Yes, please do a video explaining what the heck a wavelet is, how to interpret that graph, and how to take a measurement. I've learned so much from you and your channel and would love to continue to learn more!
Gene, thank you for the consistently relevant content. Audioholics is hands down, my favorite audio channel. Puns are getting pretty thick around here… cheers! 🍻
Well said. I'd add that Gene's ability to prove certain things and admit to when he believes something, but can't prove it is what makes me trust him over anyone else. IMO, one's ability to do this is a true sign of intelligence. Thanks for all the knowledge you've shared Gene.
Yess. Full in depth tutorials for each different tool. Wavelet, Rt 60, eq, RTA, etc etc. each with their own (long) video. Alignment tool is a good one too if familiar.
Nice episode man, I would like to see you go forward with a wavelet video or series. Moving speakers out in the room has been on my mind too. I think allot about shaping my room into a large waveguide for flush mounted drivers. In a typical room, I think about finding the frequency at which the sound stops wrapping around the speaker, and then finding a distance to the wall which is harmonious with that wavelength. Repeating the concept for the width, as an interplay of fine tuning. One bit about getting a calibration microphone, is that receivers auto-calibration come with an EQ microphone profile specifically shaped for the microphone it was packaged with. So someone assuming they can just plug in a super expensive microphone into their receiver, might be really disappointed. On the Subject, I’ve become increasingly interested in the notion of using a personal computer to do the home theater processing, room eq, calibration etc, moving away from buying receivers with sets of features, and just running everything on a PC.
Please do cover the best REW assessment methods and approaches for accurately measuring for stereo, stereo with subwoofers and home theater center channel systems. A dedicated series on setting up and using and interpreting REW by Audioholics, Matthew Poes and Gene would be the bomb. Thanks for the wavelet example - stunning response!
Great stuff specially when you are talking about the Graph along with what it does and what to look for. FR graph is the easiest one to understand and I think anyone who starts using REW knows about it but there is hardly any stuff here that goes into other things like RTA Decay. I always used RTA (not RTA Decay) and wondered why my graph doesn't go even close to what's recommend and here we are now you telling us that RTA is for big rooms. Anyway, very good video. Would be great to share all your REW graphs and how you used them before/after to achieve what sounds best to you. This will help us understand different graphs and how to use them to guide us acoustically treat our room better.
Great topic. Thanks Gene. Tip for everyone: You can have some fun in Photoshop with layer blends. Just grab screenshots in REW of your Left and Right measurements. Then add both of them into PS and play around with the layer blends.
Always tricky to find the right balance between 2 channel greatness and home theatre in the same room. Really nice to see your trying to get the best compromise for both. Most people tend to focus one or the other.
Thanks! I appreciated your presentation and discussion of wavelets. I have been looking at the spectrogram, but a different presentation. I will do some more exploring to see if I can find this presentation, but additional discussion of interpretation will be appreciated. I also note that Nyal Mellor and Jeff Hedback wrote a paper called “Acoustical Measurement Standards for Stereo Listening Rooms” that I have found helpful to evaluate and improve my listening room. I found it on the internet and have a copy, but not a link handy.
Memory foam is closed cell foam. Absorption works on the idea that the velocity of the sound passes through the foam and gets trapped, you can’t get trapped in closed cell foam!
Gene: well done! Yes, 2 channel as part of a HT system can be excellent. For another video, how about showing how to add real 2 channel components into a HT based system using the pre-outs and HT bypass options. I’m 90% music: 2 channel/2 channel & subs. More on this subject, Gene. Please!😀
If you are using pre-outs from your AVR to 2 channel pre-amp, and the pre-amp volume control is digital (ie.. you can easily set to a specific value, e.g. 75), then you don't need the HT bypass option. I have a complex active system (Legacy Audio Valor), where I am using a 20 watt tube integrated amp as the power amp for the treble section (the tube-quality is mainly from by the tubes in the pre-amp section). The gain on the tube amp is significantly higher than the internal active class-D active modules (e.g. gain of 30 versus 26). I used an iPhone SPL meter app to make sure I had the tube-amp volume control set correctly (which never changes). I then set the Legacy Audio Wavelet digital preamp to 75 (as my default), and then control HT volume using the volume control of the AVR. The AVR drives the surround speakers directly. I use manual calibration of the AVR using an SPL meter and tape measure to set the gains and delays on each of the channels. I don't bother with a center channel as the center phantom channel from the speakers is very good. I think the center channel is probably popular because HT main speakers tend to be cheaper so you need it for dialog clarity. The Legacy Audio Wavelet allows gain control for each of the active channels. Since the tube amp has a higher noise floor (THD of 0.1% to 1%) at higher volumes (and noise does come from the mains supply), I set up my Wavelet to has a 10dB gain for this channel versus the others (by reducing the gain by 10dB for all the other channels), so that I can reduce the gain from the tube-preamp by 10dB (which reduces the noise contribution from the tube amp). If you have appropriate meters, manual calibration can work quite well. In some cases, you need it.
