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I clarified my thinking. He clarified his position. So lets move on.

I am partial to Yamaha but their are certainly other brands. I would stay away from Sony. Most companies have a phone app these days but I have not used most of them. That will remove the need for an IR repeater. I believe for Yamaha the RX-V6A is the least expensive 7.1 receiver with zone 2...

The cat 6 wire is most likely meant for a HDMI extender. As before it might want to be an eARC one, although not necessary if you use a cable box or something like a Roku for streaming. A couple of more questions. Are their speaker wires between the L, R, Center and the closet? There would...

I am not the OP so it is not my case. I am not irritated, I just truly did not understand the comment. It seemed like you were trying to link the EU and Canada situations. Sorry for the confusion.

OK. Please explain how this relates to a sale in Canada of an product made by an American company. The discussion of the situation in the EU is perhaps interesting but I still do not see the relevance to this situation unless the assumption is that the same rules are true in Canada.

If you have to go with an HDMI extender, be sure it does eARC. That will allow you to use the streaming capabilities of the TV with the AV receiver.

How does an EU regulation apply to a purchase in Canada from a US company???

This seems like a classic AV receiver application with zone 2 outputs, possible with a separate amp to drive the patio speakers in zone 2. But the receiver would probably be in the AV closet which makes remote control more complicated. However, their needs to be an HDMI connection from the...

Four surround speakers sounds like surrounds and surround backs. Three on patio seems like a separate setup - music only? If music only, are they meant to be run as mono speakers? Or it is meant as Left, right, center for a TV? Are these speakers mono or stereo? From the specs on Episode's...

The issue is whether you can connect Wiim devices like my PROs at 24/192 with the native Wiim system. I want to play high-resolution files from my computer to my Wiim devices all at high-resolution using the link function which also keeps them in sync. I do not want Chromecast or Google Cast or...

It also says "across Roon Ready and Google Cast endpoints". It does not appear to say anything about high-resolution across all Wiim devices. So, it is not clear how "Universal" that is. Hopefully it includes all Wiim devices, although that is not clear to me. Universal Hi-Res Multi-Room...

Agreed. I think the original discussion was that you cannot do DSPs or volume control on a DSD file or stream. I think that is the case. During it during a D to A conversion is a different thing. Just wanted to clarify.

Does that actually do a digital conversion of the original data to a new stream of digital DSD data or is it part of the D to A process?

I believe volume control can only be done on the analog output of the D to A chip. Volume control cannot be applied to the digital data directly. At least that is what I understand. What chip(s) do you think does volume control on the digital data?

I note that this is an Ultra update but there are not similar updates for other devices like Mini, Pro, Pro Plus, Amp and Amp Pro. The roadmaps for them are still Oct. 2024. I hope this does not mean that only the Ultra will get these new features but that there is simply a delay in updating the...