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For anyone reading this, the experience of walking into a room and being struck by the dramatic change in its sound
after carpet and furnishings have been moved out is probably a familiar one. It may also bring to mind the varying sound
character from one room to the next according to its size and structural qualities.
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speakers, Anthem Room Correction measures the output of each one relative to the listening area then through a
special series of calculations adjusts the output accordingly. Its target responses have a psychoacoustic basis from
research results, not just theoretically ideal curves.
While removing resonances and modal peaks common to the measurement positions, ARC also distinguishes and
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indoors. Ideal anechoic speaker response, as measured in a special non-reverberant facility, is not the same as ideal
in-room response, which normally includes this room gain to varying degree. It is one reason that a speaker sounds
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outdoors, it just wouldn’t sound right.
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whereas the green ones show response with equalization applied. In this case a subwoofer and bass management are
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shows the amount of room gain.
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match this natural limit.
The default correction range is 5 kHz. Although it can be changed to a lower frequency if desired, raising it is not
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depends on what the other channels send to it as determined by their crossover setting. The subwoofer graph shows the
available correction range, which is not necessarily the range that other channels send to it through bass management.
ANTHEM ROOM CORRECTION (ARC)
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