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Post by hosko on Dec 23, 2016 19:28:33 GMT -5
im very curious about the layout. Looks like i have to wait for a couple of weeks. You havent seen the pics posted earlier?    |
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Post by djoel on Dec 23, 2016 19:35:04 GMT -5
im very curious about the layout. Looks like i have to wait for a couple of weeks. You havent seen the pics posted earlier?  That thing is a sure beast, and if they can keep it at 5K it will be a giant slayer from anything from 30k on down! The possibility are staggering indeed! |
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Post by rhale64 on Dec 23, 2016 19:38:21 GMT -5
Yes it should be a giant Slayer. But what are the wide channels for? I just assumed it was going to have 6 height channels.
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Post by rhale64 on Dec 23, 2016 19:40:45 GMT -5
And I hadn't seen the second pic down.
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Post by Jim on Dec 23, 2016 21:34:34 GMT -5
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Post by Jim on Dec 23, 2016 21:35:37 GMT -5
And I hadn't seen the second pic down. Me neither. Cool! |
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Post by yves on Dec 23, 2016 21:58:15 GMT -5
Yes it should be a giant Slayer. But what are the wide channels for? I just assumed it was going to have 6 height channels. It will have a total of 16 channels so assuming 6 height channels you could still get wide channels as part of the 9.1 surround layer. Or get 6 height channels plus the 7.1 surround layer when the wide channels have been reassigned to 2 subwoofer channels allowing 3 subwoofers to be filtered individually in Dirac Unison. |
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Post by skiman1 on Dec 23, 2016 22:36:23 GMT -5
Getting all our print stuff together for CES and working on some RMC things right now. This thing looks badass. Can't wait for you guys to see what it looks like when we officially launch the design during CES! I interpret 'launch the design' to mean that it won't be a fully functioning unit at CES. Hopefully the specs will be released at that time.
Dirac Unison will be the icing on the cake.
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Post by hosko on Dec 24, 2016 2:06:06 GMT -5
I will bet they have a working version, if they have already taken the beauty pics of the boards and had a frame months ago and it runs similar code to the XMC1. I would say they have a working version.
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Post by Albert on Dec 24, 2016 2:35:36 GMT -5
Getting all our print stuff together for CES and working on some RMC things right now. This thing looks badass. Can't wait for you guys to see what it looks like when we officially launch the design during CES! I interpret 'launch the design' to mean that it won't be a fully functioning unit at CES. Hopefully the specs will be released at that time.
Dirac Unison will be the icing on the cake.
Isnt Dirac Unison being used in cars only? not home theater.. |
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Post by yves on Dec 24, 2016 3:30:56 GMT -5
I interpret 'launch the design' to mean that it won't be a fully functioning unit at CES. Hopefully the specs will be released at that time.
Dirac Unison will be the icing on the cake.
Isnt Dirac Unison being used in cars only? not home theater.. June 5, 2014 Dirac Unison sound optimization technology sets the bar for automotive and high performance audio manufacturers seeking to deliver a lifelike listening experience to consumers.Uppsala, Sweden - Audio technology provider Dirac today announced the unveiling of Dirac Unison, a highly advanced sound optimization technology for automotive applications as well as high performance audio and home theater systems. Read more: www.dirac.com/news/2016/2/11/introducing-dirac-unison-an-entirely-new-approach-to-sound-optimization |
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Post by cwt on Dec 24, 2016 4:23:50 GMT -5
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Post by yves on Dec 24, 2016 4:45:27 GMT -5
“What you notice with Dirac is that the room modes are corrected, the aberrations in the frequency response in the frequency domain are corrected, and that’s kind of what everybody does,” said Dan Laufman, founder of Emotiva Audio, a Dirac licensee. “But when you get this time-domain correction in the listening window, all of a sudden there’s a three dimensionality and a cohesiveness to the imaging that’s almost palpable. I hear this from customers over and over again; they all comment to me how the soundstage is so coherent across the front, and how natural it sounds. This I really believe has to do with their time-domain correction.” From: www.residentialsystems.com/audio/0009/the-perfect-room/87916In a recent publication, a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output(MIMO) approach to room compensation by the use of support loudspeakers was proposed and evaluated for a varying number of support loudspeakers [9]. It was shown that the effect of the room acoustics can be completely controlled up to a certain frequency, which is determined by factors such as, e.g., the number of loudspeakers, the size of the room and the sweet spot, and the granularity of the grid of measurement positions. In the present paper we shall investigate how the MIMO framework can be used to variably control the contribution of the listening room acoustics throughout a spatial region where the listener is located. By allowing the support loudspeakers to help the primary loudspeakers (e.g., the left and right speakers in a stereo system) to a higher or lesser degree, we can obtain a range of different equalizers that, to corresponding degrees, suppress the room acoustics while the direct sound of the primary loudspeakers is enhanced. From: www.computeraudiophile.com/f23-dsp-room-correction-and-multi-channel-audio/dirac-unison-23780That said, the idea of "support loudspeakers" does have a few similarities with Dr. Earl Geddes' approach to using multiple subwoofers, where he describes the concept of "helper subwoofers". Initially the Geddes approach did not include any EQ. Another approach to using multiple subs is called Sound Field Management, which is the basis of what Harman uses. It is based on important research work done by Todd Welti and Allan Devantier, and introduces the benefit of not just EQ-ing multiple subwoofers, but rather, EQ-ing them individually instead. What Dirac Unison does is it takes the time-domain correction a significant leap further, and in part does so by taking new insights gained from both "helper subwoofers" and "individually EQ'd multiple subwoofers" into serious innovative consideration. But I should add that time-domain correction is not solely related to room correction software from Dirac. Which brings the whole discussion back to time-smear corrections of... let me think just a moment... Master Quality Authenticated. |
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Post by yves on Dec 24, 2016 5:43:25 GMT -5
I much prefer the baseball term of having all the bas(s)es covered. Bluntly, seeing as the majority of movie content is still only 5.1 what are people going to do with 16 channels, if not using them for helper speakers and helper subs, AND... what are people going to do with aforementioned next gen time-domain corrections, if not using them in tandem with next gen time-domain corrections inherent of MQA (something about the "weakest link" springs to mind). |
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Post by hosko on Dec 24, 2016 7:20:48 GMT -5
I much prefer the baseball term of having all the bas(s)es covered. Bluntly, seeing as the majority of movie content is still only 5.1 what are people going to do with 16 channels, if not using them for helper speakers and helper subs, AND... what are people going to do with aforementioned next gen time-domain corrections, if not using them in tandem with next gen time-domain corrections inherent of MQA (something about the "weakest link" springs to mind). Most new releases are at least 7.1, there are more new releases in the object based audio formats than 5.1. Do you build a system for the past or future? |
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Post by Dan Laufman on Dec 24, 2016 8:47:07 GMT -5
Well kids,
We've got all of the systems for the RMC-1 up and running... which was a massive effort on our teams part. I'm incredibly proud of their work!
