"Cite some of these people, please":
Here you go:

Quotes from Stereophile, September 2001 Issue


"The longer I lived with the TacT Audio RCS 2.0, the more I was
convinced that it brought me much closer to the sound of live music,
and that room correction should be a mandatory part of any serious
audio system."

"... the Tact's reproduction of an undithered 1kHz sinewave at -90.31
dBFS was effectively perfect..."

"... I was impressed ... by the effect of the RCS 2.0 on imaging
stability and naturalness of tonal quality ..."

" ... the result was my perception of vastly improved resolution of
detail across the spectrum ...the bass was exposed with greater
definition and impact ... With TacT correction, the bass shook my
room, yet was defined and entirely devoid of boom... The RCS also made
the placement of bass instruments in depth and width much more precise
.... I heard what had blown me away at the Show: tight and powerful
sounds occupying a really huge space .. Voices, speaking or singing,
were also devastatingly improved."

"...The walls melted away. I was transported to the performance. The
speakers disappeared. A veil was lifted."

"The RCS brough me into a believable space in which each instrument
had a presence and a place."

You can read the whole review at Stereophile.com

From Soundstage!:

"Let me go so far as to state that after applying a not very
aggressive correction curve to them, they sounded like new speakers.
This should only be taken in the most positive way."

From High Fidelity, Denmark:
"Conclusion: The TACT Audio Room Correction System revolutionizes what
can be done to improve audio in the home. We do not recall having ever
before experienced a single product which draws such a definitive line
between "Before" and "After".

When I'll have some more time, I'll find you much, much more.





Jones_r wrote:
Chris, Room correction by electronics might be a fallacy for your ears
(or understanding), but to mine, and many, many other people, it's
real.

It can fudge a couple of specific problems, but mostly it's a disaster.

I'm not new to digital room correction, and if I thought it's a
fallacy, I never would have gotten into it. I really like the way it
change the sound for the better, when done right.

People like you really makes me wonder. What satisfaction do you get
by saying this technology doesn't work, before you even heard what it
could do ?. I advise you to reserve your judgement until you actually
listen with your own ears. You might have to eat your hat.

Basically it has a lot to do with the fact that it doesn't work. Back
in the seventies, everybody and his brother were heavily EQing rooms, and
invariably it caused a lot more damage than good. If you have room problems,
you fix them. You don't try to fake around them. You can't fix time domain
problems with frequency domain solutions.

I suppose dozens of other professional reviewers, from respected audio
magazines (whose reviews can be found with ease all over the
internet), who like me, also heard the benefits of digital room
correction, were all deluded, drugged, blackmailed (pick your favorite
choice) prior to giving their sometimes VERY positive reviews.

Cite some of these people, please.
--scott