"Sometimes,
in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man
is not crowned the proverbial king, but simply
misunderstood and ignored. CES 2005 seemed, to
me, to mark a turning point. ... The idea of digital
room correction lives on, however, in the form
of the TacT system, which has been c onsiderably
revised since its inception and is now combined
with programmable digital crossovers (including
time delays) and multichannel digital amplification,
so that the whole system can be purely digital,
right up to the speaker. ...
to
listen to the system was to be transported to
the room acoustics of the recording, and, via
the "target curves", the user has control
of the tonal character.
"Few
Exhibits, indeed, could compete with the TacT
system for revealing both the true timbres and
the original acoustics."
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