Thanks for the video, the explanation of Wavelet is appreciated, I did not know it in that configuration. It would be nice if they made more videos about acoustics and accompanied with measurements and their interpretations. Written with translator. Greetings
Having the full RRP of your equipment and room acoustics will help us all draw a better conclusion I think on how easy or hard it is to achieve your idea of what constitutes an Audiophile system...
Great stuff Gene! I would love to learn more about the measurement taking and interpreting side. I feel like I (and probably most of us) would benefit from it but I just have no clue how to go about it besides buying the equipment. Cheers!
Nice video Gene. Definitely interested in how you make the measurements and what approach you recommend to mitigate issues and improve measured performance. Also how different measurements effect what you hear.
Great video Gene. Interested in the memoy foam you used as an absorber. I would like to do DIY absorber but would like to stay away from rockwool. How do you find it perform? Do you have the detail about the absorption rate on frequency, at certain thickness. Really helpful if you have that.
Gene, Yes please, more detailed videos would be great but please could you include tips on how to improve results so that when we ultimately discover our systems don't measure as well as we'd like, we can do something about it?! Also it would be good to understand in relation to frequency bands, which of these measurements carry the most weight.
Thank you for another excellent video! Question....... I noticed you have 3 different types of acoustic treatments on your side walls (absorption/3d diffuser/2d diffuser). Which of the 3 did you place at the 1st reflection point on the side walls for your main listening position and why? Another big YES for deep dive sessions on REW!
Hey Gene, love what you are doing keep up the good work! Can you please consider making a video on how to create FIR Filters for phase correction? That would be the greatest, thanks for your great content! Kindest regards
The reason most people have symmetry for acoustic room treatment. And also normal room decor etc is because humans visually prefer symmetry. But i remember a couple of previous Audioholics videos with Anthony Grimani. Where he said binaural dissimilarity also works well for acoustic room treatment. With a diffuser on the left wall, absorber directly opposite on the right wall etc. He actually said a lot of the rooms he does uses binaural dissimilarity. And a later follow up video Matthew Poes looked into binaural dissimilarity. With him finding various studies that shows binaural dissimilarity does actually work. My simplistic view of why binaural dissimilarity works very well for home theater and music. Is because in the real world outside in the street, in shops, restaurants etc nothing is symmetrical. Ie the left and right ears aren't getting the same, or even similar sounds from the left and right of them.
Very cool Gene! Definitely more videos on the Spectogram and RT60 decay. For the wavelet measurement, if the crossover point and below is way off from the rest of the spectrum, that would be incorrect time alignment of the sub right?
most likely yes. I usually find when I minimize the delay at and below the XOVER frequency, you get better integration in an amplitude response measurement too.
By all means, use whatever sound correction system you want and like however, do yourself and your system a favor by finishing it off with dialing in your Kick Drum. Play music that has prominent Kick Drum like Fleetwood Mac's The Chain...dial in your volume, delay and phase while sitting in your listening position. Once you do this, your system will sound incredible...
Nice job Gene. Do you have before and after measurements? Curious to see what the numbers looked like before the acoustic panels. Also, any chance you change share that .mdat file so I can take a look at it in REW?
That had the potential of being interesting, but was incomprehensible for me. I would have loved to get a bit more basic info on those graphs: what are the axes, what are the colors showing. What is RT60? Some info on price of mic and software & running environment. Thanks. Maybe add some links to other videos on those topics to the description box below the video.
So, I watched your other video ua-cam.com/video/ERTf4XBT3Bc/v-deo.html and I am really happy at now knowing more about RT60 Decay measurements and the waterfall graph as a result, but the spectogram had me confused. I came here to this video to learn more and once I found you clicking Wavelet and seeing Linear as the selections, it all made sense - and I am extremely happy with what I now know about this software. I had doonas hanging all over the place yesterday, taking readings and seeing what changes. Since watching your videos last night I have been looking more at my readings and seeing ow much potential my room has. I am very excited about the future of my room. Thank you.
