Re: An excellent in-dept look on Systune.
Are you planning to do sub alignments repeatedly all day long?? To be quite frank, someone who knows how to read the phase curve properly (with plenty of practice) can do a sub alignment pretty darn quick, almost as quick as what the Delay analysis function does in Systune!
Then again, with most systems I optimize, there's only one or at the most two subwoofer alignments to be done for the day, so the time savings is negligible. With a phase curve I can see a whole lot more of what's going on in aligning different parts of a system. You do realize you can use the phase curve for a lot more than just sub alignments, right? So why not invest your energy into learning as much as you can to harness this powerful (and mostly underused) tool? You'll be a better system optimizer because of it. But that's just my humble opinion, take it for what it's worth.
Web interface? I use an iPad and Studio Six Digital's iRemote or Splashtop remote, the latter for well over a year, works great with Smaart and a decent wifi connection.
TFC windowing? Smaart has MTW. Kinda like someone likes chocolate vs vanilla ice cream. Take your pick.
SSA filter? Very cool, though I do perfectly fine with magnitude thresholding and the coherence trace, and chasing the lampies and custodians out of the room with a well timed sine sweep!
Their Aubion interface looks really cool though it only has four mic pre's. I have eight mic pre's with my Roland Octa-Capture, and I spent half the money of just one interface. The more mic pre's, the merrier IMHO. I'm thinking of adding a second Octa-Capture for 16 mic pre's.......because I can!!!
User friendly interface? Smaart wins hands down. Mac compatibility? No competition.
Acoustical measurements? Smaart 7.4 is imminent (hopefully this week), and gives you a lot of the goodness of Smaart Acoustic Tools without the hefty price tag. It's a free upgrade for you.
Disclaimer: I'm an instructor for the competing product you mentioned, and get compensated doing so. The writer of that article you linked to is an instructor for Systune, and get compensated the same way as well. So filter both points of view with your bias filter!
Edit: Peculiar that at the end of the article, it mentions what the author does for a living, but conveniently neglects to mention that he's an instructor for SysTune. Just sayin'!!!
