Hello all,
I have been reading a lot about Bass EQ for Filtered Movies and I am trying to see if the concept applies to K material from the store. As I understand it, the theory is that the studios will rolloff of filter the bass tracks as part of post-production. (I don't know why. Perhaps someone here does?) This can sometimes result in the audio track not have the same "punch" you would expect during certain parts of the movie. To adjust for this, there was a community driven effort to create filters to bring these scenes back to life. It started with folks using the miniDSP hardware and applying customer filters in-line with the subs. Ive heard some of the demo clips and the results were indeed impressive. Now some processors can support these filters directly (mine does).
With that said, I noticed most of the filters are created off of the original disc content, which makes sense given the availability and popularity. (Meaning, I didn't expect a lot of these to be built from a K system).
Since the original Bass EQ (BEQ) stuff went somewhat stagnant, there is a very active community at AVS that is now maintaining the titles, the software etc. I asked the following question over there, and I am curious what this group thinks.
1. If the source is a Kaleidescape system which is playing an uncompressed / "original" from the studio file, are the benefits of BEQ still there? The audio quality of the same title from a K system is noticeably improved from streaming, and in many cases, over the disc. One of their selling points is the fact that the audio is left untouched and is full spectrum from the studio.
2. If the above answer is "yes", then I wonder how applying the BEQ file that was built off of a disc or streamed audio source would impact the K audio source. I ask because I read the commentary about being careful on mixing Atmos, DTS-HD, TrueHD sources with the incorrect version of the filter file.
I have been reading a lot about Bass EQ for Filtered Movies and I am trying to see if the concept applies to K material from the store. As I understand it, the theory is that the studios will rolloff of filter the bass tracks as part of post-production. (I don't know why. Perhaps someone here does?) This can sometimes result in the audio track not have the same "punch" you would expect during certain parts of the movie. To adjust for this, there was a community driven effort to create filters to bring these scenes back to life. It started with folks using the miniDSP hardware and applying customer filters in-line with the subs. Ive heard some of the demo clips and the results were indeed impressive. Now some processors can support these filters directly (mine does).
With that said, I noticed most of the filters are created off of the original disc content, which makes sense given the availability and popularity. (Meaning, I didn't expect a lot of these to be built from a K system).
Since the original Bass EQ (BEQ) stuff went somewhat stagnant, there is a very active community at AVS that is now maintaining the titles, the software etc. I asked the following question over there, and I am curious what this group thinks.
1. If the source is a Kaleidescape system which is playing an uncompressed / "original" from the studio file, are the benefits of BEQ still there? The audio quality of the same title from a K system is noticeably improved from streaming, and in many cases, over the disc. One of their selling points is the fact that the audio is left untouched and is full spectrum from the studio.
2. If the above answer is "yes", then I wonder how applying the BEQ file that was built off of a disc or streamed audio source would impact the K audio source. I ask because I read the commentary about being careful on mixing Atmos, DTS-HD, TrueHD sources with the incorrect version of the filter file.