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Old 12th January 2009   #86
Ethan Winer
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Originally Posted by renk900 View Post
ARC is apparently an evolution of this technology and as you know they believe their software can have an effect on time based problems in a room.
I'll be glad to believe it too as soon as they show proof with waterfall plots, along the lines of my Audyssey test. The same way companies like mine that sell bass traps show before/after proof. So why is no proof offered for ARC?

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It would seem that many people are hearing a substantial improvemnet in their rooms after using arc.
Let's say a room is boomy in the range of 200 to 300 Hz, and you add an EQ to the playback chain. Most experienced recording engineers will agree the result sounds less boomy simply because the boomy frequencies have been reduced. Is it as good as reducing the boominess with bass traps? Of course not. But it will subjectively sound "better." Especially to "the unwashed masses" who have never heard the improvement from using real bass traps.

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