Post by jpwoodbu on Nov 27, 2023 19:53:58 GMT -5
Hello all! I'm about to post something in the Remote Controls forum that I hope others find interesting, so I thought I should probably introduce myself here first.
I'm in NC. I've been into movies and music since I was in high school. I have a degree in music performance, which got me a job in... tech. I've had so many different AVRs until I guess I out grew them. I didn't really get on the audiophile track until maybe about 8 years ago and after a few years of developing my audiophile ear, I started to find faults I couldn't live with in my AVR.
One of those faults was fixed by adding an XPA Gen 3 to my AVR, relieving it of amplification duty. Eventually though, I had to get something with a lower noise floor, so I picked up an RMC-1L and got rid of the AVR. So happy with that choice!
In my viewing space, all my audio gear is positioned in a rack behind me, so I was delighted that the IR remote with the RMC-1L still worked pretty well from the couch as long as I angled it up a bit. But I like listening to music too, ideally without having to turn on (or listen to) the projector. So I needed something more than the IR remote, and I'm an Android user (foreshadowing).
I'm really happy that a company like Emotiva exists to give us an option that's sonically better, at least to me, than any AVR and less expensive (like a lot less expensive!) than so many dealer-channel brand's separates.
So, nice to meet you all! Glad to be here.
I'm in NC. I've been into movies and music since I was in high school. I have a degree in music performance, which got me a job in... tech. I've had so many different AVRs until I guess I out grew them. I didn't really get on the audiophile track until maybe about 8 years ago and after a few years of developing my audiophile ear, I started to find faults I couldn't live with in my AVR.
One of those faults was fixed by adding an XPA Gen 3 to my AVR, relieving it of amplification duty. Eventually though, I had to get something with a lower noise floor, so I picked up an RMC-1L and got rid of the AVR. So happy with that choice!
In my viewing space, all my audio gear is positioned in a rack behind me, so I was delighted that the IR remote with the RMC-1L still worked pretty well from the couch as long as I angled it up a bit. But I like listening to music too, ideally without having to turn on (or listen to) the projector. So I needed something more than the IR remote, and I'm an Android user (foreshadowing).
I'm really happy that a company like Emotiva exists to give us an option that's sonically better, at least to me, than any AVR and less expensive (like a lot less expensive!) than so many dealer-channel brand's separates.
So, nice to meet you all! Glad to be here.
And as of about 6 months ago, the screen died too. I'm using a Raspberry Pi to control it over its serial port with my phone now. It seems that slowly, I'm migrating to using my phone to control everything. Which I suppose has the virtue of keeping the coffee table clean 
