TACT Digital Room Correction

[Sleestack]

After my pleasant experience with the room correction features on my Velo. DD-15 and a recent thread on equalization, I decided to order the TACT RCS 2.2.x. Does anyone have experience with Tact products or similar products?

 

[j_garcia]

How much is the TACT?

 

[Spiffyfast]

digital room correction just sounds expensive to me, but thats me and not someone else, I'm sure it will be very beneficial

 

[Sleestack]

I'm particularly interested b/c I think I can place the Tact between a transport and a DAC, to modify the signal before the analog ouput stage. Essentially though, I think it is a fancy EQ (with a preamp).

The Tact is about $3K. I spend about 8 hours a day listening to 2 channel music, so I think it would be a good investment.

 

[Spiffyfast]

Thats a long time listening to music and if it improves your sound it could prove to be a great investment, whats the worst that could happen, you find out you dont like it and then return it.

 

[j_garcia]

$3k?! Sounds like a lot to me. How many channels? Got a link?

A BFD is $100. SPL meter and cables will still have it around $250-300 I think, and will let you tame most any major room issues (just not automatically ).

 

[miklorsmith]

Check it!

There are several owners over at AC that wouldn't part with them if they had to choose between the TacT and their mothers.

 

[mazurek]

I do the same thing you do. Got the pc serving lossless music to the behringer deq 2496 to the benchmark dac.

The behringer has equalization and a real time analysis thing. There is a companion microphone, and it has an auto-eq feature where it plays pink noise and equalizes the room response.

I don't know why you would spend so much if you are doing digital into the equalizer and digital out of the equalizer. I don't see how there can be a huge quality difference with yours, besides slightly differing algorithms. Even if you need the preamplifier feature, just get a benchmark dac, they cost 1000 dollars, and have volume control. I guess the Tact has slightly better specs.

I like your idea though.

 

[Sleestack]

I do the same thing you do. Got the pc serving lossless music to the behringer deq 2496 to the benchmark dac.

The behringer has equalization and a real time analysis thing. There is a companion microphone, and it has an auto-eq feature where it plays pink noise and equalizes the room response.

I don't know why you would spend so much if you are doing digital into the equalizer and digital out of the equalizer. I don't see how there can be a huge quality difference with yours, besides slightly differing algorithms. Even if you need the preamplifier feature, just get a benchmark dac, they cost 1000 dollars, and have volume control. I guess the Tact has slightly better specs.

I like your idea though.

I already have multiple DACs and just ordered the TEAC Esoteric D-70 DAC.

The reason I am going digital in and digital out is b/c I want all the correction done before it gets to the TEAC DAC, so that the analog ouput goes straight from the DAC into a different pre-amp. From what I understand, the TACT software is some of the best out there, but I'll find out soon enough.

 

[mazurek]

Well, enjoy it. I agree with your methods all the way, I just use the poorer man's version.

Digital in to the eq, digital out to the dac is definitely the way to go. I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear, I definitely agree with you. I just hope your equipment's user interface and algorithms are awesome for the additional money. Its not the best, but I don't mind using the Behringer's small front panel display, and it has spdif in/out.

I hope to earn street cred with WMAx for mentioning Behringer 3 times

 

[Rob Babcock]

There are several owners over at AC that wouldn't part with them if they had to choose between the TacT and their mothers.

Yeah, there's a few guys there with pretty nice rigs using either TACT or DEQX.