News and Reviews

Denon 4311 hits the stores. 9.2 channels, MultEQ XT32 (not 21 as the article states), 7 HDMI outputs, "Pre Amp Mode" and Audyssey's new Sub EQ HT which equalizes two discrete subs.

Automatic speaker setup and calibration systems handle the basics like determining the sizes of all the speakers, setting speaker and subwoofer volume levels and the speaker-subwoofer crossover point, measuring the distances from the speakers to the listener, and checking that all of the speaker cables are correctly hooked up. Some autosetup systems such as Audyssey also employ equalization to balance the frequency response of all the speakers, and they try to minimize room acoustic problems.

Audyssey Laboratories, a California based company specializing in technologies that address acoustical problems in professsional audio and home theatre systems today announced the latest version of its MultiEQ room equalization technology.

Los Angeles - Audyssey Labs is expanding its portfolio of audio-processing technologies for TV sets, portable devices and mobile devices with the launch of Audyssey Volume Extension, said to double the volume delivered by small speakers without increasing audible distortion.

A new flagship room-correction technology developed by Audyssey Labs for home audio components delivers 32-times the resolution of MultEQ XT technology with the same processing power.

Big Picture Big Sound writes: Audyssey and Sharp Electronics Corporation have delivered the fruits of their recent collaboration in Sharp's new high-definition home-theater-in-a-box, the BD-MPC41U Blu-ray Home Theater System.

Best Buy’s bargain brand, Insignia, is offering a new 5.1 home theater system with Audyssey technology, yes, Audyssey. We love Audyssey.

Best Buy Co., Inc. today announced the new Insignia 5.1 Home Theater System with Audyssey audio technology, a complete home audio system from Insignia. Available exclusively at Best Buy, the reasonably priced Home Theater system offers consumers all of the components needed to experience movie theater sound quality in their homes.

Brent Butterworth at Sound and Vision writes about Onkyo’s latest user-friendly system that combines multiple technologies into one unit. "Both effects [rattling glasses and bullets whizzing] sounded extraordinarily realistic in 9.2-channel Audyssey DSX. In fact, I can’t remember any home theater audio presentation that so powerfully conveyed the perils of warfare. This is my second experience with DSX, and at this point I can safely say I’m sold."

"After I used the standard calibration for about a week, I performed the Audyssey MultEQ Pro calibration. The results were what I expected, and the Audyssey MultEQ Pro calibration continues to add more depth to music and more apparent resolution to the lower end of movie soundtracks…Integra once again serves up a winner. "