Wouldn't you be better off without a center channel, at least when watching alone, considering the placement makes the sound of the L/R speakers much better than the center yet most sound in a movie would come out of the center channel? It looks strange to me that so much effort is made for the L/R channels when most of the sound comes out of the center...
A centre channel is crucial for home cinema/theater. Plus also crucial for Dolby Atmos music track's. The centre channel in the Audioholics theater isn't just a afterthought. The same effort as the left & right speakers has been done. Directly centre behind a acoustically transparent screen. Plus memory foam around the centre channel to greatly reduce waves bouncing behind the screen.
@@C--A If the phantom image is so perfect you can't even tell that there isn't a center channel in stereo, how can it be crucial under those circumstances?
@@galzohar I specifically said a centre channel is crucial for home cinema/theater (ie movies with native 5.1, 7.1, Dolby Atmos, DTS X tracks) and music with native Dolby Atmos tracks (also native 5.1, 7.1 music track's) which is correct. For stereo music tracks they don't use the centre channel speaker, sound only comes out the front left & right speakers. I have bookshelf speakers well positioned away from the side walls, and not against the back wall. In my perfect seating position directly between my left & right speakers I get a very good centre phantom image when listening to stereo music. Also tested it out using a AV speaker test disc with my centre channel disconnected.
@@galzohar You are getting confused thinking that a centre channel isn't required for 5.1, 7.1, Atmos movies and music track's. A phantom centre channel in those can be good, assuming the front left & right speakers are setup very well. But actually using a centre channel speaker set up well will give a much better audible performance for 5.1, 7.1, Atmos movies and music. Plus the left & right speakers won't be strained having to also produce the centre channel sounds.
The Limitation of hearing range isn’t so disadvantageous. If you can’t hear 14 KHz while listening to the original, you won’t miss it when you listen to the copy.
I would gladly work for a millionaire who loves music, but has no time to research such complex things as acoustics and hi-fi electronics. BTW I live in Mexico. Just call me and I will turn your house into musical Nirvana! Oh and BTW great work Gene, Matt, Don and all the other Audioholics.
Unfortunately, conventional stereo does not sound anything like a live sonic event. Stereo reproduction is subject to fundamental distortions of spacial perspectives that just do not occur in real life. Everyone has become accustomed to the limits of stereo and has learned to listen to normal stereo imaging because they enjoy the music, not because it sounds like a real performance.
@@Audioholics yea that was half-joke(and I read the scale wrong, thought the steps are 10dB), mine is boosted a few dB aswell. I would try crossing the subs at 120hz tho, to make that 100-150hz region a bit louder and see how it sounds. If you have multiple subs the localization problem is minimal in my experience, cheers!
Hey Gene did you ever get a chance to look into that THX media director and see if they're still doing it or it was scrapped? Here's a link to the original video I saw about it. I believe I also saw it on home theater geeks back when that was a show. ua-cam.com/video/v_qlN5uSsSQ/v-deo.html
Yes, please do a video explaining what the heck a wavelet is, how to interpret that graph, and how to take a measurement. I've learned so much from you and your channel and would love to continue to learn more!
Gene, thank you for the consistently relevant content. Audioholics is hands down, my favorite audio channel.
Puns are getting pretty thick around here… cheers! 🍻
Gene you dont have to prove your prowess to us. Forget GR and anyone else who calls you out. If there's anyone on YT we trust -- its you.
Well said. I'd add that Gene's ability to prove certain things and admit to when he believes something, but can't prove it is what makes me trust him over anyone else. IMO, one's ability to do this is a true sign of intelligence. Thanks for all the knowledge you've shared Gene.
Thanks but this isn't about GR Research.
GR shoot everybody isn't? or he really name people out?
Yess. Full in depth tutorials for each different tool. Wavelet, Rt 60, eq, RTA, etc etc. each with their own (long) video. Alignment tool is a good one too if familiar.
Agreed!
Yes agreed! A detailed video of how to do it all
I absolutely approve of the scientific backing of the highly subjective description of sound.
1000% like for this.
Nice episode man, I would like to see you go forward with a wavelet video or series.
Moving speakers out in the room has been on my mind too.
I think allot about shaping my room into a large waveguide for flush mounted drivers.
In a typical room, I think about finding the frequency at which the sound stops wrapping around the speaker, and then finding a distance to the wall which is harmonious with that wavelength. Repeating the concept for the width, as an interplay of fine tuning.
One bit about getting a calibration microphone, is that receivers auto-calibration come with an EQ microphone profile specifically shaped for the microphone it was packaged with. So someone assuming they can just plug in a super expensive microphone into their receiver, might be really disappointed.
