Eliminating the HDMI Cable as a Potential Culprit

The first potential culprit that comes to mind when it comes to signal issues is the HDMI cable itself. Let's just eliminate the HDMI cable as a potential culprit for now, because if we replace it with an ultra high-speed cable, such as the 48Gbps cable I use, and it keeps happening, then we need to figure out if this is a Sony A95L issue.

It could be because I've had some handshake problems with that TV. Ooh, which reminds me, make sure your A95L is running the latest software update that could also fix the problem. But it could be that the Nakamichi Dragon is dropping its handshake as well, which would be an issue for Nakamichi to fix. But hey, if there are any other Dragon owners out there watching right now, and I hope there are, cuz you guys fill up the comments, hop into the comments now and tell us what you know about this, maybe you've had this experience, maybe you fixed it. I'm sure together that we can get this ironed out.

TV Signal Issues: The Nakamichi Dragon

The Nakamichi Dragon is a popular microphone among podcasters and streamers, but it seems to have some issues with its handshake, which could be causing the dropouts in your TV signal. This is a known issue for some users, and it's not clear why it happens, but it's something that Nakamichi needs to address.

If you're experiencing similar issues with your microphone, there are a few things you can try to fix the problem. First, make sure that your Dragon is properly calibrated and adjusted for optimal sound quality. This may involve adjusting the gain levels or using different settings to find what works best for you.

Another option is to try using a different microphone, such as the Shure SM7B or the Rode NT-USB, which are both known for their high-quality sound and durability. However, keep in mind that these microphones may not have the same level of customization options as the Dragon, so you'll need to experiment with different settings to find what works best for your needs.

If none of these solutions work, it's possible that there's a hardware issue with your microphone or your equipment setup. In this case, it's best to contact Nakamichi customer support or visit their website for more information on how to troubleshoot and repair the issue.

Samsung 77in S89C TV: A Fine Choice for OLED Enthusiasts

If you're in the market for a new TV and want an OLED but don't want to pay QD-OLED prices, the Samsung 77in S89C is definitely worth considering. This TV uses LG's WR WRGB OLED panel, which is similar to the one used in the LG C3 OLED TV.

However, it's essential to note that the S89C does not use LG's brighter MLA OLED panel like the LG G3. Instead, it gets Samsung's treatment, including Samsung's processing of the Smart TV interface and a few other Samsung-exclusive features like Q Symphony sound for coordination with a Samsung soundbar as well as object tracking sound processing.

You also get Samsung's anti-glare treatment and Samsung's brand of gaming Hub, which makes this TV more than just an LG C3 in different packaging. It's truly a Samsung TV, so if you want a Samsung and you want an OLED but don't want to pay QD-OLED prices, the S89C is the way to go.

