How did we ever make it without...

rebuy
rebuy Posts: 695
edited November 2011 in Electronics
audyssey or those other correction devices. What would the younger crowd do without it?

We actually had to rely on what sounded good to us.
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  • jbooker82
    jbooker82 Posts: 1,627
    edited November 2011
    Yep and if your part deaf in one ear it sounds odd to everyone else.
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited November 2011
    Actually I don't care much for what MCACC does to the EQ and what not.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited November 2011
    Same way we do now. Use an SPL. Nothing wrong with auto-calibration, but it is good to check. However, I suspect for 99.99% of the population, the auto-calibration software gives better results than manual adjustment. Technological progress is the name of the game. Besides, auto-calibration has only been around for a few years.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited November 2011
    I still live without it and haven't looked back...
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  • GZ
    GZ Posts: 343
    edited November 2011
    We trusted our ears and made adjustments so it sounded good to us. Back in the mid 70's stereo days I had a Soundcraftsman equalizer. It had 10 sliders per side so you could adjust frequency ranges. Man that was fun!
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited November 2011
    Audyssey is great...for home theater. The biggest improvement was how it cleaned up the low end. Can't say I like music through any receiver or pre-pro though.
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited November 2011
    Face wrote: »
    Can't say I like music through any receiver or pre-pro though.

    +1 to that.

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • MrGlobe
    MrGlobe Posts: 401
    edited November 2011
    I've never used auto-eq before so I'm not the most informed, however I am sure I would rather do the setup myself. If I did go through an auto-eq process, I would assuredly have to carefully examine the settings it decided on and see how they line up with my own findings.

    Has anyone set up their HT themselves, and then run the auto-eq to see what changes it made?
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited November 2011
    Face wrote: »
    Audyssey is great...for home theater. The biggest improvement was how it cleaned up the low end. Can't say I like music through any receiver or pre-pro though.
    Auto calibration is a nice feature upgrade that can serve many. However, I fully agree with your post. Makes it easy and efficient for HT but IMHO, far from a good tool for music listening.
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