On the Subject, I’ve become increasingly interested in the notion of using a personal computer to do the home theater processing, room eq, calibration etc, moving away from buying receivers with sets of features, and just running everything on a PC.
Yes I’ve been hungry for this 2yrs since your rew eq intros
Yes Gene, please keep the REW education videos coming- thank you.
I would love to see how you use the wavelet to analyze your system and perform time alignments.
Thanks for another interesting video. Yes please more content on wavelet and dialing in room acoustics and speaker setup.
More this 2 channel stuff please! Want to know how to interpret wavelets and more..
Please do cover the best REW assessment methods and approaches for accurately measuring for stereo, stereo with subwoofers and home theater center channel systems. A dedicated series on setting up and using and interpreting REW by Audioholics, Matthew Poes and Gene would be the bomb. Thanks for the wavelet example - stunning response!
I would definitely love to see how you do the wavelet measurements.
Thanks for this. Would love to see more like this with more detail on how to setup and read the REW graphs.
Great stuff specially when you are talking about the Graph along with what it does and what to look for. FR graph is the easiest one to understand and I think anyone who starts using REW knows about it but there is hardly any stuff here that goes into other things like RTA Decay. I always used RTA (not RTA Decay) and wondered why my graph doesn't go even close to what's recommend and here we are now you telling us that RTA is for big rooms.
Anyway, very good video. Would be great to share all your REW graphs and how you used them before/after to achieve what sounds best to you. This will help us understand different graphs and how to use them to guide us acoustically treat our room better.
Great topic. Thanks Gene.
Tip for everyone: You can have some fun in Photoshop with layer blends. Just grab screenshots in REW of your Left and Right measurements. Then add both of them into PS and play around with the layer blends.
How do you measure rt60 with REW?
I love videos on this topic, and I'm really looking forward to more!
Always tricky to find the right balance between 2 channel greatness and home theatre in the same room. Really nice to see your trying to get the best compromise for both. Most people tend to focus one or the other.
Thanks! I appreciated your presentation and discussion of wavelets. I have been looking at the spectrogram, but a different presentation. I will do some more exploring to see if I can find this presentation, but additional discussion of interpretation will be appreciated. I also note that Nyal Mellor and Jeff Hedback wrote a paper called “Acoustical Measurement Standards for Stereo Listening Rooms” that I have found helpful to evaluate and improve my listening room. I found it on the internet and have a copy, but not a link handy.
Memory foam is closed cell foam.
Absorption works on the idea that the velocity of the sound passes through the foam and gets trapped, you can’t get trapped in closed cell foam!
Gene: well done! Yes, 2 channel as part of a HT system can be excellent.
For another video, how about showing how to add real 2 channel components into a HT based system using the pre-outs and HT bypass options.
I’m 90% music: 2 channel/2 channel & subs.
More on this subject, Gene. Please!😀
If you are using pre-outs from your AVR to 2 channel pre-amp, and the pre-amp volume control is digital (ie.. you can easily set to a specific value, e.g. 75), then you don't need the HT bypass option. I have a complex active system (Legacy Audio Valor), where I am using a 20 watt tube integrated amp as the power amp for the treble section (the tube-quality is mainly from by the tubes in the pre-amp section). The gain on the tube amp is significantly higher than the internal active class-D active modules (e.g. gain of 30 versus 26). I used an iPhone SPL meter app to make sure I had the tube-amp volume control set correctly (which never changes). I then set the Legacy Audio Wavelet digital preamp to 75 (as my default), and then control HT volume using the volume control of the AVR. The AVR drives the surround speakers directly. I use manual calibration of the AVR using an SPL meter and tape measure to set the gains and delays on each of the channels. I don't bother with a center channel as the center phantom channel from the speakers is very good. I think the center channel is probably popular because HT main speakers tend to be cheaper so you need it for dialog clarity. The Legacy Audio Wavelet allows gain control for each of the active channels. Since the tube amp has a higher noise floor (THD of 0.1% to 1%) at higher volumes (and noise does come from the mains supply), I set up my Wavelet to has a 10dB gain for this channel versus the others (by reducing the gain by 10dB for all the other channels), so that I can reduce the gain from the tube-preamp by 10dB (which reduces the noise contribution from the tube amp). If you have appropriate meters, manual calibration can work quite well. In some cases, you need it.
Hi Gene! A in-depth video of those measurements would be appreciated! Thanks!