Just be aware that you're not getting QD OLED, which could be a drawback for some users. However, this may not be a concern for many people who simply want a high-quality OLED TV without breaking the bank.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enon today's episode of you asked TVs over the fireplace yay or nay Sonos versus Amazon Google  and Apple speakers 3D oleds Soundbar dropouts and what even is the Samsung S89C welcome back  everyone I'm KB Dennison and this is you asked the show where I answer questions that you asked  in hopes that I can help you and others who have the same Tech questions if you've got a question  you'd like to see answered on the show please send it to youasked@digitaltrends.com and I'll  do my best to get it answered now normally this is where I dive straight into the first question but  before I do I just have to take a moment to thank all of you out there for making this show such a  success I mean no lie I am regularly shocked at how many views this show has been getting and  the comments have been awesome it motivates me to make this show better better and better with each  episode and along those lines I have a request and an apology for you first I'd like to do a version  of this show for later this month I'm thinking December 24th specifically around solving tech  problems that tend to come up around the holidays right maybe it's a tech related thing you run into  every time you visit your family or you can think of times when you wish you had some help with tech  issues related to gifts that you gave or received that that kind of thing back in the day it could  have been how to fix the blinking clock on your VCR or how to connect your DVD player or a simple  PSA to buy a lot of batteries because you know those kids toys aren't going to come with what  you need and the last thing you want is a sad kid who can't play with their new toy that kind  of stuff if something comes to mind please send it to youasked@digitaltrends.com and put holiday  special in the subject line so I can more easily filter them thanks in advance I'm already looking  forward to it now for a quick apology that I'll frontload with some thanks in the last episode  of you asked we talked about color bit depth and chroma subsampling it was kind of deep and  y'all liked it and sent some really encouraging comments so thanks again for those but I messed  up I said that 4K 120 with 10bit color and 4.4.4 chroma would require trade-offs which implied that  HDMI 2.1 couldn't handle that much bandwidth and that is not correct according to this bandwidth  calculator from merido it is not only possible but it's possible without display stream compression  so my apologies for that error I promise to do better okay now let's dive into it and we'll start  with a question from kartique kanana who writes I'm buying an apartment where the only place to  mount a TV is over the fireplace I absolutely hate the idea of mounting an LG G3 over a fireplace but  was wondering if you had any thoughts about the merits of mounting it with a MantelMount to avoid  the inevitable next strain ooh I have thoughts and I'm happy to share them my stance on the whole TV  over fireplace thing has definitely evolved a bit over the years I wrote this article years ago and  boy did I get Rak over the coals now for those who don't know here are the three main reasons  it's a bad idea one it's literally a pain in the neck if you can't get the TV down closer  to eye level you will end up just slightly craning your neck just enough that it can actually cause  long-term discomfort or pain I actually consulted experts about that number two the viewing angle of  most LCD TVs is such that even if you angle the TV down toward where you sit you will not get all of  the picture quality that you paid for and three the Heat and sometimes smoke if your fireplace  and home are not properly ventilated can be bad for your TV both on the short term and the long  term Heat and electronics do not mix however and this is a really important part what experts like  me often gloss over while we're sitting on our high horse is that over the fireplace is often  the only place you can fit a TV in the room due to the room's layout I don't know what modern  home builds are looking like these days because it's been a while since I went home shopping but  for decades it was extremely common especially with so-called great room concepts to design  the room so that the only wall you can place TV on has a fireplace right smack in the middle of  it other walls are too short or you can't place your seating across from any of the other spaces  so lots of folks just really don't have a choice other than to have a completely separate TV room  and just not have a TV in the main room and that's just not that's not a solution sometimes you have  to or need to mount your TV over the fireplace and if that's the case for you I would highly  recommend using an articulating drop- down wall mount like this one from MantelMount not sponsored  that lets you bring the TV down closer to eye level and this one in particular has a sensor  built into it to indicate if the TV is getting too hot you can even get motorized versions of  these mounts so that when you turn on your TV it just drops down automatically this way you  protect your neck your eyes and your investment MantelMount is not the only game in town though  there are other manufacturers like uh sis for example that make mounts just like this but I  am a fan of MantelMount s products and give them an enthusiastic thumbs up we'll put a link down  in the description for the mm700 we showed you in this video in case you want to snatch one up and  help the channel out at the same time the second question today also comes from kartique it's a  twofer cartique wrote do you have any thoughts about the merits of adding in sealing Sono  speakers versus just spreading around a few Wi-Fi based speakers say homepod minis which are less  obtrusive around the house I really like the idea of the former but products like Sonos in ceiling  speakers are expensive plus little unwieldly given the number of amps needed to spread the speakers  around the house as you can tell I'm not a huge audio file but admire the aesthetic Advantage  okay so first thing I want to call out is that Sonos in sealing speakers are just passive in  sealing speakers right you could just really use any brand of quality in ceiling speakers and many  of them would cost a lot less than Sonos or sonets Sonos in ceiling speakers don't have built-in amps  or built-in Wi-Fi that make them so simple that you can just install them run the Sonos  app and be done with it as you pointed out in your question you'll have to have other Sonos equipment  the Sonos amps are very convenient because they bring Sonos Simplicity to the amplification that  you need so less equipment uh but that ramps up the cost too and this is true for any in sealing  speaker setup if you're lucky the speaker wires were run throughout the house and routed back  to one central location when the house was built so all you have to do is install the in sealing  speakers where they need to go and then install the Sonos and amp stuff in the closet where the  other end of the speaker wire is and just get it all connected now I make that sound simple  but it's kind of involved and frankly I would recommend an installer to do that work which adds  even more to the cost however if you're trying to retrofit a house that didn't have that Cl3 in wall  rated wire run when it was built you definitely