I am in constant development on the quest for ultimate immersion, 2 years ago I pivoted my focus from projection to walls, but as you know before they were rolled out the price blew up astronomically, I am doing the
California Wall Based Home Cinema of the future, it has proven to be a Gargantuan Task of Quixotic proportions, delayed by 1.5 years from original estimates based on a very handsome fee that was fixed, thus partially I needed the money until completion, but also I have a younger girlfriend that her movie tastes run towards the twilight, shades of Gray, and fast and furious. I need more intellectual stimuli than those provide.
Keeping those titles offline is comforting.
Then there is the contents immersive audio, the decision to go full blown on K was based on the audio quality of the Sony, Warner, Paramount Atmos mixes which populate my demo scripts, to me Kaleidescape is necessary to properly implement these High-End Systems , I only have 2 rooms in my condo showroom that need a player. Moving to this downtown Miami locale gave me 1 gig speeds to download.
I am very disappointed at the Immersive mixes from Disney, way too many stems being folded into objects, very few object pirouettes mixed because everything is so saturated by sounds simultaneously from every direction over saturated and you can tell these were mixed on qsc horns. I find that the mixes from Universal and Fox are generally underwhelming too when up mixed in neural x, house for peculiar children and x-men.1st class are exception, i need more research but that is the overall impression. That probably means that the majority of those mixes even if available in atmos would be generally weak in the Disney regard. Because good theatric atmos mixed released in DTS-HD in K contains sufficient object spectacle that was mixed down to 7.1 and thus can be retrieved spectacularly in neural-x. Still, there will be 20% native atmos that will sound good, but if a movie had a great theatrical atmos track, that spectacle can be retrieved in neural-x.
I have a 35k movie library at the store, titles purchased mainly seeking great demo scenes, I also have a similarly priced collection of every quadraphonic music ever recorded except classical, DVD-a and bluray multichannel titles were stored in the dv-700 changer. Since hacking mechanically an oppo i can now play those titles plus sacd iso too. Looking to morph the library to roon. so no need for the dv-700 and alto.
I will end up with my strato s 12, and another one, but i need more class a immersive audio demo content. Also i don't want low IQ titles on tap in case my date wants to put me through that pain.
So there it is, full disclosure!!