Thank you! More of these!💫
Thanks for the video, the explanation of Wavelet is appreciated, I did not know it in that configuration.
It would be nice if they made more videos about acoustics and accompanied with measurements and their interpretations.
Written with translator.
Greetings
Having the full RRP of your equipment and room acoustics will help us all draw a better conclusion I think on how easy or hard it is to achieve your idea of what constitutes an Audiophile system...
Great stuff Gene! I would love to learn more about the measurement taking and interpreting side. I feel like I (and probably most of us) would benefit from it but I just have no clue how to go about it besides buying the equipment. Cheers!
Those RBH speakers are so badass. I own a pair of Goldenear Triton One Rs as a part of a 9.4.6 home theater system but somehow still have envy.
Nice video Gene. Definitely interested in how you make the measurements and what approach you recommend to mitigate issues and improve measured performance. Also how different measurements effect what you hear.
You are extremely intelligent .and now after watching you after all these years I'm pretty smart also, !
Did you use tuned membrane traps to tame room modes that couldn't be treated with porous absorbers?
I would be very much interested in guide on how to make those measurements. Thanks Gene
I thought the only way to reach that level of performance was with a PS Audio Powerplant
Ha!
Nice inside joke for sure.
I’d love a Grimani or Poes style deep dive on wavelets.
Great video Gene. Interested in the memoy foam you used as an absorber. I would like to do DIY absorber but would like to stay away from rockwool. How do you find it perform? Do you have the detail about the absorption rate on frequency, at certain thickness. Really helpful if you have that.
Gene, Yes please, more detailed videos would be great but please could you include tips on how to improve results so that when we ultimately discover our systems don't measure as well as we'd like, we can do something about it?! Also it would be good to understand in relation to frequency bands, which of these measurements carry the most weight.
Thank you for another excellent video!
Question....... I noticed you have 3 different types of acoustic treatments on your side walls (absorption/3d diffuser/2d diffuser). Which of the 3 did you place at the 1st reflection point on the side walls for your main listening position and why?
Another big YES for deep dive sessions on REW!
I can't recall, is REW useful as an ETA in an automotive setting?
Hey Gene,
love what you are doing keep up the good work!
Can you please consider making a video on how to create FIR Filters for phase correction?
That would be the greatest, thanks for your great content!
Kindest regards
The reason most people have symmetry for acoustic room treatment. And also normal room decor etc is because humans visually prefer symmetry. But i remember a couple of previous Audioholics videos with Anthony Grimani. Where he said binaural dissimilarity also works well for acoustic room treatment.
With a diffuser on the left wall, absorber directly opposite on the right wall etc. He actually said a lot of the rooms he does uses binaural dissimilarity. And a later follow up video Matthew Poes looked into binaural dissimilarity. With him finding various studies that shows binaural dissimilarity does actually work.
My simplistic view of why binaural dissimilarity works very well for home theater and music. Is because in the real world outside in the street, in shops, restaurants etc nothing is symmetrical. Ie the left and right ears aren't getting the same, or even similar sounds from the left and right of them.
Very cool Gene! Definitely more videos on the Spectogram and RT60 decay. For the wavelet measurement, if the crossover point and below is way off from the rest of the spectrum, that would be incorrect time alignment of the sub right?
most likely yes. I usually find when I minimize the delay at and below the XOVER frequency, you get better integration in an amplitude response measurement too.
By all means, use whatever sound correction system you want and like however, do yourself and your system a favor by finishing it off with dialing in your Kick Drum. Play music that has prominent Kick Drum like Fleetwood Mac's The Chain...dial in your volume, delay and phase while sitting in your listening position. Once you do this, your system will sound incredible...
Please do a wavelet video!
Nice job Gene. Do you have before and after measurements? Curious to see what the numbers looked like before the acoustic panels.
Also, any chance you change share that .mdat file so I can take a look at it in REW?
Can you make a quick video of your room so we can see how it is all around and how big it is to relate with it?
It's in the works.
Would love to see a Poes PowerPoint deep dive on measuring and interpreting wavelets and RT60.
That had the potential of being interesting, but was incomprehensible for me. I would have loved to get a bit more basic info on those graphs: what are the axes, what are the colors showing. What is RT60? Some info on price of mic and software & running environment. Thanks.
Maybe add some links to other videos on those topics to the description box below the video.
Trust your ears, ignore the graphs.
@@TheDanEdwards Graphs can help to understand what one hears. Similar to levels/curves in imaging software.
