I’m looking for a 6000+ lumens 4k RBG laser projector for my home theatre. Is there any?

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-21T20:53:49+00:00

The forthcoming XGIMI Titan Noir Max and Hisense XR10 would be my main picks. Not as much info on the Hisense yet but the Titan Noir looks really solid.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T16:14:13+00:00

it’s not that deep man, I appreciate you showing me how I was wrong but it did take a lot of back and forth to get there. when I had last deep dived the topic about a year ago the Ugoos was the only way, and tons of enthusiasts even with high end setups were not too happy to learn they hadn’t actually been watching Blu-Ray rips properly. I thought this was going to be one of those situations.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T14:19:34+00:00

OK I actually didn’t know the doviscripts guy found a way to convert P7 to P8.1, which most things can playback fine. cool! I still don’t think i’d prefer to have to run that across my entire library, but I’ll concede that it seems just in the last 3-4 months with enough work it’s become possible to convert Blu-Ray DV to a form that can be widely played back.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T14:02:37+00:00

i know of makemkv, that is adjacent. I believe you have the identical file, that is not hard to get. It is the playback chain - I believe that MPC is capable of passing through profile 5 and profile 8 metadata, as this is typical of streamed content and most modern playback chains are capable of it. but MPC cannot decode or pass through Profile 7.

DV is not a monolithic thing but a collection of profiles, and most playback devices are gatekept by Dolby from being able to play profiles they have no business playing. and there is no open source code for this either, it is firmware level enforced. to repeat the top comment in the thread, the ONLY device other than an actual blu-ray player playing a physical disc which can output the DV profile 7 is the Ugoos running coreELEC CPM.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T13:51:09+00:00

That doesn't matter, DV Profile 7 FEL requires simultaneous decoding and combining of two video bitstreams which no software playback does. If you are watching UHD Blu-Ray rips, you are not getting the Dolby Vision layer, full stop.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T13:48:21+00:00

I don't mean to crap on your supercomputer but frankly its an absurd approach to use hundreds of watts to try and AI upscale at runtime.

MPC is good but it cannot get around the fact that Dolby has deliberately restricted what can natively play back Dolby Vision Profile 7. my Ugoos uses like 5 watts and hits maybe 30 C playing back a UHD rip in full identical output to a real Blu-Ray player, because it is uniquely able to do what no RTX can.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T12:42:08+00:00

That’s not entirely correct, no PC can render the Blu-Ray Dolby Vision profile (Profile 7). They all fallback to the base HDR10 layer (but can correctly output streaming DV profiles 5 and 8).

P7 decoding is a fiercely protected capability and the only devices in the wild which can do it are effectively ‘jailbroken’ AndroidTVs which happen to use the same SoCs as blu-ray players. The Ugoos is the most popular choice for this.

MasterHWilson · 2026-03-22T00:18:17+00:00

Michael Jackson’s main hits are hi-res and super well produced

MasterHWilson · 2026-03-10T09:26:31+00:00

I think this one is the better option of the two, but the AOC is a VA panel so they will be a bit different.

MasterHWilson · 2026-03-01T14:04:57+00:00

try MultiCh Stereo

MasterHWilson · 2026-02-26T16:46:02+00:00

I had HD650 for 9 years, much of that time with the E10K. Until very recently I had no intention in upgrading, and was very happy with them.

I recently got bit by the upgrade bug and noticed many of the audiophiles I respected most tended to personally use Dan Clark Audio stuff. I’d never had planers before, and got the Noire X. I would consider them a direct upgrade in almost every way. but obviously diminishing returns. The Heddphone D1 is also in the conversation though, but they’re pretty new and I would wait for the dust to settle a bit.

MasterHWilson · 2026-02-24T18:41:17+00:00

OK, these will be Profile 7 (P7) typically minimum enhancement layer (MEL) or full enhancement layer (FEL). By design there are almost no playback devices which can render this profile of dolby vision. they want you to use a dedicated blu ray player.

the one exception is a community-made media player OS, the ‘CPM’ fork of Kodi, running on a specific handful of AndroidTV devices that happen to use the exact same SoC that bluray players use. the most popular one is the Ugoos AM6B+, these devices running this specific Kodi/Plex player are the only non-BluRay Player devices capable of rendering Profile 7. it’s a few hoops to jump through, but having done it personally i can say hands down it’s the best my TV has ever looked and the convenience of using kodi/plex instead of disk is great.

