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Or a series of unfortunate events the wife blames on anything new.
My equipment is old. My Yamaha RX-V661 AVR is 15 years old this year and was planning to upgrade. First I thought I'd upgrade the centre speaker, which was a Monitor Audio Radius 180HD. The dialogue wasn't bad but the front soundstage seemed to lacking and I had to increase the decibels on this speaker considerably.
I then ordered Dali Oberon Vokal and also Dali Oberon 5's to go with it and replace my aging Monitor Audio Bronze BR2's dating from.. over 10 years ago like all the rest of my stuff.
After 30 days I still had not received my speakers and was told the Oberon 5's were on back order so cancelled them and Hi Fi Hut sent out the Vokal.. but it was white and I ordered black. I went to their collection point and picked up a black one. That was a week ago
Hooked that speaker without having to do much except move the Sky Q box slightly to the left. Job done. Sky was fine and Beelink media player. Great I thought, a no fuss change that'll please her. I then tried Sky Q again. No sound. Of course my wife starts giving out and I'm like but I didn't bloody hardly do anything. It's the new speaker she says.
I traced the issue to what appears to be a non functioning optical port in my old receiver. Why did it stop working now? No idea. Very strange. I swapped cables around, the optical cable is fine it's definitely the port. I get audio with it hooked to a spare optical port. I'm using optical for Sky Q until I get a new AVR then I'll use the HDMI of course.
I then try the Pioneer DVD player. No picture or sound. I wiggle the component cables around and get a picture. No sound. Looks like the Coaxial port in my AVR has also died but when I don't know I rarely use the DVD player. Multi-channel inputs are working though. My wife isn't enjoying any of this.
I run YPAO in Flat mode and everything seems fine. Rears seen louder for some reason but not unreasonably so. TV shows sound fine.
Last night I want to watch The Bourne Identity on Blu-ray. I turn on the player (actually a Panasonic UHD player) and no image appears on TV. The TV is a Panasonic plasma bought in 2011 and it's something else I plan to upgrade. Anyway my wife blames the new speaker for the fact I have no image on the TV. The UHD player sends decoded audio to the AVR via one HDMI cable and the image to the TV via another HDMI cable. I take the HDMI cable which connects to the TV out and get a little electric shock from the end. I have a spare HDMI cable lying around so use that and finally get the Blu-ray on the TV at last. I've no idea why the HDMI cable picked this moment to fail. My wife is not impressed and still said I did something when I installed the centre speaker. I put on the movie and the rears are VERY LOUD much louder than they should be. My wife is not impressed and puts her hands over her ears a lot. Presume I need to run YPAO again but it'll have to wait.
Been thinking on getting the Dali Oberon 3's for L + R as I can't really put them further than 5' apart so floorstanding speakers won't really suit, and a Yamaha A4A. I'd buy them now only for the wife factor.. I've been noticing a lot of comments about wife friendly setups and wives complaining that sound is too loud. Also you can't account for gremlins in the setup.
Are all wives like this and don't believe in upgrading, just buying new stuff when the old equipment stops working?
My equipment is old. My Yamaha RX-V661 AVR is 15 years old this year and was planning to upgrade. First I thought I'd upgrade the centre speaker, which was a Monitor Audio Radius 180HD. The dialogue wasn't bad but the front soundstage seemed to lacking and I had to increase the decibels on this speaker considerably.
I then ordered Dali Oberon Vokal and also Dali Oberon 5's to go with it and replace my aging Monitor Audio Bronze BR2's dating from.. over 10 years ago like all the rest of my stuff.
After 30 days I still had not received my speakers and was told the Oberon 5's were on back order so cancelled them and Hi Fi Hut sent out the Vokal.. but it was white and I ordered black. I went to their collection point and picked up a black one. That was a week ago
Hooked that speaker without having to do much except move the Sky Q box slightly to the left. Job done. Sky was fine and Beelink media player. Great I thought, a no fuss change that'll please her. I then tried Sky Q again. No sound. Of course my wife starts giving out and I'm like but I didn't bloody hardly do anything. It's the new speaker she says.
I traced the issue to what appears to be a non functioning optical port in my old receiver. Why did it stop working now? No idea. Very strange. I swapped cables around, the optical cable is fine it's definitely the port. I get audio with it hooked to a spare optical port. I'm using optical for Sky Q until I get a new AVR then I'll use the HDMI of course.
I then try the Pioneer DVD player. No picture or sound. I wiggle the component cables around and get a picture. No sound. Looks like the Coaxial port in my AVR has also died but when I don't know I rarely use the DVD player. Multi-channel inputs are working though. My wife isn't enjoying any of this.
I run YPAO in Flat mode and everything seems fine. Rears seen louder for some reason but not unreasonably so. TV shows sound fine.
Last night I want to watch The Bourne Identity on Blu-ray. I turn on the player (actually a Panasonic UHD player) and no image appears on TV. The TV is a Panasonic plasma bought in 2011 and it's something else I plan to upgrade. Anyway my wife blames the new speaker for the fact I have no image on the TV. The UHD player sends decoded audio to the AVR via one HDMI cable and the image to the TV via another HDMI cable. I take the HDMI cable which connects to the TV out and get a little electric shock from the end. I have a spare HDMI cable lying around so use that and finally get the Blu-ray on the TV at last. I've no idea why the HDMI cable picked this moment to fail. My wife is not impressed and still said I did something when I installed the centre speaker. I put on the movie and the rears are VERY LOUD much louder than they should be. My wife is not impressed and puts her hands over her ears a lot. Presume I need to run YPAO again but it'll have to wait.
Been thinking on getting the Dali Oberon 3's for L + R as I can't really put them further than 5' apart so floorstanding speakers won't really suit, and a Yamaha A4A. I'd buy them now only for the wife factor.. I've been noticing a lot of comments about wife friendly setups and wives complaining that sound is too loud. Also you can't account for gremlins in the setup.
Are all wives like this and don't believe in upgrading, just buying new stuff when the old equipment stops working?