So, we planned on having a working demo at CES, but sadly, ADI has not finished porting the Dolby or DTS codecs into the new hot rod Sharc processors we're running in the RMC. We're the first company to actually get these these parts and they are incredibly powerful. The code was supposed to be ready a while ago and we were given assurances that all was well until just recently. The best laid plans, and all that. 😥
So, we're not packing up the cool ceiling speaker set up that John and Lonnie designed... bummer.
Anyway, we'll be at CES with an inside look at the new RMC-1 and we'll be showing the real chassis design to the world for the first time!! It has some very sweet features we haven't talked about yet!!!
Yes, I admit it, we've been playing with you all a little bit. The RMC-1 photos that were leaked were not actually the unit. This was the test mule chassis. 😳
Remember, the RMC-1 is our flagship processor and it will look the part. And I promise, it'll sell for less that $20k!!! 😝
It's gonna be a great year!!
Peace,
BIg Dan
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Post by rhale64 on Dec 24, 2016 10:19:23 GMT -5
Wow! This is great news. I sure wish the firmware would have been done though. But I know that stuff takes time. These new DSP's must be the real deal. I can't wait to read more about it at CES. I can't believe you folks were actually packing up speakers to take with it. That says it is a lot further along than any of us had thought. Great job and put a boot up them software engineer's butts.  |
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Post by mgbpuff on Dec 24, 2016 11:25:30 GMT -5
First to break the 11 channel immersive barrier (except for prima donna Lyngdorf and Trinnov). If you drop Auro 3D, you won't need speaker remapping and that should allow you to get well under the prima donna brands, (I'm hoping for no more than $5K tops).
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Post by tchaik on Dec 24, 2016 11:47:39 GMT -5
Well kids, We've got all of the systems for the RMC-1 up and running... which was a massive effort on our teams part. I'm incredibly proud of their work! So, we planned on having a working demo at CES, but sadly, ADI has not finished porting the Dolby or DTS codecs into the new hot rod Sharc processors we're running in the RMC. We're the first company to actually get these these parts and they are incredibly powerful. The code was supposed to be ready a while ago and we were given assurances that all was well until just recently. The best laid plans, and all that. 😥 So, we're not packing up the cool ceiling speaker set up that John and Lonnie designed... bummer. Anyway, we'll be at CES with an inside look at the new RMC-1 and we'll be showing the real chassis design to the world for the first time!! It has some very sweet features we haven't talked about yet!!! Yes, I admit it, we've been playing with you all a little bit. The RMC-1 photos that were leaked were not actually the unit. This was the test mule chassis. 😳 Remember, the RMC-1 is our flagship processor and it will look the part. And I promise, it'll sell for less that $20k!!! 😝 It's gonna be a great year!! Peace, BIg Dan |
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Post by tchaik on Dec 24, 2016 11:48:24 GMT -5
Well kids, We've got all of the systems for the RMC-1 up and running... which was a massive effort on our teams part. I'm incredibly proud of their work! So, we planned on having a working demo at CES, but sadly, ADI has not finished porting the Dolby or DTS codecs into the new hot rod Sharc processors we're running in the RMC. We're the first company to actually get these these parts and they are incredibly powerful. The code was supposed to be ready a while ago and we were given assurances that all was well until just recently. The best laid plans, and all that. 😥 So, we're not packing up the cool ceiling speaker set up that John and Lonnie designed... bummer. Anyway, we'll be at CES with an inside look at the new RMC-1 and we'll be showing the real chassis design to the world for the first time!! It has some very sweet features we haven't talked about yet!!! Yes, I admit it, we've been playing with you all a little bit. The RMC-1 photos that were leaked were not actually the unit. This was the test mule chassis. 😳 Remember, the RMC-1 is our flagship processor and it will look the part. And I promise, it'll sell for less that $20k!!! 😝 It's gonna be a great year!! Peace, BIg Dan looking forward to seeing it at axpona in april……….. |
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