Lee Overstreet guest co-hosts while Tom is away. Amazon Prime Day sales bring big discounts to TCL’s newest QM7K and QM8K TVs, including the 98″ models being $1,000 off. And Rob and Lee mildly disagree about removing film grain and then artificially adding it back.

Pictures shown in this episode: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCkYPT

00:00:00 – Intro

Crazy technical issues and improvised fixes. And what’s been going on in Lee’s neck of the woods?

00:13:45 – What We Watched

Lee watched The Eternaut, and Into the Night, both on Netflix. Rob watched Finch, and Severance S.2, both on Apple TV+.

00:33:00 – Listeners of the Week

Our Listeners of the Week are our 129 Patreon Patrons, as well as Dan for reaching out to Adam to offer an inexpensive Emotiva XMC-2 Pre-Pro.

We also appreciate the notes of gratitude for keeping the podcast going from: Jack, Greg, Vince, Joe, Ilango, Karl, and David. Thank you to everyone for continuing to listen!

In the news:

00:38:51 – News: Top Prime Day Deals

We’re sharing AV Nirvana’s Top 10 picks for home theater Prime Day deals, and highlighting the newest TCL QM7K & QM8K models being on sale: https://tinyurl.com/4jfkk9d7

QUESTIONS:

00:42:14 – Jack: Swimming Headphones

We mention a few headphones designed for swimming that could be worth a try.

– Shokz OpenSwim Pro: https://tinyurl.com/mtfra748

– H2O Sonar Underwater Headphones: https://tinyurl.com/5bwcxxnb

– JBL Endurance Peak 3: https://tinyurl.com/yt2pc27v

00:49:46 – Infinite Gary: Film Grain Synthesis

50″ LCD TV recommendations. And our take on Film Grain Synthesis.

– Samsung QN90D: https://tinyurl.com/2fe7nwuw

– TCL Q651G: https://tinyurl.com/5hx9k335

– Perlesmith Universal TV Stand: https://tinyurl.com/yc6a3cfr

– AV1 Film Grain Synthesis: https://tinyurl.com/yckfmdfj

01:06:21 – Eddie: Do IsoAcoustics Work?

What’s our take on the claims made by IsoAcoustics?

– Museum Putty: https://tinyurl.com/y5tmxa32

01:09:19 – Greg: Which 97″ OLED?

Would it be worth replacing a 98″ TCL with a 97″ LG OLED from a few years ago?

01:14:25 – Joe: Upmixing an Atmos Mix for Wides

Was our Zidoo talk last week a secret ad for Kaleidescape? And what is technically “lost” if you force an Atmos soundtrack to be output as 7.1 Dolby TrueHD and then apply a different upmixer to it?

01:29:32 – Spencer: Self-Powered Speaker Trio

You can get a pair of self-powered speakers with an eARC input. But what about a trio?

– Russound AVA 3.1 mini-AVR: https://tinyurl.com/yefvrz9z

– Audio Control Bijou 3100: https://tinyurl.com/damp4eu3

– SnapAV episode Mini 5.1: https://tinyurl.com/4jc9efka

01:33:54 – Ilango: Canadian In-Wall Surrounds

He already installed soundproof backer boxes. So which in-wall speakers should he buy in Canada? And precisely how high should he mount them?

– Paradigm P80-IW v2: https://tinyurl.com/3hsrdehw

01:43:08 – Stefan: Height, Wides & Brightness

His Surrounds are slightly elevated. Would they sound better if they were even higher? What should he do about Front Wides? And does projector brightness matter more than black level?

01:53:42 – David: Downsizing in Japan

We go through his AVRs, subwoofers, acoustic panels, and especially speakers and discuss which ones he should keep, how best to deploy them, and which ones to sell or recycle.

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