DEQX’s uniquely powerful
speaker and room correction is used for professional surround mastering
by some of the worlds leading studios including famous Abbey Road studios
in London, to ensure their surround monitoring is accurate and transparent.
It is often that case that Home Theatre sound systems, in order to
save costs, are focused on loudness, bass and effects, at the expense
of the high audio resolution and accuracy that not only allow the system
to provide the best audiophile musical experiences, but also dramatically
improve the genuine impact and realism of a film’s soundtrack.
The
DEQX PDC family easily integrates with external surround sound
decoders, preamps and home theatre receivers.
There are a number of ways that DEQX can be incorporated into Home
Theatre systems. The right implementation for you depends on what
equipment you are using, and how far you want to take it. Arguably, the best
value implementation of DEQX in a Home Theatre uses a single
PDC (two inputs) for the front Left and Right main speakers, when
the DEQX then properly integrates with one or two subwoofer/s,
rather than using the sub-woofer output channel of your surround
receiver.
For stereo music, this will provide total speaker correction,
while properly time-aligning subwoofer/s and providing both speaker
and room correction. Film soundtracks, where the vast majority
of the music soundtrack is heard via the front left and right speakers,
will also benefit.
Where it is inconvenient to install the centre ‘dialogue’ speaker,
DEQX Calibrated™ correction will firm up the phantom imaging
of systems, especially when using DEQX-HD’s active linear phase
crossovers. In such a case the surround receiver/decoder is set to ‘no
centre speaker', so that the centre speaker audio is sent equally
to the left and right speakers. Many DEQX users have reported that
when using DEQX processing, the resulting ‘phantom’ centre
image is more desirable than an actual centre speaker.
A full surround DEQX Home Theatre implementation would use two to
four PDC-2.6 units to provide any surround configuration from 4.2
to 8.8 and anything in between! For advice on how to configure such
systems
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