customs office and...

strong cough warning for the video

i think one of the last FW updates does some sort of reset by default. I also actively used that feature and presets 1-4 get reverted to factory state, it works as intended

This is a bit of a pity for playing Dolby Atmos games (a few are already available) since delaying the picture will cause a unbearable delay in any case. I was hoping to utilize the A16 for that purpose. For watching movies i would have to buy a Blu Ray player which is capable of delaying the...

It makes a huge difference if you want to take a measurement, lets say in a IMAX cinema or a movie postproduction mixing stage. Without Async measurement you will have to convince the owners to unplug the cables from their Dolby decoder/amp rack and put the line outs of your A16 in. Apart from...

I think the back USB port is for connecting the A16 to digital audio workstations like Pro Tools or Nuendo. The audio software then sees the A16 as 16 channel output device. This would be useful for example for sound designers which intend to listen to their work on the A16 if they dont have the...

Yea, this will only solve watching movies. We have been promised a 3ms low latency gaming mode, that would be very important or i will keep my A8 hooked up to the PC for playing games. Also a must have for most wireless HP and other cases. Screenshot from Kickstarter page

I think a try and error approach with movies will suffice, just look for a part with close up dialogue or lets say a gun being fired with a muzzle flash and shift it until its in sync, it is quite obvious. Or try some You Tube search term "AV Sync" and test patterns like this could be helpful...

It might have eluded you in this 400+ pages long thread, but latency issues have been discussed here. Namely a audio latency of about 2-3 frames using Atmos mode, meaning audio is in some usage cases about 80ms up to 120ms late. This would be significantly more than the advertised 30ms. Of...

I can understand the frustration of a lot of users. Public relations definetly does not seem to be the strong suit of Smyth Research, as well as the marketing aspect. Here are some wild guesses from me, pure speculation, what the reasons for this behaviour MIGHT be. If they would care of...

I provided a link to this forum to James when i reported the "BUZZ" issue. So they may actually read it. Given how much work they have to do at the moment brings up doubts though.

some new website (at least for me) which appears to be a shop selling the A16, some pictures are still offline etc, seems to be in early stage: https://heavenly-sound.com/

Yea, ideally we should migrate to a Smyth Realiser forum, hopfully this is planned. We could archive the content from here at that Smyth Research forum and continue there.

Hi, we are at page 445 with this thread now. Audiohobbit put up a poll on his bug list/requested feature list which got burried meanwhile and only like 3 users voted yet. I think its about time we create a proper sub forum where important anouncements and polls could be stickied (the release of...

All i can say the Smyth brothers solved 2 of the major bugs we found within 24 hours. Issue 1 was me and another user here in the forum having strange delay artifacts and bloated reverb when switching to factory presets. Issue 2 was "THE BUZZ" I asked Stephen for permission and i am allowed...

thanks for the quick response, that worked.

I just tried copying a PRIR from permanent internal storage to a SDHC card formatted with FAT32, i used it blank and then with a "realiser" folder in it, both times it pretended to copy something with a green progress bar but not actually writing any data to the SD card. It is a 32gb card. As i...

I would still include the buzz issue in your list, maybe they wanna know which firmware was used etc.