I thank him twice already.
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Comparison of Dirac Live Bass Control (DLBC) and Dirac ART for all known AVRs/Processors
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And what have we learned?I thank him twice already.
I like your idea of sweep determining range of support and I was kind of surprised that it wasn't in the original implementation. I am not confident that I am smart enough to get it right!Agreed. It needs to be simple interface with separate advanced settings screen. Sweep determines range of support for all speakers based on their extension with possibility to manually adjust. Level slider determines level of support for all speakers, pairs or individual speakers. Most importantly, it should have overall bass level setting as people actually have different tastes in bass levels and there is really no such thing as reference. Calibrated reference obviously exists, but varied bass levels and ranges in the mixes ideally require adjustments to calibrated level based on individual preferences. ART does everything else and all speakers support all speakers. Range needs to be at least 10hz to whatever they manage to do above 150hz. Sure some people will argue that it needs to be 5hz up
Advanced screen, well should have more than the above, including slopes to phase in/out the support from the individual speakers.
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phoenixdogfan
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It seems to me like Dirac ART is trying to do some of the things we see with regard to bass directivity that we see in Cardoid monitors like the D&D's, Kii's, and Mesanovics. Perhaps not doing it in the same direct way the cardioids cancel the back wave of bass response, but nonetheless attempting to use the sound of other full range speakers to null out the room reflections of frequencies under 500 hz or so.
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PRIMARE SP35 Prisma processor preamplifier
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- 6 HDMI 2.1 inputs
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- Dirac Live ART DSP capabilities
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Has anyone heard any news or rumours of when an affordable ART enabled product will be available?
Nope, most of us are waiting for exactly that!
Many of us have purchased Denon AVR's on the basis that they are good performing, affordable, and should be upgradeable to ART once it is released (a number of people on ASR are in the Beta test program, and have ART working on these AVR's)
The upper models from Onkyo/Integra should also be upgradeable in a similar manner, but the manufacturer hasn't confirmed it.
The Monoprice HPT1 is similarly capable....
I expect when the dam breaks, we will be flooded with ART capable devices.... right now the trickle is limited to StormAudio
It's been so annoying to expect ART on Denon/Marantz for so long... now what I fear the most is them locking it behind a new AVRs series...
This would be great news - especially if 16 channels don't include 4 subs. Otherwise 12 remaining channels are really 11 (7.5.4), so might not overwhelm the people looking to spend that kind of money.
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While past performance does not provide accurate outlook into the future, based on the time it took to get nowhere, chances seem quite high that somewhere remains destination unknown.
That's always on the table. After all, no one has an infinite R&D budget!
It's already been released, just on very expensive equipment.
If a tree fell in the forest but no one saw it, did it really fall?
