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AV Rant #405: Phantom Receiver

October 21st, 2014

SVS released a new cylinder subwoofer and Jay wants to know what we think (LINK). Oh, and some new speakers too. Sammy want our take on the $330k a pair Tesseract speakers (LINK). Apparently, our race car driver Paul has to crash the AV Rant car in order to win (LINK). Works for us but stay safe Paul! Michael shares a story, asks for some of ours, and tells us about TVMobili – another HTPC front end (LINK). Tony tells us about his in-wall speakers and back boxes, Gaylen still hasn’t replaced his broken Onkyo, and David has a story about an AV Rant fan that Tom really wants to believe. Gary has a question about creating realistic audio and is interested in the new Pioneer Atmos receivers. Stephen has a couple of questions about folded ribbon tweeters, Nathan shared an article about 4k that has Rob almost saying something negative about another person (LINK), and Rohan needs some subwoofer buying advice. Thanks for listening. Now, don't forget to:

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  1. Rob H
    October 29th, 2014 at 08:55 | #1

    SVS introduced their new Prime Series speakers and PC-2000 cylinder subwoofer:

    http://www.audioholics.com/tower-speaker-reviews/svs-prime-speakers-and-pc-2000-subwoofer

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    AV Rant Listener Sammy C. —

    found some more oddly shaped speakers for us to consider.

    The Avalon Tesseract speakers cost $330,000/pair. Seems a shame they couldn’t afford a decent web designer:

    http://www.johndelisle.nl/tesseract/2/#top

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    AV Rant Listener Michael R. —

    wanted to add TV Mobili to the list of media server software options:

    http://www.tvmobili.com/

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    AV Rant Listener Gary —

    pointed out that Pioneer Elite’s Atmos-capable AV Receivers have their manuals online now:

    SC-85: http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Unassigned-Content/Manuals/SC-85+OPERATING+INSTRUCTIONS

    SC-87 & SC-89: http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Unassigned-Content/Manuals/SC-89+OPERATING+INSTRUCTIONS

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    AV Rant Listener Nathan W. —

    wanted to know what we’d make of this blog post from the Home Cinema Guru. In short, we did not agree:

    http://www.homecinemaguru.com/can-we-see-4kuhd-on-a-normal-sized-screen-you-betcha/

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