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Re: Who's Kidding Who?

Hi Brad

Don't understand that studios, who use literally miles of inexpensive (but good) cables, don't have a problem of EMI and RFI being introduced, yet you say that, in the home, a 1 meter cable would cause this problem! Please clarify. As I understand it, Belden or Canare, etc cable is more than properly screened against these problems.

Yes, other componants (perticularly speakers) will greatly alter the sound. They all undertake some form of signal processing - cables (like water pipes) do not.

Tact equipment is not sold in UK, so I've not had the opportunity of using their "room correction system". I imagine it comes with a test CD and a microphone. You play the CD, the microphone and Tact analyses the sound reaching your listening position and suggests equaliser adjustments to compensate for non-linear frequency response.

Ideally this would be great. It sounds a bit like what "tone controls", or stand-alone "graphic equalisers" used to attempt. These lost favour as other componants improved and as people realised that the more componants in the signal path, the more the basic signal was spoilt. No doubt Tact has taken things a lot further - I presume the incomming signal is digitised before processing, and then un-digitised. Nevertheless, it adds trauma to the original signal and, if you can find a CD player, amp and speaker to suit your listening room, you would be better off without an equaliser. Tact seems to just make choice of equipment far less crucial. Or have I misinterpreted the purpose of it?

Good listening

Peter

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