"Harry Lavo" wrote in message
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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.
For relatively large differences, such as those involved with obtaining a
good sounding system in a listening room, the ear is indeed the better
judge. Technical tools are great for getting system response into the "basll
park" which is in itself quite interesting. I appears that the ear works
best when the sound quality is already quite good. IOW it is a better tool
for tweaking than making large changes.
There are far more sophisticated tools for measuring system response, such
as the DLC Perceptual Transfer Function measurement set:
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=9248
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...=rep1&type=pdf