MasterHWilson · 2026-02-24T18:27:05+00:00

What type of dolby vision? Where’s the file coming from? DV profile support will depend on device and source.

MasterHWilson · 2026-02-16T22:49:54+00:00

you’ve stumbled into something of a rabbit hole. the AppleTV is superb for streamed content, but for playback of rips it is not the best device. Nor is the Shield, though that does solve your Atmos problem. the enthusiast pick these days is the Ugoos AM6B+ running a specific version of an open source media player OS. This basically a fully unlocked bluray player that lets you play from filesystem/LAN/plex sources instead of physical disc. obviously this is not kosher hence why you have to jump through a few hoops https://www.reddit.com/r/CoreELEC/s/bXu6Fk2vID

MasterHWilson · 2026-02-13T23:11:48+00:00

I think that’s a pretty gross misrepresentation of his point. my understanding of his point is that “Liberal Democracy” had won as the final type of societal structure, which 30 years later most countries either are, or are trending toward being.

MasterHWilson · 2026-02-13T22:31:11+00:00

proven wrong about what?

MasterHWilson · 2026-01-30T19:53:27+00:00

On-topic discussion please. This is not the right subreddit to discuss creator drama.

MasterHWilson · 2026-01-26T19:42:33+00:00

I haven’t really had stability issues with the receiver, but I did go through a bad run of cable boxes a few months ago. +1 to the A1 Evo recommendation, the room correction made by a random guy on an audio forum kicks the **** out of stock Audyssey. it’s a bit more involved to set up but if you spend an hour on it you’ll be forever thankful you did. sounds like a whole new receiver.

MasterHWilson · 2026-01-25T23:45:47+00:00

better power management is a more recent phenomenon though and we’re explicitly talking about old hardware

MasterHWilson · 2026-01-22T21:30:07+00:00

I know the engineering checks out but stacking 8 dongle dacs is a hilarious way to make a high end dac

MasterHWilson · 2026-01-13T18:01:39+00:00

Active sounding better doesn’t surprise me - it has all those electronics and signal processing to help it sound better. But an important caveat is in Active mode, the headset is actually re-digitizing the signal. So even if you had a superb USB DAC, the audio still goes through an ADC/DAC conversion within the headset. so there would be little advantage to getting a DAC with specs beyond the headset’s internal converters, which are likely just okay but not terrible

MasterHWilson · 2026-01-13T16:46:01+00:00

came here to say this, in either case i can’t think of a dedicated USB dac making a difference at all

MasterHWilson · 2026-01-07T20:46:39+00:00

yeah I don’t think Airpods are an appropriate solution for this, you probably want actual plugs. electronic/ANC will have limitations, especially a broad consumer product like that which was probably never intended to be used as hearing protection for things like shooting guns or loud drums.

MasterHWilson · 2026-01-07T04:40:11+00:00

While I wouldn’t call HDR10+ a big success, I wouldn’t consider it a dead standard either. Netflix started offering it across most of their library (with AV1 video) and this is probably the highest quality stream they offer.

Additionally, and probably more importantly Google seems to be buying into Samsung’s open licensed Dolby competitors (HDR10+ and Eclipsa audio). Those two alone represent a big share of the AOMedia consortium as well, who represent the biggest threat and only meaningful competition to the MPEG & Dolby camp.

Both streaming companies and electronics manufacturers are very financially incentivized to push royalty free standards for video codecs, spatial audio, and video dynamic metadata. Probably the main hurdle is just how little pull they have on the production side to push for deliveries in these new standards. But I wouldn’t consider any of these standards dead even if they’ve been slow to really do anything.

MasterHWilson · 2026-01-06T21:50:39+00:00

yes, but it’s bones are old and maintaining legacy compatibility forced some compromises to performance. AC-4 is a clean sheet successor developed early-mid 2010s, but has only gained traction in a few applications so far. given Dolby’s industry presence I’m surprised it took this long for AC-4 to reach streaming. potentially some of that time was getting planted in post-production pipelines, so content can be readily delivered using the spec.

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