Pemalite said:
Clearly you are an individual with taste and quality. :P
You would be surprised... Especially in the 8th gen. - Call of Duty even uses uncompressed audio these days.
I live across the road to a fire station/work. - If people don't like noise... Kinda the stupidest place to live. |
The thing with good quality stand alone speakers is that they sound great at any volume. Head phones always place the sound in my head, it sounds much better if the sound has some room to breathe. My big open living room with vaulted ceiling and wood all around sounds much better than my dedicated home theater which is a square box room with concrete on 2 sides and concrete under the wood floor. Speakers are only half of the equation, the room plays as big a part in sound quality.
That said, I rarely get to use it at full volume. Yet when I'm home alone, movie time, 5.1 linear PCM, turn it up and let it wash over me. Plus some games need that subwoofer, thumper isn't thumper without it. No use playing with headphones in VR when there's no real bass.
HDMI 2.0 is a pain though. My receiver only passes through 1.4, so it's either uncompressed sound or 4K picture. Bad design, why can't it handle sound and picture differently. By the time I upgrade my amp there will probably be a newer incompatible HDMI on the horizon... I have no clue why ARC can't do linear PCM either. The cables are not directional and it's only using it one way when I need ARC. I guess the controllers are one way. Bad design.
Anyway, if games use uncompressed audio nowadays, no wonder they are huge!