Guys, what’s a simple 2 ch amp i can buy to drive Klipsch RP 150Ms? It’s mainly going to be used to play music at my desk while working at home
Look for cheap audio man on UA-cam. Great UA-cam channel for such a question.
Yes would love the videos on the software yes do it ...thanks
Very good!
Wavelets, yes please!
Yes more please!
I would love to expand my knowledge of REW. The more resources the better.
I'd really like to learn how to measure decay time.
Subwoofer integration with the main would be a good video
Where in the world is Matt?
So, I watched your other video ua-cam.com/video/ERTf4XBT3Bc/v-deo.html and I am really happy at now knowing more about RT60 Decay measurements and the waterfall graph as a result, but the spectogram had me confused.
I came here to this video to learn more and once I found you clicking Wavelet and seeing Linear as the selections, it all made sense - and I am extremely happy with what I now know about this software.
I had doonas hanging all over the place yesterday, taking readings and seeing what changes. Since watching your videos last night I have been looking more at my readings and seeing ow much potential my room has. I am very excited about the future of my room. Thank you.
Wouldn't you be better off without a center channel, at least when watching alone, considering the placement makes the sound of the L/R speakers much better than the center yet most sound in a movie would come out of the center channel? It looks strange to me that so much effort is made for the L/R channels when most of the sound comes out of the center...
A centre channel is crucial for home cinema/theater. Plus also crucial for Dolby Atmos music track's.
The centre channel in the Audioholics theater isn't just a afterthought. The same effort as the left & right speakers has been done.
Directly centre behind a acoustically transparent screen. Plus memory foam around the centre channel to greatly reduce waves bouncing behind the screen.
@@C--A If the phantom image is so perfect you can't even tell that there isn't a center channel in stereo, how can it be crucial under those circumstances?
@@galzohar I specifically said a centre channel is crucial for home cinema/theater (ie movies with native 5.1, 7.1, Dolby Atmos, DTS X tracks) and music with native Dolby Atmos tracks (also native 5.1, 7.1 music track's) which is correct.
For stereo music tracks they don't use the centre channel speaker, sound only comes out the front left & right speakers. I have bookshelf speakers well positioned away from the side walls, and not against the back wall.
In my perfect seating position directly between my left & right speakers I get a very good centre phantom image when listening to stereo music. Also tested it out using a AV speaker test disc with my centre channel disconnected.
@@galzohar You are getting confused thinking that a centre channel isn't required for 5.1, 7.1, Atmos movies and music track's. A phantom centre channel in those can be good, assuming the front left & right speakers are setup very well.
But actually using a centre channel speaker set up well will give a much better audible performance for 5.1, 7.1, Atmos movies and music. Plus the left & right speakers won't be strained having to also produce the centre channel sounds.
@@galzohar Get the triangle rule you can compromise between pinpoint center and wide soundstage, beside pulling out of the wall.
The Limitation of hearing range isn’t so disadvantageous. If you can’t hear 14 KHz while listening to the original, you won’t miss it when you listen to the copy.
When the Unicorn ends up in your home !!!
Two channel high fidelity nirvana.... 🙏
I would gladly work for a millionaire who loves music, but has no time to research such complex things as acoustics and hi-fi electronics. BTW I live in Mexico. Just call me and I will turn your house into musical Nirvana! Oh and BTW great work Gene, Matt, Don and all the other Audioholics.
Unfortunately, conventional stereo does not sound anything like a live sonic event. Stereo reproduction is subject to fundamental distortions of spacial perspectives that just do not occur in real life. Everyone has become accustomed to the limits of stereo and has learned to listen to normal stereo imaging because they enjoy the music, not because it sounds like a real performance.
Wow I thought I was a basshead with my 3x 18" but you beat me to it with that +10dB bass region :o must be that super high testosterone ;)
That's a very natural sounding bass boost. Calibrating flat in room response sounds horribly thin to most people regardless of testosterone.
@@Audioholics yea that was half-joke(and I read the scale wrong, thought the steps are 10dB), mine is boosted a few dB aswell. I would try crossing the subs at 120hz tho, to make that 100-150hz region a bit louder and see how it sounds. If you have multiple subs the localization problem is minimal in my experience, cheers!
Hey Gene did you ever get a chance to look into that THX media director and see if they're still doing it or it was scrapped?
Here's a link to the original video I saw about it.
I believe I also saw it on home theater geeks back when that was a show.
ua-cam.com/video/v_qlN5uSsSQ/v-deo.html
2 channel is for old people. I want all speakers surrounding me in music
Atmos or upmixed music > 2Ch any day of the week