[Ed Seedhouse[_2_]]

On Sep 8, 6:34=A0am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
"Gary Eickmeier" wrote in message

On the isssue of room reflections, our mutual friend David Clark seems to
think that the ear is pretty efficient at negating the effects of
reflections in the room that you are listening in. He seems to like the w=
ord
"dereverberation". Something like it seems to be in play, within reasonab=
le
limits.

There may be something to this - back in the 1960's when we were all
young and foolish I tried LSD a few times and one of the first
symptoms of it taking it's effects were always, for me, that I
suddenly started noticing room reflections I normally didn't hear. So
maybe the drug was knocking out those brain circuits that the brain
uses in suppressing room reflections as suggested above. Of course
this is merely anecdotal, and not evidence, but I thought I would
mention it for what it's worth.

I think so. The cited materal seems to have a lot of fancy words, and cre=
ate
an impression that the Audyssey process is more sophisticated than many
well-informed audiophiles and industry experts actually think it is.

I have an Onkyo receiver that includes the basic version it and I
think it's main effect is not so much on frequency response but on
adjusting the time delay for sloppily placed speakers so that the
sounds they make arrive at the ears together in spite of the miss-
adjustment. They also seem to improve the midrange of my front
speakers slightly and I prefer the sound with the Audyssey processing
on.

However, after running the adjustment program I have to dash over to
the sub and turn it down because the thing makes the bass far too
prominent for my tastes.

Once again, of course, merely subjective impressions that shouldn't be
taken too seriously.