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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 84812" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Looking for the chart that converts XILICA or others to othersI think you may be giving the manufacturers too much credit. If anything they do enjoy some benefit from the babel since they offer a curve preset that works accurately with &quot;their&quot; brand DSP platform. Using somebody else&#039;s DSP platform comes with translation error risk. It is fair to ASSume that accurate speaker equalization should sound better than inaccurate equalization. More so in the early days than now, but DSP was a little like black magic to mostly analog companies so algorithm design and BW definitions often hinged on some outside consultant or resident in house expert&#039;s inclination, or how he learned to do it. Establishing standards will create instant winners and losers, so ideally this would need to be worked out between those winners and losers to minimize economic pain. Not as binary as the pin 2/pin 3 hot standard reached a wile back, but it will be painful for some, so not trivial. I was working for a company on the losing side of the pin 2 hot standard, so no completely painless way to pick only one. FWIW long before that XLR pin standard I argued for clear publication of what XLR polarity standard a given product used. The problem is not so much the different approaches, but not knowing who is using what approach (and how they differ) so we can translate between them.&nbsp; JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 84812, member: 126"] Re: Looking for the chart that converts XILICA or others to others I think you may be giving the manufacturers too much credit. If anything they do enjoy some benefit from the babel since they offer a curve preset that works accurately with "their" brand DSP platform. Using somebody else's DSP platform comes with translation error risk. It is fair to ASSume that accurate speaker equalization should sound better than inaccurate equalization. More so in the early days than now, but DSP was a little like black magic to mostly analog companies so algorithm design and BW definitions often hinged on some outside consultant or resident in house expert's inclination, or how he learned to do it. Establishing standards will create instant winners and losers, so ideally this would need to be worked out between those winners and losers to minimize economic pain. Not as binary as the pin 2/pin 3 hot standard reached a wile back, but it will be painful for some, so not trivial. I was working for a company on the losing side of the pin 2 hot standard, so no completely painless way to pick only one. FWIW long before that XLR pin standard I argued for clear publication of what XLR polarity standard a given product used. The problem is not so much the different approaches, but not knowing who is using what approach (and how they differ) so we can translate between them. JR [/QUOTE]

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