Quote from article:
“The result is
perfect bass at EVERY seat location with minimal variance.”
Trinnov’s new WaveForming technology seems remarkably similar in capabilities to DIRAC ART. This editorial illustrates the differences and how to plan your speaker and subwoofer system accordingly.
www.audioholics.com
Very well written article. A very broad vision and a modern understanding of the topic. But I do not agree with the conclusion.
I'm glad to welcome these new (relatively) technologies for room correction. I say relatively because these technologies themselves have already existed for some time in the telecommunications sector.
That said, I remain skeptical of Trinnov's technology, not so much for effectiveness as for scalability.
Dirac ART is developed to make the most of what is there, where it is, without limit to the achievable benefit. It's just scalable and more effective out of the box, so to speak.
Trinnov Waveforming requires that the system has drivers with certain directivity characteristics (presumably, as the article also says) and more or less specific positions. So the consumer must already foresee all of this from the outset.
Not exactly a consumer product.
It is true that Trinnov is usually intended for a precise and niche clientele that will have no problem accommodating certain requirements.
However, from the point of view of collective technological progress, Dirac's approach seems to me much more valid and sustainable.
Sure, it would be nice to have some data to understand how much their algorithm scales as a function of the number of drivers and their low frequency extension, but maybe it's too random to tell and commercially double-edged.
But apart from that, this is why I disagree with the way the article portrays the Trinnov Waveforming technology.
But oh well, we are in the infancy of these approaches, and the potential milestones are just amazing, so I can't wait to see how they develop!
Maybe one day we can solve the room problem without spending a fortune on treatment (and then risk being thrown out of the house by the wife
)