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CARA - Room Acoustic Software

We're very much not into doing sales-pitch type posts, but after reading through several threads in this forum, we realized that questions regarding software for room acoustics were frequent enough that if we tried to answer every thread, we'd *really* feel obnoxious!

So... the lesser of two evils

CARA is a comprehensive room acoustic modelling package designed and developed by German physicist: Dr. Ulrich Thomanek. Dr. Thomanek worked with ELAC GmbH for many years and used computer models to bring their loudspeakers to be the number two in Germany.

He started ELAC Technische Software as a spinoff dedicated to his computer programs associated with loudspeaker modelling and room acoustics. CARA 2.0 is the product.

Rather than get into too many details here, I'll send you to www.cara.de where they have lots of information regarding CARA and a walkthrough. The site is in both English and German.

Early last year, Rhintek became the US representative for ETS and CARA. We have a strong background in software development, but are relatively new to the high-end audio industry. Our website is: www.rhintek.com

Thanks for your time, I'll probably be lurking around here on occasion as it looks like this forum is a good place for me to gain more understanding.

Kristin VanVranken,
Rhintek Incorporated
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I have a pair of Dunlavy SC-VIs, some very high-end equipment and and a large but complex room.
I got this great accoustic simulation/optimization program CARA 2.0, but even though this program comes with a bunch of speaker models, it has no Dunlavy SC-VI model.

I have created a simple SC-VI model but it is VERY far from the frequency response of the Dunlavy SC-VI. I sent an e-mail to Dunlavy a couple of months ago asking them to make a correct model, but Dunlavy never responded.

Can somebody get Dunlavy to make this simulation model? It should not take much time and would be great given that these speakers are very sensitive to positioning and this great program does speaker position optimization IF you have a good model of the speaker.

Alternatively, does somebody have a CARA 2.0 model for the Dunlavy SC-VI that is close to the correct frenquency response? Please e-mail to vpnogueira@yahoo.com.

Thanks,

Vicente
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