Re: Bink's EQ shootout?
JR, is there an easy way for a group of us to collectively contact the AES standards committee about this issue? I would gladly spam them into submission about this, and I'm sure others would like to help your cause too, as it is an important issue that does certainly need to be addressed.
I don't know if a few more pings, or even public lobbying would matter. I communicated with the standards manager or whatever, and he ran it up the flag pole in the appropriate technology area, and IIRC the response was yup, there are differences between implementations, then some personal opinion of what that individual used.
If I was still in the business, I would address this with other manufacturers and try to agree among ourselves as to what we would want to use as a standard. I had informal discussions with Dennis Bohn (RANE) and he was very supportive and has addressed the issue on his website support area with some comparison tables. There are probably only a handful of active designers that would even need to agree, to come up with some critical mass agreement for the entire SR industry.
The catch-22 for a manufacturer driven solution is that somebody will end up being correct and somebody (or several somebodies) will be wrong, so it is hard to motivate these guys. Many of us recall the old days when pin 2 hot or pin 3 hot was a company preference. At least with XLRs there was only two choices.
I don't know if Bink, went this far, but I suspect a close read of his data, might come up with small groupings of similar EQ types, since they all call themselves 1/3d octave the solution is to pick one of those groups and call it correct, then make all the others wrong by fiat.
Sorry, if this was easy it would have been fixed years ago from my pointing it out.. Maybe we need something like the original Midi spec, where a few companies put a stake in the ground and said, it is "THIS", then everybody can follow or argue for something different, but for this to work it needs to be several industry heavyweights behind the proposed standard.
or not...
JR
PS: This is kind of like politics with several opposing self-interests, and a common good from agreement, for all of us. That's why I can't be optimistic.
