"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Gary Eickmeier" wrote in message
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Well, I just perused the web site of this Audyssey company and it was a
little disappointing. Look at
http://www.audyssey.com/audio-technology/multeq/tour and see that all
they
are doing is varying levels of EQ and time domain room correction. I
think
I
have read about them a few times before.
One can find quite a bit of discussion about Audyssey on many HTML-based
home theater forums.
It does seem to get a fair amount of favorable comment from many end-users
and some reviewers based on personal experience. If it turned receivers
into
boat anchors, it wouldn't show up in as much equipment as it does.
In my opinion, it is misguided to try for a flat response at the
listening
position, and it is a mistake to assume that all reflections are evil and
try and "correct" for them with time domain filtering.
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
word
"dereverberation". Something like it seems to be in play, within
reasonable
limits.
They are just selling stuff.
I think so. The cited materal seems to have a lot of fancy words, and
create
an impression that the Audyssey process is more sophisticated than many
well-informed audiophiles and industry experts actually think it is.
It is interesting to note that Kal Rubenstein who does the surround column
for Stereophile always seems to have to "tweak" the Audyssey settings
derived automatically. He claims it gets you in the ballpark, but that the
ear is ultimately the better judge of what sounds correct.