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Room and Sub EQ 101: How to use parametric EQ to flatten your bass

by Nyal Mellor January 12, 2013

The main focus of this blog article is to show you how easy it is to EQ your room or sub using parametric EQ. 

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Home Theater Calibration 101: Speaker Levels, Distances and Subwoofer Phase

by Nyal Mellor November 29, 2011

This blog article will teach you about home theater calibration - in particular how to calibrate the audio side of your home theater pre-processor (pre-pro) or audio visual receiver (AVR). I'm not going to cover the video side.

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Subwoofer setup and integration 101: sub crossover frequency, slope and phase for two channel systems

by Nyal Mellor October 11, 2011

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Four great reference disks to test your system's bass

by Nyal Mellor April 21, 2011

This weeks blog posts covers some of my favorite disks that I use when I am out at a customer's house diagnosing their room's unique acoustical issues or setting up their system. They have been chosen because they are high quality recordings that contain elements that are useful to test a system's sound quality.

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Room Correction: A Primer

by Nyal Mellor July 01, 2010

Much confusion still exists about what a room correction product does, what problems it can (and cannot) solve and therefore its 'place' in a modern high quality sound reproduction system. Part of the challenge of understanding room correction is that it requires a reasonable level of understanding of sound quality, acoustic science, acoustic measurement and psychoacoustics (how humans perceive sound). By the end of this article I hope that you will have learnt enough to judge for yourself what room correction can and cannot do and how best to apply it in the context of a world class music or home theater system.

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