Re: Topics suggestions for advanced system tech and tuning class
Hopefully some of the interplay of how Bennett and I view the "seasoning" differently, as well as the participants' input, will provide some of the best added value, and increase the mental flexibility of how people attack problems. I desire (and expect) the class participants to interact with us, participate in taking measurements, and take a stab at answering impromptu questions posed to them. For the pace of instruction, we understandably need attendees to be comfortable with the interface of their measurement platform of choice, but any other question or curiosity they want to ask is always fair game.
This is an important point. Measurement does not function in isolation of the speaker(s) being measured, and the more you understand how speakers function, the more you will understand the measurement traces on your screen.
This statement is a great example of how Bennett and I think about the world of audio differently. Bennett moves directly to the end importance of the phase trace, and I think more about how the magnitude and phase are tied together, and how the magnitude response must be well behaved to produce good phase response.
In the instructional setting, attendees can choose to think about my more nuanced perspective, or they can latch on to Bennett's bottom-line principle. We realize some people want to learn "why" and some people want to learn "how." We would include a mix of both.
Often-times there are a number of ways to approach improving the on-screen behavior of a measurement in Smaart/Systune/Sim3/Arta/etc. Not all of these methods will result in uniform improvement at every seat, and sometimes will worsen the sound system at other points in the room. We want to help attendees pick the most appropriate technique to solve problems for the greatest fraction of the coverage area.
Precisely.
