mhardy6647
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?Or perhaps, it will get pissed that you keep asking for another optimization and find a way to kill you
- Rich
Unless it's a recording control room, or another room with a lot of acoustic treatment, most rooms are useless for analytical listening (though perhaps fine for just enjoying music).
It can not make "poorly-performing speakers" sound like well-designed speakers. Since it can, as you mention, make "poorly-performing speakers APPEAR to be performing like a well-designed speakers", and this incorrect notion is pushed by "automatic DSP vendors", how is that not "bad"?
Character should be in the recordings, not the system.I think what we'll end up with is not perfection but rather soulless homogeneity. It will be very, very good in quality -- but more or less bereft of character.
PS There's a pair of AR2ax in the basement even as I type this.
Character should be in the recordings, not the system.
Has DSP turned us into audio neurotics?
While it is true that 1970s electronics had a greater emphasis on switches and knobs, your display of Marantz receivers from the 1970s indicates an even more important trend at the time - a massive increase in available power.
Character should be in the recordings, not the system.
Thought that the Schroeder correction at ASR is by far used to my suprise almost 35% are using full correction. Just 57% is using the Schroeder correctionOr get better speakers. The problem is above Schroeder you don't know what you are measuring so in essence "driving blind". To me it seems like above Schroeder DSP should be done "by ear" as there is not going to be reliable correlations between measurements and what you hear.
Unless you enjoy the character of different sound systems.
You likely could if those changes were isolated in time and heard in short A - B switching listening sections.Also, my speakers sound good (acceptable balanced frequency response) at different locations in the room, but moving the mic even small amounts shows how much the measured response changes, I definitely can’t hear as much a difference as the measurements would lead me to believe.
While it is true that 1970s electronics had a greater emphasis on switches and knobs, your display of Marantz receivers from the 1970s indicates an even more important trend at the time - a massive increase in available power.
Yes the demand for more power in those times closely tracked the lowered speaker efficiency of many speakers then becoming popular.While it is true that 1970s electronics had a greater emphasis on switches and knobs, your display of Marantz receivers from the 1970s indicates an even more important trend at the time - a massive increase in available power.
Amir's Klippel machine is able to accurately identify FR issues of the speaker separate from the room. If you have accurate spinorama measurements like these and the speaker has a "good" directivity curve then some careful FR tuning may be helpful. If you were just measuring the speaker in the room with a MIC you would not be able to make this determination which is what some of the "automatic DSP" claim to do.It depends what any given individual considers horrible, poor, acceptable, good, excellent etc.
For example read through the comments on the Adam A4V review. It has a none trivial port resonance issue at 1khz, but Amirm still recommended it because it could be minimized with EQ. However some people ,lost their minds and posted all kinds of ridiculousness.
I hate to say it, but you could DSP any character you want.
That's already done,Barefoot does it.I hate to say it, but you could DSP any character you want.