Guys I have the oppertunity to talk with a Rotel senior staff member who will be talking with the programmers shortly so this is our oppertunity to make sure he's aware of all the firmware related isssues we'd like to see addressed. Please feel free to add to this list where approp.
I think the biggest priority right now should be to change the firmware to correctly allow the "YES" setting of the subwoofer to only redirect bass from small speakers. It currently functions as the Subwoofer "MAX" setting
Once that's fixed I'd look at the following requests...not in any particular order....
1. Display signal analysis like "dts 5.1 768k" or "Dolby Digital Surround EX 448k" or "2ch PCM 16/48 1,536k" etc. etc. when detected
2. I'd like to be able to turn off the Rec out on the LCD display. An easy work around for Rotel would be to simply allow a blank character to be used for an input that way we could rename the rec out to be all blank...of course I'd prefer to a simple on/off option in the menu but I'll take what we can get.
3. I think it would be much easier for the average user if Rotel moved away from the old millisecond delay method and simply allowed users to input the distance to the speaker.
4. It would be nice to have the volume displayed on the LCD at all times
5. Remove the DSP mode selection from 6.1 inputs since they have no effect anyway and remove DD-EX and DTS-EX as options when only 5 speakers are installed.
6. It would be nice if you could some things using just the LCD without having to navigate the OSD menu (which is not even visible for many due to component sources). For instance, if there were discrete remote codes I could use to get into the Test Tone setup, that would be nice. I would also like to be able to the parameters for DPL2-Music without going into the OSD menu
7. This might be the most difficult but how about different speaker settings for each surround mode ie. you could set the speakers to small for DD or DTS and large for 2 channel music and have these settings remembered so you can set them and forget them!
8. Increase the number of characters you can use for input labels
9. Increase the granularity of the sub crossover
10. Display Rotel XS processing when this mode is running
11. I would really, really like to see a future upgrade include an easier way to control whether the CB speaker is on or not. I really like the rear surround in movies, but I'm not liking it so much for music.
12. On the Sub Setup menu where you can set the sub level for each of the sound formats, instead of having 'min' as the lowest setting, why not have the option of turning it 'off'?
I think the biggest priority right now should be to change the firmware to correctly allow the "YES" setting of the subwoofer to only redirect bass from small speakers. It currently functions as the Subwoofer "MAX" setting
Once that's fixed I'd look at the following requests...not in any particular order....
1. Display signal analysis like "dts 5.1 768k" or "Dolby Digital Surround EX 448k" or "2ch PCM 16/48 1,536k" etc. etc. when detected
2. I'd like to be able to turn off the Rec out on the LCD display. An easy work around for Rotel would be to simply allow a blank character to be used for an input that way we could rename the rec out to be all blank...of course I'd prefer to a simple on/off option in the menu but I'll take what we can get.
3. I think it would be much easier for the average user if Rotel moved away from the old millisecond delay method and simply allowed users to input the distance to the speaker.
4. It would be nice to have the volume displayed on the LCD at all times
5. Remove the DSP mode selection from 6.1 inputs since they have no effect anyway and remove DD-EX and DTS-EX as options when only 5 speakers are installed.
6. It would be nice if you could some things using just the LCD without having to navigate the OSD menu (which is not even visible for many due to component sources). For instance, if there were discrete remote codes I could use to get into the Test Tone setup, that would be nice. I would also like to be able to the parameters for DPL2-Music without going into the OSD menu
7. This might be the most difficult but how about different speaker settings for each surround mode ie. you could set the speakers to small for DD or DTS and large for 2 channel music and have these settings remembered so you can set them and forget them!
8. Increase the number of characters you can use for input labels
9. Increase the granularity of the sub crossover
10. Display Rotel XS processing when this mode is running
11. I would really, really like to see a future upgrade include an easier way to control whether the CB speaker is on or not. I really like the rear surround in movies, but I'm not liking it so much for music.
12. On the Sub Setup menu where you can set the sub level for each of the sound formats, instead of having 'min' as the lowest setting, why not have the option of turning it 'off'?
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