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TacT Room Correction System processors

Anybody have any experience they'd like to comment on with regards to the TacT digital room correction processor? The Tact is similar in function to Perpetual Technology's perpetually promised room correction processor. Any other digital room correction processors out there on the market? (Note -- a room correction processor is much more than a a garden-variety equalizer; it measures the speaker/room impulse response and applies its inverse to the signal, nullifying colorations and resonances imparted by the speaker and room. An RCS may be thought of as a "super"-equalizer in that equalizes both amplitude and delay at all frequencies in exceedingly small resolution bands far smaller than an EQ's typical 1/3 octave bands.)
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mouse516d
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Sigtech makes several. I have not auditioned any, however.
pls1
432 posts
 
I own the Sigtech and have hade the Tact unit in my room. I the room response (impluse and MLSSA) independently measured by and audio engineer. The Sigtech was far smoother. It also sounded better. I thing the Tact would be best for five channel HT. I have Dunlavy SC-v and the combination with the Sigtech is awesome.
1439bhr OP
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Cornfedboy: thanks for the lead. The Accuphase DG-28 appears to be a very high quality automated graphic equalizer, but it doesn't look like it does true impulse response correction, just steady state frequency response correction (i.e., it adjusts amplitude but not phase of the speaker/room transfer function). As such it doesn't do a complete job of cleaning up transient effects such as room reflections and reverberations. Mouse and Pls1: thanks, the Sigtech Time Field correction processor is exactly the sort of thing I'm after. Unfortunately, their web site is a bit bolloxed up and the link to their home audio products is dead.
pls1
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To 1439bhr. There web site is a joke but give them a call. The usual deal is that they will send a rep with a unit who will do full impulse measurements and ten install the unit in your system. They will charge you a consulting fee of $100/hour for four hours. If you order one they apply the 400 to the price. If you are seriously interested I would be happy to talk to you. I've posted extensively on this on other threads. For large scale orchestral music, organ or bass heavy techno the results are quite astonishing.
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alexc
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Plsl - Do they have a "viable" solution for analog? The only thing holding me back is that I listen to a lot of LP's and don't quite cherish the thought of the analog signal being digitized, "massaged", then converted to analog again. But..maybe it does less harm than good...
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