AVexcel - Episode 194 →

AVexcel - Episode 194
Recorded on November 25, 2022
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- Next Patreon hangout on Dec 22nd
- Projector lamp sources
- Calculators are your (projection) friend
- Comcast + FIFA + Dolby Vision
- Business/commercial display options
- New Disney+ plans/prices
- Dolby Vision picture presets
- The best 4K and 8K LCD TVs
- Equal Loudness curve/contour
- CTA-2010 subwoofer benchmark
- Bill Burr's podcast on YouTube
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- Email us ask@avexcel.com
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 175

AVexcel - Episode 175
Recorded on March 30, 2022
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- 2022 LG OLED pricing/availability
- LG C2 OLED panel lottery
- Disney+ edits Netflix Marvel acquisition
- Android's Apple TV app problem
- Spotify pays $7B in 2021
- HLG and HGiG calibration
- Audyssey Labs calibrated mics
- 1MORE PistonBuds Pro
- Active noise cancellation
- Analyzing your viewing habits
- Loudness normalization
- #askavexcel
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 60

Recorded on October 12, 2017. 
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown: 
  - Amazing Stories returns
  - Defining an audiophile
  - Calibrating surround speakers
  - Dolby Vision optimization
  - Sound meter settings
  - Your excellent feedback & questions 

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AVexcel - Episode 49

Recorded on July 7, 2017 - Patrick and Robert celebrate Disney’s first UHD Blu-ray release, pit QLED vs. OLED, witness vinyl's resurgence, consider exotic speaker components, prepare themselves for Cord Cutting Day, and so much more! 

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Episode 34

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron are compiling the home theater goodness

Our Patreon supporters make AVexcel possible, and we thank 'em all

Post CES 2017

• Plague
• Eye candy
• Sweet sounds

TVs

• LG Wallpaper OLED
  • Ribbon cable for power+AV
• Samsung QLED
  • Quantum color volume
  • AutoCal via CalMAN
  • HLG DirecTV demo
• Sony
  • A1E OLED
  • Sweet Acoustic Surface
• Panasonic
  • EZ1000 OLED
  • Superb picture quality

Projectors

• Panasonic holographic projection film
• LG ProBeam 1080p laser projector
  • Smart apps + ATSC tuner
• JVC 4K HDR laser projector
  • DLA-RS4500 ~$35K
  • DCI color and beyond
  • Blue-laser light engine
  • 6-banks of 8-diodes
  • Fixed phosphor design
• Hisense 4K Laser Cast soon
  • Prototype w/95% BT.2020
• EVP/Elite Screens light-rejecting demos
• Sony 4K HDR short throw projector

TV tech doings

• Small HDR screens
• HDMI 2.1
• 3D ghosts
• HDR formats grow
  • Dolby Vision
  • HDR10
  • Hybrid Log Gamma
  • Technicolor
• Nanosys quantum dots
  • Not owned by Samsung
    • More strategic partnership
  • Next year: QD in color filter
  • Electro-emissive in 3-years

High-resolution audio

• Digital downloads down
  • Everyone streaming
• Hi-Res Audio Press Conference
  • Digital Entertainment Group (DEG)
• HDtracks
• Master Quality Authenticated
  • ~15,000 albums MQA now
  • 200+ MQA titles on TIDAL
  • Stereophile's Hi-Res Breakthroughs
• Pandora/Rhapsody/Napster going hi-res

All the sound

• Emotiva loudspeakers/amps/subs
• Audirvana
• AudioQuest
• Astell&Kern
• Panasonic
• Onkyo
• Mytek
• NAD
• Bluesound
• Air Motion Transformer
• KEF LS50 Wireless
• ELAC
  • Brother Paul requests a review
  • Debut
  • Uni-Fi
  • Adante
  • Element amp
• Revel Salon2
• Texas Instruments
  • High-Power Amps
  • Efficient
  • DIY potential

Dolby Cinema

• FINALLY arrives in San Francisco
• Dolby Cinema at AMC
• Dolby-enhanced Christe Digital 6P laser projector
• Mindblowingly colorful
• Superb contrast

Tips, tricks, and help

• @Kido1986 needs a smaller HDR screen
• @jellingwood eyeing sweet soundbars
  • Bose SoundTouch 300
  • Onkyo SBT-A500
• Nicholas Smith seeks portable FLAC
  • Astell&Kern AK Jr
  • FiiO X1

Thank you

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Connect with us

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  • @patricknorton
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Recorded on January 12, 2017

Episode #029

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron are maximizing the home theater goodness

Our Patreon supporters make AVexcel possible, and we thank every one of them

The guys are (finally) back

What excites your senses

• Domestic bliss
• Mayhem in moderation
• Less Mad Max in Bay Area

Speaker acceptance factor

• KEF T305 surround sound system
• ELAC Uni-FI B5
• Bookshelf speaker placement
  • Elevated + off the wall
• Speaker stands
  • Pangea Audio LS200
  • LS300 for a little more
• Blu-Tack Reusable Adhesive
• Sorbothane
• Spiked speaker stands (or not)
  • Audioholics to the rescue

Full-bore 3D sound setup

• Atmos allows for 30+ speakers
• 11-channel amp/decoder/receiver = $$$
  • Denon AVR-X6300H = fine example
• Trinnov Altitude32 preamplifier = lust-worthy
• Pat: stereo ceiling Atmos setup sounds good
• Emotiva

We want your questions ask@avexcel.com

Two Patreon Hangouts down + many more to come

Brian aka @neccros Tweeted a need for Class-T amplification

• Needs small footprint
• $200 or less
• Start w/Lepai Class-T amp
• Lepy LP-2020A Class-D
• Upgrade power supply for better sound
• Dayton Audio APA100
  • Class AB, $99

HDMI Follow-up

• Samsung UHD BD player (UBD-K8500) does 4K apps too
• Fewer HDMI issues thanks to Simplay Labs

Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) Follow-up

• Not 'no metadata', but a scene-referred signal
• For live production, not stuff on discs/streaming
• Some 4K projectors support HLG now

Favorite Blu-ray/4K/Streaming

• Netflix The Crown = really good
• To Live and Die in L.A.
• One-eyed Jacks
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• The Squid and the Whale
• C.H.U.D.

Transducers for all the LFE

• ButtKicker
• AuraSound Pro Bass Shaker
• The Bass Shaker Site

Thank you

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Connect with us

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  • @patricknorton
  • @robertheron
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Recorded November 23, 2016