As I am often left wondering about the 2.0 listening setup or HT setup I thought it would be helpful to to start a thread on what your gear topology looks like. Let us know your listening goals, what you like and don't like about your setup 😀
My listening goals are to have a nice 2.0 setup while also being able to have the HT experience. I hope to grow out the 2.0 experience along with speaker upgrades to achieve a 7.6.1 setup. The Emotiva RMC-1 will help with the processing part, but I still need more surrounds and another amp. That leaves me with a lot of TBD!
Below is a draw.io diagram I put together to keep track of how the network looks at home for the AV setup. I don't have a vinyl collect yet, thus I stream my music with Roon running on an Alma Linux VM and use a Chromecast. Emotiva unfortunately does not have built in Roon support like other processors on the market 😭. I do have CD's, but I have converted them to FLAC now for archiving and ease of use.
Recently I have started running cat 6a around the house for a planned 10GB upgrade. As more streaming is happening in the household I figured now is a good of time as any to start looking into 10GB. Now that the cable is run I will keep an eye out for a good deal on a switch and NIC card for the streaming server that is on the list to build. Plex looks to be the winner for that build with Unraid.
I have been debating about ordering the March amp that have the Purifi card in them to have class D power for the Ardent D's and then be able to switch between a DAC and the Emotiva to have a more native 2.0 capability. However the bigger priority is getting a new center channel to keep up with the Ardent D's when using them in 5.1.
When I got into DIY I used to troll this website a lot back in 2013 for my first project which was a sub sonotube build with the Dayton Ultimax subs. Then the projects progressed from there. I haven't built as many kits as technodanvan, Steve Manning , or others on the forum, but as JonMarsh tells me, slow work takes time!
My listening goals are to have a nice 2.0 setup while also being able to have the HT experience. I hope to grow out the 2.0 experience along with speaker upgrades to achieve a 7.6.1 setup. The Emotiva RMC-1 will help with the processing part, but I still need more surrounds and another amp. That leaves me with a lot of TBD!
Below is a draw.io diagram I put together to keep track of how the network looks at home for the AV setup. I don't have a vinyl collect yet, thus I stream my music with Roon running on an Alma Linux VM and use a Chromecast. Emotiva unfortunately does not have built in Roon support like other processors on the market 😭. I do have CD's, but I have converted them to FLAC now for archiving and ease of use.
Recently I have started running cat 6a around the house for a planned 10GB upgrade. As more streaming is happening in the household I figured now is a good of time as any to start looking into 10GB. Now that the cable is run I will keep an eye out for a good deal on a switch and NIC card for the streaming server that is on the list to build. Plex looks to be the winner for that build with Unraid.
I have been debating about ordering the March amp that have the Purifi card in them to have class D power for the Ardent D's and then be able to switch between a DAC and the Emotiva to have a more native 2.0 capability. However the bigger priority is getting a new center channel to keep up with the Ardent D's when using them in 5.1.
When I got into DIY I used to troll this website a lot back in 2013 for my first project which was a sub sonotube build with the Dayton Ultimax subs. Then the projects progressed from there. I haven't built as many kits as technodanvan, Steve Manning , or others on the forum, but as JonMarsh tells me, slow work takes time!
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