I don’t place my speakers in the right spots, but luckily (like Sonos and others) room correction software really helps with this. Especially after A1Evo.

Soundbars are a great solution really, I never understood the negativity towards them. It’s all I recommend to my friends as I know they are unable to comprehend what a receiver is and then what speakers to get and let’s not go into subs.

Does this mean review/benchmarking sites need to reevaluate all chips after os updates or at least publish the versions used while testing?

What’s the keyboard in the back?

That’s true as well. I’m using an older 7th gen Intel for remuxing, but do software AV1 encodes which take like 11 hours lol

Good move.

I find software reencoding/remux instead of doing it on the fly is easier for my brain to manage over alignment of the hardware stars.

I have this all the time when I’m on my mullvald vpn. Makes me want to not use it half the time :(