Question by Ryan: How to get the best sound quality for music on my Home Stereo System?
My Home stereo system is the top notch of 2013, it is a ONKYO reciever hooked to 2013 Boss home stereo speakers. I am wondering how to get the best quality of this system?
#1 There is an option for 1080P Res then 4K Up Then Through, Then Auto. which one do i choose?
#2 It also has an option for
A/P –
M/M –
2CH –
DDD –
DTS –
MCH –
and it ask stuff like T-D or Stereo Or PlIIx Movie, or Last Valid?
what options should I select for each?
please help me, i want to make my music sound like the Beats By Dre!
BTW AVDaddy is a complete Dick
Best answer:
Answer by AVDADDY
Q: How to get the best sound quality for music on my Home Stereo System?
A: Get rid of those lousy speakers.
Onkyo receivers have excellent manuals. Read yours.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
AV Daddy is correct, albeit a bit curt.
Any sound system is only as good as its worst component. Now, do you actually have Boss speakers or do you have Bose speakers? Either way, great improvement can be made by replacing them. Boss speakers are, to my knowledge, car audio speakers. Such, even in proper enclosures, are far from ideal for home stereo use. Bose speakers are designed to trick the ear rather than reproduce accurate sound. They are WAF speakers – Wife Approval Factor – small, inconspicuous, easily fit almost any decor.
“The top notch of 2013”. I beg to differ. Granted, Onkyo receivers are probably the best moderately priced receivers, very good indeed. But you make a great claim. The real “top notch” stuff is much more pricey, such as the receivers made by B&K and Pioneer Elite. In truth, the real high end systems do not include a receiver at all. Such function would be served by a preamp / tuner and a power amplifier. The real audio snobs would only consider tube amplifiers and many would only consider such matched to horn loaded (full range, with a horn loaded woofer), point source or electrostatic speakers.
So by making this claim you have put yourself in the firing line of the many audio aficionados on the internet and some of them are indeed complete dicks. Quite frankly you got off lightly.
But to answer your question, start by reading the owners manual of the Onkyo, particularly the section on sound fields and DSP, and start looking for better speakers.
Well Im glad you like your system, but sorry to say this is far from a top notch system. Not only are Bose speakers low end, all receivers are pretty low end as well, as there are many compromises in sound quality with receivers.
A good system will consist of speakers made by manufactures that specialize in high quality sound which can only be purchased in a high end audio store. Most of these brands most people have never heard of, as they are only sold in specialty stores. A integrated amplifier would be the best choice for those on a budget they use much better parts than that used in receivers, and they dont put a bunch of features that compromise sound quality. A state of the art music system will use separates. Its endless what you can spend on a high quality music system and they can only be purchased at a high end audio store.
Kevin
40 years high end audio video specialist
There is a fine line between “complete Dick” and “brutally honest”. AVDADDY is brutally honest. As Octep has already mentioned, both Bose and Boss are not high-end, not by a long shot so it doesn’t matter if you wrote Boss intentionally or if you meant to write Bose. Boss is primarily car audio and Bose is the laughing stock of the home audio world.
Moving on now…
#1. 1080P or 4K. Use 1080P unless you have a 4K TV which I doubt. These are just becoming available and are not cheap. Not sure if you can get one under $ 10,000.00 yet. Also, there are no sources that are 4K (2160P). BluRay is 1080P and there currently no new disc formats coming that support 4K.
#2. These are surround settings. For digital inputs these should be selected automatically depending on the source input. If you have a 2-ch source you will be able to use some of these for simulated surround. The Onkyo manual should have descriptions of what each setting means.
Sorry we are bursting your bubble of having “the top notch of 2013”. The key is that you be happy with the performance of the system. You would need to have spent a couple hundred thousand more dollars to even be in the running for “upper notch” systems much less be the “top”. Depending on which Onkyo receiver you have, you might have an ok mass market receiver. Doesn’t matter if you have Boss or Bose speakers, either way the first step to get the best sound would be to replace those with “real” speakers. Be prepared to spend a bit more than Bose.
mk