| Ethan, I'm not picking sides here, but I read back over Ben's posts in this thread. I don't think he's arguing for one over the other, DSP vs Bass Traps. He's acknowledged that bass traps are a viable solution and he sells them, so he must believe they work. Seems like he's just saying it's not the end all. But, I guess I should let him speak for himself and stay out of this cause I don't know much....
The thing I noticed about your graph is that even with bass traps, it looks like the problems are only minimized, not eliminated, so wouldn't DSP help a little? I'm not saying in place of, but rather to augment what the bass traps are doing. I already have a room full of bass traps and like I said in an earlier post, it would be nice to get it the last 10 - 20%. I'm hopeful that ARC can do this for me.
One last note, this ARC thing supposedly does more than just just measure one point in the room (mix position). I don't get this.... don't frankly understand how it could work but I guess this does some sort of an averaging thing - something different than what's been done in the DBX driverack, or the JBL LSR series and others. I can't defend it till I know it works, or not, but I just thought it was worth noting since we've been saying you have to "have your head in a vice" for something like this to work. Maybe doing an average thing would give one a little bigger sweet spot and take care of the biggest problems in the room? i dunno.
j |