Originally Posted By: Dunedain
Well, that must mean that any receiver with this Trinnov system (like the new Sherwood Newcastle R-972 and the upcoming 998), in addition to being able to automatically set the correct trim dB levels for Dolby Digital Reference Level calibration of all your speakers, must also have full range equalizer hardware built into the receiver that can compensate for room interactions that can cause peaks and dips in the frequency response of your speakers at the listening position.

This means you could place the microphone at the listening position, turn on the Trinnov setup routine, leave the room, and when you come back, all speakers, subwoofer included, are now calibrated to Dolby Digital Reference Level and all the speakers are delivering a pretty flat frequency response all across the whole range of frequencies. From your tweeters in your main speakers to your subwoofer. That's pretty impressive, if it actually works that well. smile

Yes, that's correct. The Model 990 already offers the ability to automatically calibrate all speakers' distances and levels to reference, but it doesn't include an EQ. Trinnov should be a significant step forward from that. We've seen receivers and processors with this sort of EQ hardware for a number of years now (Audyssey, MCACC, YPAO, and other systems). Trinnov is supposed to take what other systems offer and take it a step further by both providing a good EQ with spatial re-mapping (compensating for speaker positions that aren't optimal, such as a center channel that's too high or low or surrounds that are not symmetrical).


Edited by gonk (03/29/10 06:44 AM)
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