Recently I´ve mailed Audioholics staff suggesting the creation and upload of some basic test-tones, along with a brief description on how to use each one (sine waves, warble tones, pink noise -L/R, Mono, stereo-, etc.).
I believe it would be very useful to have access to that stuff.
The response to my question was, in fact, very wise: I was asked with some new questions -posted below-, and encouraged to start this post, to see if at least some of you agree with me.
Now, to the questions:
1. Regarding your suggestion, please tell me how you think it would work?
A: We would download the tones, burn them, and use the CDs or DVDs to calibrate our system.
2. Would people interface their PC with their hometheater systems?
A. I don´t think so, at least at present time and in my country (Argentina).
3. Is the purpose of this for calibrating your system?
A: Yes
4. Why not just use Avia or equivalent DVD?
A: Because for some of us who live in third-world countries, it´s very difficult to get such a DVD (There´s no local store selling any of that, and our customs charge so much for importing fees, the final price would be almost tripled -shipping charges included-). Besides that, for currency-exchange reasons, for argentine people every dollar has to be multiplied by 3.
That´s how the disc would cost me about 9 times its value!.
* Older stereo music systems don´t accept DVDs
Comments, anyone?
