What helped me, mentally, to justify the cost was thinking of the Denon more as an 8+ channel DAC. Re: Penteo, HaloGen, et al., I opened support tickets explaining exactly what you mentioned in OP and their reply was "I think it will work but you're definitely going it alone." I just don't have time to reinvent the wheel If you manage to get ahold of someone, they're basically guaranteed to be an underpaid, overworked binder reader who can't do much for you. Unfortunately, I was never able to get the official Atmos or DTS decoders to work from the MS app store and there's essentially no support. I completely agree with you, modern PCs are more than capable. Otherwise the 3700 is a great value or perhaps one of the new Onkyo/Pioneer which offer DL+BM, although I'm not aware of any bench tests proving their capabilities as of yet. If you want Auro, which I totally recommend, unfortunately you need the 4700.
I would love to achieve the same thing, but my conclusion after spending hours looking into it: If you have the means, save yourself a ton of headache and just get a Denon. To be clear: I am not producing something, i only use some pro hard- and software for playback. Or am I missing something and it doesn't work that way? Good AVRs/Processors are also sometimes extremely expensive.ĭo I see it right that I can simply use a (hopefully good quality?) plugin like Penteo 16 Pro for $ 350 with jRiver or Reaper and that would meet my needs on the PC? There are AVRs that can do this, but I don't really want such a device, because the RME interface and the PC are actually quite enough and hardware and software are actually sufficiently available.
That is, I actually need an upmixer for stereo -> 5.0 and a downmixer of Atmos -> 5.0. There seems to be more and more music for Atmos, but I don't want a full Atmos system, 5.0 will do for now. I am interested in good (natural) upmix solutions for stereo music as well as playback of music mixed for surround. I will also use Dirac Live, already own a license.
I have an RME UCX II and active studio monitors and use a Windows PC exclusively for playback. I would like to upgrade my system from 2.0 to 5.0 soon.
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