Golden Earring wrote: > So you can acoustically treat your listening space to your heart's > content, or use complex DSP software in an attempt to convert it into an > anechoic chamber, but the only effect will be to impress occasional > visitors who are not used to your room's acoustic. Really the only > sensible use of that stuff is in a recording studio so that the recorded > end product has no unusual sonic signature when compared to your other > programme material. OR to stop your neighbours banging on your walls > quite so often if they are getting a lot of low frequency resonance > after your room boundary has stopped all the HF & even MF stuff getting > through. :D >
I've dipped into this conversation from time to time and thought I would comment on this. That characterization of Digital Room Correction (if that is what you were referring to) is extremely misleading. Of course, it won't appeal to everyone but it can make a real and very worthwhile difference. The aim has nothing at all to do with anechoic chambers or impressing visitors - but to better represent the music in less than ideal rooms with domestic constraints. But the how the correction filters are generated is absolutely critical to the outcome and can make the difference between something pretty bad and a result that is a great enhancement and a pleasure to listen to. As a very narrow example, if you take Acourate (a well regarded program used to generate correction filters) it aims not to take into account room reflections by (as a default) only using the first 15ms of the scanned sound in its calculations. Some people find benefits in reducing this further to, say, 8ms. No attempt to create an anechoic chamber effect there. The aim is to improve the smoothness of the perceived frequency and phase response in a wholly beneficial way and there are very real benefits, especially in the bass and lower mid areas which can be notoriously and frustratingly "lumpy". (I use the InguzDRC plugin with correction filters generated by Acourate.) Touch, Meridian G92, Meridian G55, PMC OB1i speakers, HP Proliant Microserver/Ubuntu, PC/Windows 7, iPad 4, iPeng, Squeezepad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107946 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