need an installer and you're looking at an even  more expensive proposition using Wi-Fi enabled smart speakers may not be as stealthy but it's  going to be way less expensive and as a bonus they can sometimes sound a little bit better you could  buy Sonos era 100 speakers or you could get any number of speakers that support Amazon you know  who or Google home and still have a distributed a audio system that works awesome where it gets  trickier is integrating your TV sound with these speakers if you wanted your in sealing speakers  to not just handle music and podcasts and such but to also playback what you're watching on your TV  that's going to be a lot easier with a Sono setup than it will be with Amazon Google or Apple smart  speakers though it can be done anyway for cost and convenience's sake I say go with practical  smart speakers but if you're just really into the idea of doing the in seiling speaker thing  I mean go for it I would just recommend hiring a pro and be prepared to crack open your wallet  quite a bit it might be worth it if you're going to be in the home for a long time but I would say  if you're thinking about moving anytime soon you know in the next 5 years or less I don't  think you're adding to the value of the home by doing this elaborate system these kind of  things often go unused or get ripped out by new owners according to the installers that I talked  to Tom Swift from water F Ireland says hi Caleb with your vast Connections in the digital world  and in particular TVs could you tell me is there anywhere in the world manufacturers still make 3D  oleds I heard they were great but very expensive at the time for me to buy but I think it would  be my ultimate TV okay so first off y'all you don't have to butter me up the way Tom here is  doing but I got to say it doesn't hurt anyway thanks for the kind words Tom I do appreciate  it however I'm afraid the bad news is that no as far as I'm aware nobody is making a 3D OLED or any  other 3D TV for that matter and they don't have any plans to do so I understand that some folks  really enjoyed 3D TVs at home and in fact I know of some folks who won't upgrade their current TV  because they'll lose the 3D when they do but 3D was a massive failure for TV manufacturers  it was either expensive to do at high quality or the cheap cheaper lowquality implementation  disappointed viewers back when I first started reviewing TVs actually you either got active  shutter glasses that would shut off your vision in one eye while passing light through the other eye  and that caused both flicker as well as dimming of the TV a lot like black frame insertion does  now it wasn't great plus the glasses ate batteries for breakfast or they needed constant recharging  the other issue with 3D was that the resolution of the movie was essentially getting cut in half  because the TV had to show alternating frames to achieve the 3D effect anyway TV brands are aware  that there are some die hard 3D fans out there they they hear you but they are not going back  to the old way so until glasses-free 3D can be done on the cheap and produced at scale I'm afraid  we'll have to reserve 3D As a treat that we get at the cinema I'm sorry I don't have better news on  that front but if it's any consolation you are far from being the first or only person that brought  this up Scott Baker writes my new Sony 77in A95L is connected to a Nakamichi Dragon Soundbar and  it will intermittently switch back and forth from external speaker to internal TV speakers and then  back again is there any way to fix this in the settings there's no software switch in the sound  settings menu to select external only is this a bug yeah Scott uh that sucks and I'm sorry  for that frustrating situation first off in the A95L menu if you click the settings cog on the  remote then the settings cog icon then down to audio output you should be able to select either  speakers or audio system if you have audio system selected and you're getting these dropouts it's  because the TV is seeing the audio system your Dragon disappear now the question is is that the  TV's issue is it the Nakamichi Dragons issue or is it an HDMI cable issue I would buy a highquality  Ultra high-speed HDMI cable and just eliminate the HDMI cable as a potential culprit look if  it's not the HDMI cable you could always return it uh but that's because any signal issues due to the  cable would definitely cause the dropouts if you replace the cable with an ultra high-speed cable  as I suggest and it keeps happening well then we need to figure out if this is a Sony A95L Issue  and it could be because I've had some handshake problems with that TV ooh which reminds me make  sure your A95L is running the latest software update that could also fix the problem but it  could be that the Nakamichi dragon is dropping its handshake as well which would be an issue for  Nakamichi to fix but hey if there are any other Dragon owners out there watching right now and I  hope there are cuz you guys fill up the comments hop into the comments now and tell us what you  know about this maybe you've had this experience maybe you fixed it I'm sure together that we can  get this ironed out uh so this literally just did this just came in while we were recording  this episode Kevin B writes I have a few questions about Samsung 77in S89C it seems to be an S90C but  only sold at Best Buy I really can't find the differences between these TVs and the S89C is a  crazy good $2,000 right now down from $3600 I am so glad that this question came in I'm knew this was  going to be an issue and here it is also I think this is timely with the holiday shopping season  so let's get into it most of us Tech journalists who cover TVs felt like the S89C, A didn't make a  ton of sense but worse, B was going to create a lot of confusion and here we are so here's the deal on  the S89C it is not just a Best Buy exclusive S90C unlike the Samsung S90C and the S95C which use QD  OLED panels made by Samsung display the S89C uses an LG WR WRGB OLED panel now if I were to try to  draw an equivalent I'd say it's a lot like the LG C3 OLED TV and that it does not have LG's brighter  MLA OLED panel like the LG G3 does however as we have discussed on this channel many times  the panel is not nearly as important as what is done with it and in this case the S89C though it  does use an lgw RGB OLED panel will get Samsung's treatment which includes Samsung's processing the  Samsung tis in Smart TV interface and a few other Samsung only ecosystem stuff like Q Symphony sound  for coordination with a Samsung soundbar as well as object tracking Sound Processing you  also get Samsung solar rechargeable remote control Samsung's anti-glare treatment and Samsung's brand  of gaming Hub so it really isn't just an LG C3 in a different rapper it's very much a Samsung  TV so I guess the main message I want to convey here is that the S89C though I have not reviewed  it is no doubt a very fine tv indeed and very much worth purchasing if you want a Samsung  and you want an OLED but you don't want to pay QD OLED prices well then the S89C is definitely  the way to go just be very aware that you're not getting QD OLED and that's fine a lot of  folks don't need QD OLED I just don't want there to be any confusion on this issue so there you  go thanks as always for watching everyone don't forget to drop your comments down below toss us  a like And subscribe if you dig this show and want to see more I'll see you on the next one  you asked goes out 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