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Originally Posted by Slogun  I've heard it, demonstrated by the IK guys themselves. I'd rather much prefer the 'untreated' version over the processed. |
I saw IK at last month's AES show, but I was busy at the RealTraps booth and wasn't able to actually hear the demo. But this brings up two good points:
* Even though I haven't tested this particular plug-in implementation of the Audyssey processor, I know what it does and how it works, and I understand well the failings of
all such systems. The key point is the more correction you aim for, the smaller the improved physical area becomes.
* Earlier this year I was invited by Charles Dye to speak about acoustics at the NARAS division of the Grammys, which was held at the Hit Factory / Criteria studios in North Miami. They set up three pairs of speakers in a lounge room typical of the size people use for home studios. The audience auditioned all three speakers with and without acoustic treatment, using the same music repeatedly. (I had brought one of our Standard Room Kits.) We also played the JBLs with and without its RMC (automatic Room Mode Correction) engaged. I forget some of the exact speaker model numbers, but one was a pair of JBL's LSR series, another was a pair of Genelecs, and the third was Yamaha NS-10s. Besides myself and the audience, there were four high-profile engineers there including Charles Dye and Eric Schilling who mixed all of Gloria Estefan's big hits from years past.
At dinner afterward all four professional engineers said they thought the JBL speakers were "okay," but only when the RMC was disabled.
--Ethan