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In Reply to: Thuneau Allocator and onboard C-Media 9880L - detailed method. posted by Presto on November 6, 2006 at 13:04:59:
Presto wrote:
"Congratulations Jan! Your Frequency Allocator / Phase Arbitrator is amazing! If it sounds this good using a cheap onboard Codec and ASIO4ALL - then I can't imagine how good it's going to sound with a proper ASIO soundcard with mixing capabilities and super quality external DACS."
I did an experiment with the Frequency Allocator and my LynxTwo B card this weekend. First I measured the overall room response of my speakers with their native passive crossovers with True RTA.Next I opened up my speakers and temporarily bypassed the crossovers and wired the low bi-wire input directly to the woofer and the high bi-wire input directly to the tweeter. I set up a basic Linkwitz Riley forth order crossover at 2600 Khz as that is where the passive slopes are in my speakers.
Then I tweaked the Allocator crossover by using the parametric and shelf eq built into the software to get the same overall response as the speaker's native passive crossover.
Over the next day I listened and used the Allocator to make minor adjustments which dialed out all of the things I didn't like about the native passive crossovers; such things as removing another 2db in the "BBC Dip" range, adding 1.5 db in the low shelf. I also used the parametric eq to dial out the big standing wave room humps in the bass. Then I set up the arbitrator for the replaced main speaker crossover and the speaker/subs crossover and tweaked the delay between the mains and subs to match their room positioning.
The results are hard to believe. It basically sounds like I put another five grand into my speakers and moved my system into a bigger room... more dynamics, smoother yet more detailed sound, warmth without midbass bloat, and the imaging that I've always wanted in my listening room. Overall a more free sound coming from the speakers. This amazes me because I have never been able to get close to this kind of sound with passive crossovers nor with the Marchand electronic crossover. The Allocator/Arbitrator is great stuff, especially when paired with a sound card that contains good DACs.
Alan
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