B&K 307 Review- Does this sound familiar? (1 Viewer)

[Aslam Imran]

Here is an excerpt from a review of the 307 published in the 'secrets of HT and high fidelity':

Sound familiar? does any one know of other products that can do this apart from 49tx?

 

[Michael Yung]

Harman AVR 220 and higher receivers all have a similar feature call EzSet.

 

[Camp]

The Parasound AVC-2500 does it too.

However, I understand Pioneer's system is leaps and bounds beyond anything done before.

 

[Gifford L]

Auto set-up of levels and delay like the HK and parasound are not what is going on here. He is talking about DSP room correction for nasty room modes. Auto set up would be nice but I wonder how accurate it can be in a sub 3K product. I mean to say that a descent Mic is expensive and so are RTA's. So I wonder how accurate you can be here with what has got to be a $10 mic. What I would like is both options.

B&K introduced room correction in a receiver and I have heard that their new Gucci series may be taking this much further. Hopefully a lot of companies will take this much further.

 

[Mark Austin]

I REALLY like the B&K AVR 305/307. In fact, I'm going to have to get one soon.

 

[Jay Morrissette]

My concern would be that you would just be creating a sweet spot in the room, and then perhaps making the rest worse than when you started.

I suppose that if you had the ability to move the mic to a bunch of different places and the processor could then average it's adjustments to make the whole room sound good.

~Jay

 

[RichardMA]

My Sony TA-E9000ES processor has a microphone input.
Too bad they never saw fit to do any software to
take advantage of it.

 

[Tung Enkhych]

Frankly ,I don't like the measuring equipment being inside the rcvr, I just trust certain RTA's ,etc. more than others... and the adjusting I prefer to be done manually rather than automatically ,given that most rooms have several problems, I prefer to "tame" the one(s) I feel will matter most....also I like measuring from several differant locations...........As I recall the experiance with some equipment like this has prooven to be "nightmarish"

 

[RajeeK]

There are such products that do this, however, it would be nice to see it in a mass market receiver !

Hmmmm....it is in a mass market receiver. Sad that they write this type of thing with the 49TX/47TX out there right now that do exactly this. Makes me questions their real knowledge of products out in the market presently.

 

[Kevin C Brown]

I use the manual method:
a CD test disc
a Radio Shack sound meter
a high quality analog parametric EQ for my mains
a high quality digital EQ for my sub
Takes a bit longer than an automated system, but at least I know exactly what the "modifications" are!

 

[RichardMA]

Kevin said:

"I use the manual method:

a CD test disc
a Radio Shack sound meter
a high quality analog parametric EQ for my mains
a high quality digital EQ for my sub

Takes a bit longer than an automated system, but at least I know exactly what the "modifications" are!"


So do I and I agree with you, except I use the digital
para eq. in the preamp for the main/centre/surrounds.

 

[Mark Austin]

RajeeK,

Hmmmm....it is in a mass market receiver.

The 49tx has a microphone? And, I'm not sure I would consider the 49 or 47 a "mass market" receiver.

 

[Aslam Imran]

The 49tx has a microphone? And, I'm not sure I would consider the 49 or 47 a "mass market" receiver

Not a mass market product? Why not?

 

[RajeeK]

The 49tx has a microphone?

Yes it does. I would consider it mass market, along with Denon's, Onkyo's and others flagships out there.

 

[Kevin C Brown]

The 49tx lists for $4200. Don't think I'd quite consider that "mass market" !

 

[Mark Austin]

I didn't know the 49 had a microphone, that's way cool.

As far as the mass market goes, I don't think any of the flagships are mass market. In a city of 1 million I have 1 maybe 2 places where I can purchase one, and the price alone sets it away from the masses. JMO.

 

[RajeeK]

The 49tx lists for $4200.

MSRP is useless to quote. You can easily get a 49TX for $2400. As far as mass market, well I guess that's just a matter of opinion. To me at least, if larger chain store carries the unit, such as Good Guys, Circuit City I think it is mass market.

 

[Arthur S]

And another thing. The 47TX has MCACC and streets for about $600 less, so, about $1,800.

Artie

 

[Mark Austin]

Good Guys and Circuit City carry the 49? Mine don't. I would agree that of they did it would be mass market, but as far as I know in most places you must go to a B&M store to check one out. I may be wrong, but that has been my experience.

 

[RajeeK]

Good Guys carries Denon and Circuit City Carries Onkyo with their Flagship models on display. I have at least 4-5 stores within 15 minutes of my house that I can get the Pioneer from.