Upgrading Anthem AVM 50

I just picked up an AVM 50 for a song on ebay and I wan to talk about why it's still current.



The image above is for the 50v, but you get the idea. 

The AVM 50 lacks Dolby Atmos and 4K support, but if you are a hard core 5.1 guy, this may not matter to you at all.

Let's discuss.

A couple of months ago I picked up a 55" LG OLED TV for under a grand during a holiday sale, but prices have gone up:


LG 55" OLED TV


This TV has several nifty features built in:

• 4 x 4k HDMI inputs
• Optical DD 5.1 output
• HDMI ARC - Sadly not usable here. 

The TV can do all the HDMI switching I need. Plus, it outputs Dolby Digital 5.1 via Toslink.

Further, my Oppo 103 can output multichannel LPCM! It has built in TrueHD and DTS Master audio decoding, and can feed the decoded Dolby/DTS signals directly to the AVM 50 via the HDMI inputs. Another requirement here is that the Oppo has dual HDMI outputs. One goes to the TV, the other to the processor, allowing the Oppo's upscaling to work.




What the Anthem 50 lacks is true room correction, which can be added via a miniDSP multi-channel EQ.

Personally I only EQ the center and subwoofer.

Anyway, point is, you can save yourself a mint if you don't need HDMI switching, and are going to stick to 5.1.

If you must have room correction, step up to the 50v.