I collected some ideas of using the nice digital interface of Minidsk UDIO-8 and JRiver Media Center
Multichannel digital AV player PC recipy is here:
- Take a great video player of JRiver
https://jriver.com/video.html " JRiver Media Center offers the highest quality video available. And it plays everything, without any setup required."
- Take digital multichannel 7.1 interface UDIO-8 to deliver lossless sound to active speakers
- home theater speaker distances need to be adjusted in jriver media player like in AV receivers
- as a new feature into JRiver there is need to create a parameter table into JRiver to set the (digital) speaker distances / latencies for each listening channel
- measuring of speaker distances from listening position could be done with a feature into REW measurement software with UMIK mic that is in listening position on a mic stand
https://www.minidsp.com/applications/acoustic-measurements/umik-1-setup-with-rewThen we have created a digital JRiver Media Center AV player running on windooze linux or mac and there is digital signaling support into active home theater speakers.
Room correction is done with "plugins" into the digital signal path of JRiver or that is inbuilt in the active speakers that adapt into listening position (example Genelec GLM concept )
Then there is no need to buy fancy fully digital av receivers because we just use standard PC hardware and existing operating system functionalities and great MC application.
(Embedding the channel latency parameters into ALSA sound card driver input would also solve the player speaker distances topic.)
JRiver team, could you consider implementing the channel distance /latency handling with parameter table into MC 2x ? to enable the MC MCH player fully digital E2E concept over USB ?