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Automatic Room Correction has won the Subwoofer Wars

Just thought of something while perusing the chats, and finding yet another "help me, I bought a subwoofer and it sounds bad" threads. 

You know what we rarely if ever see?  "Help me, I used ARC to set up my subwoofer and it sounds bad."

I think this is a strong testament to how effective these systems are to integrating a sub into an existing system, and why I'm no longer trying to help others improve as much as pointing them towards ARC as better options.

While ARC does a lot more than subwoofer integration, I think we have to admit that for most it's pretty much been a panacea.
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atmasphere
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Sir, do you not understand my role here?? :-)
I'm going with 'no' on that one...
Seriously though the title doesn't seem to be what the thread is about.

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atmasphere
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I'm seeing the title of this thread as clickbait.

Unless we are talking about DBAs vs oldschool, there are no 'subwoofer wars'.

Now one thing I'm not seeing here so far but Duke did allude to it is the Total Room Energy which dominates the room sound above 300Hz or so depending on the room. The thing is, if the speaker design is competent, the measure of this in an anechoic chamber gives a very good prediction of how the actual Total Room Energy will work out in an actual room. We all know how the off-axis response needs to smoothly drop off; the Total Room Energy is actually what dominates people's impressions of the tonality of a speaker.

This is a matter of good speaker design; it appears to me that ARCs are apparently most useful in dealing with speakers with poor response.
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