re: WiSA and other "sound bar killers"

A single volume control up/down as opposed to what ? I honestly lost by what you mean.

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single volume control up/down as opposed to what ? I honestly lost by what you mean.

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You're going to pretend that hdmi soundbars don't disappear as a secondary device when the tv remote controls them?

I use one remote for my TV, Blu-Ray, AVR, X-Box, Fire TV Cube.

I can also give voice commands with Alex for much of it. My wife loves how simple it is to us.

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Me too. I guess you can say they “disappear” since you don’t see any of them. I can also control lights and thermostat with the same remote if I like.

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Ditto. I mostly use Alexa for the lights and thermostat these days though.

I am completely satisfied with my music situation thanks to Chromecast audio and a simple speaker switch. I use a Google mini in the kitchen either by itself if I don't want to wake the house, or to play music from my receiver to whichever speakers I have activated. We use the kitchen/patio pair 99% of the time, so I almost never have to mess with the selector. The only improvement I could imagine for music, for my use, would be a Google controlled switch. Even then, I would rarely use it.

Anyway, I still not close to pulling the trigger. I keep switching between the simplicity of a better sound bar with a couple surrounds, and the multi speaker systems like the Sony or WiSA.

Just buy a Sonos Arc

Purchases made. Glad to get this over. Because my SO is female and not very techy, I went with a sound bar, yet again. This time the Samsung HW-Q950A. The glowing reviews were just too much to ignore. The KLipsch Cinema 800 was close, but there were too many not so glowing reviews.

On the TV, while it would have been nice to pair the bar with a Samsung, I could not get past the Sony X90J 65".


I will wait to get a mount after I see what the current Panny is hung with. I may end up having to pay someone, but I would like to reuse whatever holes are already there.

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awesome let us know how it goes.

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Yeah, I'm really curious about Samsung's auto room calibration.

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Controlling volume with a single remote even with an AVR has been around a while now.

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I’ve used some version of a Logitech Harmony remote for over a decade to control the AVR volume plus all of my devices.

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Controlling volume with a single remote even with an AVR has been around a while now. TV can change the AVR volume level by hdmi-cec or any other device built lately can do this.

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thats nice and all but after my 3rd onkyo in 10 years i was done with the AVR merry-go-round. maybe things have settled down now but i doubt it. this isn't like the 1900s where NTSC tvs remained unchanged for 75 years. too many constant changes and its just stupid you have to throw out a $1000+ device just to add dolbyvision or atmos and spend who knows how much time configuring and buying cables for a new one. who knows when dolbyvision2 or 16k or atmos 1.1 comes out or god help us, they change the "HDMI" spec entirely because God knows a standard HDMI cable looks like a dinosaur now compared to usb-c or lightning. hdmi is too easily hacked so you know the people who run hollywood are cooking up something new to make the experience of connecting our devices as miserable as possible.

thats fine for those who want to play that game but i have 2 AVRS and a box full logitech remotes i'll be happy to sell you.

AVRs were great back in the old days when we needed to integrate 100 CD changers, cassette tape players, dvd/blurary players, etc etc. but nobody needs all that garbage anymore.

i have 10,000+ albums in lossless FLAC format and 1,000s of REMUX movies in HD and 4K. those formats should be good to go for the foreseeable future and the only 'cloud' dependency is praying my server doesn't shite the bed.

all you need is ethernet and electricity.

<-- team WiSA/soundbar forever