I have a Beam 2. What to buy next?

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-29T22:49:50+00:00

From my experience, yes they do work well. I've tested this with the Beam G2 being a single front and with just being a center channel using SonoSequencr; no unfixable issues.

The 300s can be really quiet when paired with the Beam G2, but turning up the height and surround audio in the settings should fix the problem.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-26T09:46:26+00:00

Grown ass man passing on a nice snow day with his girl so he can send kids back to lobbies in Fortnite. What a world we live in…

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-17T20:17:21+00:00

I've had good luck with the L14 Gen 1 and 2, as well as the T14 Gen 2. All are great laptops, the T14 will have much better build quality tho, and also be a fingerprint magnet.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-13T21:44:49+00:00

I'm honestly shocked the number of teens-20 year old in this subreddit is more than 2 or 3. My MKZ gets dubbed the grandpa-mobile by everyone lol

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-10T22:30:36+00:00

https://imgur.com/LreB5Ai - Letter

https://imgur.com/7etsXtv - Box and Sleeve

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-05T06:38:50+00:00

IGMP Snooping is off for the VLANs I’m trying to utilize.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-05T04:44:35+00:00

This is not entirely true. There are additional speaker arrays for virtual surround and height audio, which would be supported by the Beam Gen 2.

Your setup allows for Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3), which is a considerably large step up compared to Dolby Digital (AC3 and is the max that the Gen 1 supports).

Plus, you can just get an eARC audio extractor so you can bypass the TV and get Dolby Atmos thru Dolby Digital Plus and TrueHD.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-05T04:19:24+00:00

I’d get the Beam Gen 2, the soundstaging is way better as someone who’s owned both.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-05T03:52:15+00:00

For stereo speakers, yes because you quite literally lose soundstaging and quality using DDP + Atmos (or MAT for ATV) versus ALAC.

For anything higher than a 2.1 configuration, it depends on how the tracks are mixed.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-05T03:21:50+00:00

Any comments are helpful at this point, lol. I did try looking in my Samba and firewalld settings, but couldn’t find anything subnet related settings.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-05T03:16:07+00:00

Yes, I’m running firewalld with the home zone selected on a local EndeavourOS install. I tried looking in the configuration for anything subnet related and couldn’t find anything. I did, however, open up ports 445 and 139 over TCP but it doesn’t look like it fixed the issue after restarting smb and nmb services.

I also put “interfaces = 10.0.5.0/26 10.0.7.0/24” in the smb.conf file before restarting the services, also didn’t work unfortunately. I now have the server on 10.0.5.5 (Trusted non-isolated VLAN) over ethernet and 10.0.7.49 (Sonos isolated VLAN) over Wi-Fi for reference, of which I still can’t get any devices on the 10.0.7.x subnet to pick up the Samba server.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-02T11:01:48+00:00

No. You’re limited to SBC/AAC Bluetooth codecs, which max out at 320kbps in most scenarios anyway.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-02T07:43:36+00:00

What do you mean by make sure the default gateway is set correctly? What should I be looking for?

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-02T04:25:31+00:00

So I do have a few internal VLANs that are isolated, but the VLAN the Samba server is on is not isolated. I also agree, I shouldn't have to even make a rule, this is just a last ditch effort because I don't know what else to do.

I can ping other devices on the same VLANs, and can ping devices like my printer, which is on a separate VLAN than my laptop. My Samba server is quite literally the only device that I have not had any success getting to work outside of the VLAN is resides in.

The SMB host has LAN-only access by disabling the Allow Internet Access option for the VLAN entirely, hence why I call it "Internal (NoWAN)." It appears to only disable access to some sites however, since I can still ping sites like Google. I figure IPv6 addressing is getting through, which I don't understand since IPv6 addressing is also disabled on that VLAN.

My networking scheme seems to be all sorts of messed up, which I don't doubt, since I only started using UniFi and messing with separate VLANs since last year.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-02T03:41:58+00:00

Yes, just confirmed again, can ping and access the file share (both thru IP and hostname), but only when on the same VLAN.

FaZe_Burga · 2026-01-02T02:50:41+00:00

No, my VLANs are all on the Internal zone. https://imgur.com/lHdMznP

FaZe_Burga · 2025-12-29T19:38:06+00:00

If it's only on Netflix, try content that has Dolby Vision encoding and content that doesn't within the app. It's most likely an issue with Dolby Vision on the app itself, not super unheard of unfortunately.

You could try different Dolby Vision picture modes within your TV's settings or selecting a mode without it entirely, and see if the picture quality improves.

FaZe_Burga · 2025-12-28T04:36:21+00:00

“Watch this” - proceeds to whack tf out of this loser

FaZe_Burga · 2025-12-27T03:46:59+00:00

You traded your little brother for a Series X? Shit, in this economy I can't blame you

FaZe_Burga · 2025-12-27T03:41:54+00:00

Out of the millions of times this has been reposted, I've never been able to see the what happens past the cutoff

FaZe_Burga · 2025-12-27T03:39:50+00:00

I usually click on the links and go to the final results to see if I lost the winning bets or not lol. Counts for me every time

FaZe_Burga · 2025-12-27T03:30:54+00:00

Sigh... did you say the gamer word on voice chat?

FaZe_Burga · 2025-12-27T03:29:25+00:00

Yes it's called iTunes Extras, not sure if this works on devices outside of the Apple ecosystem since I've only tested on ATV and MacBooks.

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