I calibrated a very impressive 5.1.2 home cinema system comprising of the new KEF R7 speakers for front channels with the matching R2C Centre speaker, this was accompanied by 4 SVS Prime Elevation speakers for surrounds and height speakers for Dolby Atmos all powered from an Arcam AVR850. The customer is using an SVS SB3000 subwoofer and wow what a beast of a sub that is with very small dimensions. His sources were varied Sony UHD Blu Ray Player, Sky Q and a BlueSound Node for music streaming duties. For display the customer is using a 65″ LG C8 OLED and due to room having very small dimensions the customer is sitting up close and personal to a display of this quality was a very pleasing experience showing just how good OLED really is. The customer had installed several acoustic panels from GIK acoustics to improve reduce the natural echo in the room.
For the calibration the customer wanted the system to be equally good for music as movies, he also likes a lot of bass which is no bad thing 🙂
I started the calibration taking quality measurements to give me a platform to work from, from there I started the calibration focusing on the 2 channel performance of the system to dial in a balance the customer was happy with. I introduced the subwoofer for music to increase the bass impact at the customers request and used Dirac to set a sonic balance and integration between the sub and KEF main speakers to the customers preference which created a sonic target for me to use the calibrate the sound for home cinema.
I then calibrated the system for home cinema performance keeping this sonic balance but building on it achieving a totally cohesive and detailed sound field, with ferocious, very impactful, tight and articulate bass with fantastic overhead Dolby Atmos presence and vocal clarity from the centre speaker. The end result was really something with the system and room sounding much bigger than their physical size and I really made something of this system – movies on this system are now sounding epic like they should be, all in a very small room.
For the calibration the customer wanted the system to be equally good for music as movies, he also likes a lot of bass which is no bad thing 🙂
I started the calibration taking quality measurements to give me a platform to work from, from there I started the calibration focusing on the 2 channel performance of the system to dial in a balance the customer was happy with. I introduced the subwoofer for music to increase the bass impact at the customers request and used Dirac to set a sonic balance and integration between the sub and KEF main speakers to the customers preference which created a sonic target for me to use the calibrate the sound for home cinema.
I then calibrated the system for home cinema performance keeping this sonic balance but building on it achieving a totally cohesive and detailed sound field, with ferocious, very impactful, tight and articulate bass with fantastic overhead Dolby Atmos presence and vocal clarity from the centre speaker. The end result was really something with the system and room sounding much bigger than their physical size and I really made something of this system – movies on this system are now sounding epic like they should be, all in a very small room.