We have #sports on nostr now? 🤯

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Is it safe? Do I put my real data while testing?

Well, the receiver has its own 9(?)-channel amp built-in, so I'm just sending those five channels out to the exterior amp.

But, yeah, took me a while of reading the online manuals and scouring forums to make sure I got a receiver that could do this.

What really sold me on Atmos was just how lovely the musical score is when it's lifted partially toward the ceiling. It just adds a fullness that's so right. And it's hard to explain, but it helps to have the usual surround effects "on the ground" (e.g. a car driving on gravel conveyed by the 5.1 or 7.1 horizontal plane) while the music sits above it. Sounds contradictory, but being able to separate elements like that creates a more cohesive whole.

The biggest hurdle with Atmos (aside from the addiction of adding more and more speakers) is the receiver/amp situation.

7.x (non-Atmos) receivers are ubiquitous ("x" can be anywhere from 1 sub to 4, but that doesn't matter here).

But if they have Atmos onboard, then can switch between:

7.x vs 5.x.2

(the ceiling ".2" speakers need to be amplified, so they eat up two of the 7 channels).

So a 7-channel Atmos receiver is really your minimum.

If you want 5.x.4, you need a 9-channel amp. Starting to get more expensive.

But the full Atmos spec supports 7.x.y ("y" = in theory I think you can go insane to like 30 ceiling speakers).

If you want 7.x.4, that's 11 total channels. Only a few really high-end receivers provide that many amped channels. Megabucks.

BUT the clever workaround is that there are 7- and 9-channel receivers that offer you the line-level (not amplified) audio out for the missing channels, you just have to pipe that to a separate amp.

And in my case, my separate amp is the GOOD AMP. So even though my receiver can amplify 9 channels(?), I'm only using 6 of them and instead I have my good amp doing the most important work:

Proceed AMP5: L, R, C, side L, side R

Receiver: rear L, rear R, top front L, top front R, top rear L, top rear R

Will do!

I had to pause and think about it for a sec, though. I think my gear is very good and not cheap, but not so ridiculous that it'll create extra incentive for a $5 wrench attack.

My two most expensive, most important components were acquired probably 20 years ago. Kinda fun to think that I've slowly pieced together and evolved this system over all that time.

Nobody will care…

I removed all the music I had uploaded to wavlake. I am not comfortable with a platform which allows users to game their billboard and solely uses zaps to gauge engagement. nostr:note1myu7vm8e374g706glyr9uh9sm3jpw0ylykqt4x9dyzpta8smpuws3sy9lf paid promotion needs to be labeled as such.

How did I know users were gaming the billboard? Their zap tally kept growing, but the amount of supporters remained the same. The same sats we’re used multiple times (losing a bit on fees each time). The manipulation by this so called member of the community was relentless, and when I started competing with him replicating the approach it went absolutely overboard.

After the short exchange with WL quoted above, the supporters count suddenly went buggy and stopped displaying data. After pointing this to WL, they claimed a bug and then proceeded to remove it totally from their UI.

Last but not least, when looking at where WL gets its financial support from I noticed that Hivemind Ventures also funds Primal, a Nostr client with a gameable “leaderboard”.

Have fun, without me.