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Gordon, i think you eloquently expressed the feelings of a lot of old timers on the forum. I am not posting near as much lately, either. For a lot of the same reasons you expressed.

Then...

So when is the installer scheduled to show up at your house? :ROFL: I just may have to come up to Indiana for my demo.

Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. I am voicing some rather strong opinions, I know. But I also realize that I have yet to actually observe the new tech with my own eyes and only after doing so will I be...

Generally speaking, it is advisable to use an amp that doubles its output power with every halving of impedance when driving electrostatic speakers. This amp doesn't do that. So I wouldn't advise...

Exactly. So you would need the screen to be about five feet or more from the front wall, requiring a pretty big room. Heck, if you had a 4k projector system, you could have a wall-to-wall screen...

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

To get any benefit from the increased resolution, the pictures would have to be taken with a 36 megapixel or greater camera. This is medium format territory. We are just now getting to the point...

Mounting the Stage vertically would not work, except in the sweet spot, because of the dispersion of the panel. This is why I suggested stacking them. However, using a regular ML speaker as a...

It would be difficult to do it right (although I am sure Jonfo could figure it out), but I wonder how stacking Stages would work to resolve the bowtie effect. Stacking maybe 3 of them together as a...

Bingo! The two go hand in hand. The tech is the same: 4k resolution vs. 1080p (2k). You cannot broadcast native 4k if you don't have 4k cameras taking the video, and some way to get that content...

There is an innersound amp in the forum classifieds right now for a really good price. It would be a perfect stereo amp for the front two main channels, and then you could use your Denon for the...

I don't think so. If it has, they fail to mention it in any of their marketing materials. The writeup on the crossover is identical to the one for the Stage. The crossover points certainly haven't...

Honestly, I think you are fooling yourself a bit. Other than the tweeter, the Stage X is identical to the Stage. You may be getting slightly more silky highs due to the more appropriate tweeter,...

Makes sense. If you are into the whole 3d thing, it may make sense to upgrade. That is another technology that I have passed on. Just looks too fake to me and distracts from my enjoyment of the...

Well that makes a lot of sense for your application, then. For the average consumer, though, I don't see any advantage to buying a TV set with the increased resolution, unless of course it also...

Thanks for chiming in, JonFo. I was hoping to get your input. I do find it interesting that you would have to sit about 8' from your screen to get the full benefit of 4K. From the chart above, it...

Exactly. For me, the other potential improvements from OLED are much more important. Things like color, contrast ratio, and so forth. I just don't expect to see any benefits from the increased...

The argument is that I don't see any benefit to myself (even with a 10' diagonal projection screen), or to most consumers, by upgrading from BluRay to 4K. The science seems to support that argument....

Good point, timm. And I guess the response to that is that you can just download a movie from netflix or amazon to watch it once, as was argued above. But the technology fails in that regard as...

I'm pretty sure I already have. If there is no additional benefit to the resolution advance and it requires costly equipment upgrades, the majority of consumers aren't going to be interested in it. ...

Thanks for your input, even if it lacks any rational explanation to support it. I think the clear answer for 99% of consumers will be: no, we don't.

But don't just take my word for it:

Why 4K TVs are Stupid

Why 4k TVs are Stupid (Still)

The great UHD 4K TV scam

There are plenty of others. Apparently, I'm not the only grumpy old man...

Actually, if you had read my previous posts, you would have seen that I have advocated A/B/X testing as a good and valid method of testing for audio differences. Just not the end-all be-all that...

My post questioned the validity of and need for the technology and asked for opinions. And looked at it from a critical perspective, knowing Sony's history. Having just read about it today for the...

Oh, wait, this has already been done. Sony, in their marketing material for the 4K cinema experience, shows us a A/B study between 2k and 4k on a 20' screen. 60% of respondents (barely more than...