That must have been an aspirational statement when I made it. I'm in Reno.

Hmm... Well I'm still here. @ericw Did you ever make it?

Well, I'm assuming all of the DSP magic would probably blow right through a -0.0 into digital gain territory and sound like trash, hence the need for copious headroom. I'm just trying to get a sense of where the location with the least amount of digital attenuation, while simultaneously offering...

Ah, okay. That makes sense, and also explains why I've had such a difficult time finding the one sweet spot. Just from experience, I've sort of settled around 63-65, which seems to yield adequate headroom, but I feared also a bit conservative. One of the things confusing me was the adjustable...

When using digital out of the A16, what's the ideal output volume on the A16 's dial?

I could never SSH into the Red, but I plugged my A16 into my other Linux box. This is what lsusb says: (Notably, the device class is listed as "255 Vendor Specific Class"). -- Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0a4a:5a16 Ploytec GmbH REALISER-A16 Couldn't open device, some information will be missing...

Does anyone know the login info for the Red? I'm trying to SSH into it. Is SSH even enabled? Thanks.

Unfortunately I can't seem to figure out the login info for the Red. Tried un "pi" and pw "raspberry". Tried un 'admin' pw 'password'. Not sure what else to try.

By "see", I mean that I cannot get the A16 to appear with the other audio devices in Roon settings. The Red is a "USB redirector". The Red knows when it's connected to the A16 and I can tell it to "redirect" to it. With my other DAC, it would appear in Roon as a USB device. But the A16 does not.

Hello all, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting their Realiser to communicate with a USB streamer? I have a Holo Red and am hoping to use USB for multichannel. The Red is able to see the Realiser's Ploytech USB interface, but Roon doesn't see it. Any ideas?

Hurry up so we can have Reno fi!

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Could someone please explain to me how to change listening rooms? As far as I can tell, there are two rooms pre-loaded into the A16, the BBC room and a room at Surrey, with the BBC room the default. I'd like to try the Surrey room, but I just can't seem to figure out how to change it. I made a...

That's super interesting. I'll give that a try this weekend! Thanks!

Hmm... Well no matter how I approach this I'm going to have to find a way to somehow suspend speakers from the ceiling. No idea how I'm going to do that. Problem for this weekend perhaps. One question. How exactly do I combine files? The Smyth website has some tool for combining files. Do I use...

You mean with like an HDMI audio splitter of sorts? Oh, my bad. That was a poor choice of words given the context. I meant it figuratively in that I'm almost certain I don't have eARC and am limited to 16 channels. But while we're on the subject, I'm still dialing in the sound. I managed to...

Did it impact sound quality at all?

Hmm. Considering various workarounds. I could use a video streaming device like an Apple TV/Roku, but I'm hoping to preserve Dolby Vision and HDR10. Does the HDMI passthrough on the 1901 models support that?

Hmm. Well, it doesn't sound good. Looks like I got a very early model. Fortunately I don't think I need 24 channels and there are workarounds for eARC. Still trying to decide if I want to keep it. Any idea how reliable these things are? I'm not getting good feels from Smyth and would hate to...

Good idea. Here is the image of the system info. It's obviously one of the 1901 models. I don't believe it's been upgraded because I bought it "new-in-box". Pretty sure it was never opened. If I don't have eARC, what's the upgrade process look like? So far my experience with Smyth is that they...

Hello, I'm having trouble getting eARC to work on my unit. I got mine used and in fact can't seem to tell if it even has it. There is no HDMI port labeled eARC. The manual says (if HDMI board is present), but I have no idea what that means. I'm pretty sure my cable is up to date. Big honking...

I'm hoping they're a success.

I get it. You watched GoldenOne's video. Except his tests were invalid. None of his recordings were converted properly. He even admits that the encoder warnings, but glosses over that fact. I'm afraid it's you who are "arguing from ignorance". The data in an MQA file are changed from a digital...

This is so ignorant. It's not lossy in any way that matters. Stop having a panic over the l-word. It isn't MP3.