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BullBuchanan
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If they are doing that, I want it in my house. I've used Dirac at home and it doesn't do that. The biggest thing I notice is during solos of acoustic instruments like a guitar, accordian or bagpipes, there's more volume in the attack. It's like there's a buddy sitting next to me saying "this is the good part" and just turning up that instrument a couple dB for a second as it comes in from it's position 25 degrees to the left and then promptly recedes when it should. I can turn up the volume in my car to the maximum but it never sounds like it's shouting at me, it just sounds bigger. To a certain extent my headphones do that but they have less of that "bang your first on the roof" energy behind them, even when they have more and cleaner bass.It's true - I've never had my home system replicate the joy of turning on the radio to hear the opening riff of Sweet Home Alabama in the same instant the turbos spooled and the freeway onramp magically cleared.
To the question at hand - Is there any evidence that the fancy car system doesn't have built-in psychoacoustic sweeteners? It would be easy for the OEM to include a DSP doing volume-dependent loudness, 'spatialization', a few ms delay or reverb in the rear channels, etc. Heck, Dirac probably does more revenue from the automotive world than from us fringe lunatics. All the customer knows or cares is it "sounds great" on the showroom floor.