Audioholics...Please review Obsessive Compulsive Audiophile's A1 Evo Audyssey Optimization Tool!

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The Commish

Audiophyte
You’ll have to remeasure after uploading to the AVR to see what the effect is.
True, but the real test lies in between your ears.

Listen and experience, then look at what was done via graphs.

I don't get the resistance from people just experiencing the change and then diving deep to see the changes.
 
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navid0308

Audiophyte
You’ll have to remeasure after uploading to the AVR to see what the effect is. The creators of the automatic adjustment tool should have given such an example, in my opinion.
I don’t think I’ve seen any room correction software take measurements post calibration to show you the results.

many, including myself, have taken before and after measurements. It definitely doesn’t look as nice and smooth as audyssey but it actually sounds a lot better. I would say the approach is more “correct”, evo uses EQ to knock down modal peaks and brute force searches all delay options for best subwoofer integration.

one neat trick evo does in certain cases is lfe+main - since evo doesn’t boost, it uses lfe+main and rolls off the mains in a variable fashion so the mains only fill in the dips of the sub response. It’ll make you question what you know, believe me. If you can’t get past the prejudice of using large/lfe+main, evo also provides options to optimize in a more traditional manner.

As previously mentioned, thousands use it, a lot of comparisons have been made with Dirac and a lot of folks ended up preferring it over Dirac. If you’re skeptical, that’s fine, but try it, it’s free and has been through enough revisions that if it was gonna blow up avrs, it would’ve done so by now.
 
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EB1000

Audiophyte
I heard about this but TBH, I prefer Audyssey PC and using manual biquads to refine bass response and shelve fullrange correction below the point where Audyssey diverged from normal speaker response. I then use shelving filters to tilt treble to taste depending on room acoustics. This process usually takes me a 2-3 hours but the results are consistently excellent. Not sure I want to mess with installing unsanctioned ver of Audyssey into a $7500 prepro.

I will ask Marantz about this.
Seriously? I have a feeling that D&M has asked Gene not to promote A1 EVO to prevent further financial damages they've already sustained when many users discovered that the free A1 EVO outperforms D&M's useless MultiEQ-X. A1 EVO is 100% safe because there is nothing it can do that cannot be undone by a factory reset...

This sounds like a lousy excuse because Gene could always use an older/cheaper AVR to test EVO w/o "endangering" his $7500 AVP...

This is why I can't really trust most of Audioholics' manufacturer-provided gear-based reviews because chances are that they're more of biased paid promotions rather than objective reviews.
 
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The Commish

Audiophyte
Seriously? I have a feeling that D&M has asked Gene not to promote A1 EVO to prevent further financial damages they've already sustained when many users discovered that the free A1 EVO outperforms D&M's useless MultiEQ-X. A1 EVO is 100% safe because there is nothing it can do that cannot be undone by a factory reset...

This sounds like a lousy excuse because Gene could always use an older/cheaper AVR to test EVO w/o "endangering" his $7500 AVP...

This is why I can't really trust most of Audioholics' manufacturer-provided gear-based reviews because chances are that they're more of biased paid promotions rather than objective reviews.
It's going to get worse.
Reviewers will be held liable now with a passage of a new law that goes into effect in October.
Now it's give me product, tell me what to say and keep it moving.
 

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