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In Reply to: More on XP vs. Vista Sound Quality posted by richs on March 1, 2007 at 14:29:21:
The Vista room correction does use special test tones in the frequency range that the correction affects. It does not correct from 20-20Khz but only specialized systems do that. For those systems the correction only works for a very small hot spot and makes the sound worse in the rest of the room. Probably not exactly what most people want.Cheers
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I wouldn't trust Microsoft room correction. There are better tools available.As far as switching to Vista, it will have to be demonstrated that is an improvement on XP with ASIO. I wouldn't bother otherwise, since I already know from working on a friend's new laptop that it's a PITA to use. Setting up a remote printer was a nightmare. Clunky, wastes too much memory and CPU.
Thanks for the information.I'll keep playing with the room correction. It's funny because the dominant change I'm getting is to have center of the image shift way over to the right speaker. I have a room that I expect would benefit from correction: 14x14 with a 7 foot ceiling, 7 ft opening on one side wall and a 6 foot window on the other.
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That image shift sounds strange. The room correction compensates for the different distances of your speakers to the seating position.Did you have the microphone in the designated listener position?
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Yes, I was very precise with the mike. The mike was a pretty good quality studio mike with setting for 90 or 120 degrees of dispersion. I'll try a different setting for the mike in Vista and see if that makes any difference.
Try checking the mic connection it might have gone mono w.r.t. to one or other channels hence the center fix jumping.
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