weijiangnan
New Head-Fier
Test discs are available to test the positioning accuracy of each channel.
Smyth Research Realiser A16
sander99
Headphoneus Supremus
Ahaa, so it happens when capturing a new PRIR, I had not understood that correctly from your earlier post.
Then it is not strange nobody else noticed it yet because most A16 owners don't make a new PRIR very often.
Don’t you think it would be better that @weijiangnan write a message to James Smyth about this issue?
sander99
Headphoneus Supremus
Ah yes, of course. @weijiangnan: please do write James about it.
Use "2.15 bug report" as subject then hopefully they will read your mail.
I'm a long time pre-order customer who's still hoping to get a Realiser even if I have to pay a little more (not full price though).
Anyway, in an effort to help the company get back on its feet, I emailed James Smyth about how he could use the push of Dolby Atmos mixes by the music industry to sell many more units at full price. Setting up a studio to mix in Atmos can be prohibitively expensive for many, and the Realiser 16 could have been a great option for people on a budget.
I have no idea if he even read that email. So, if anyone has a way to contact him, please pass along the message. Maybe that could help them get back on track with deliveries
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Anyway, in an effort to help the company get back on its feet, I emailed James Smyth about how he could use the push of Dolby Atmos mixes by the music industry to sell many more units at full price. Setting up a studio to mix in Atmos can be prohibitively expensive for many, and the Realiser 16 could have been a great option for people on a budget.
I have no idea if he even read that email. So, if anyone has a way to contact him, please pass along the message. Maybe that could help them get back on track with deliveries
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zdjh22
100+ Head-Fier
So this is a real shot in the dark from an A16 neophyte. I received my new A16 mid-June, so it has the new ARM microprocessor and requires 2.15 (and obviously came with 2.15). About a week in I finally got around to making HPEQs for my various headphones, and the resulting output using those HPEQs was shifted substantially to the right. I figured that it was an issue with microphone placement in my ears, but before I had a chance to sort things out my A16 started throwing “Error Code 003” and had to be shipped back to Smyth for repair under warranty (solder fix on the DSP).
However, the one thing I noticed in the 2.15 firmware notes which weren’t available until just before my unit went bad (the 2.15 firmware officially released after I got my A16) is that there is a differential adjustment now available that allows different gains for the left and right microphone inputs. By chance if 2.15 comes with a bad default differential gain setting, that would mess up PRIR measurements as well.
Like I said, a shot in the dark, but perhaps worth the check. There’s a procedure in the 2.15 firmware notes to use pink noise to measure microphone response and set the differential gains.
I just heard from James that the repairs are done and my A16 is going through testing. With any luck it’ll ship back to me later this week. I can’t downgrade to 2.12 because the hardware isn’t compatible, but I’ll report back any HPEQ weirdness (and eventually PRIR results).
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As the the subject line is “2.15 bug report” and not “when do you deliver the outstanding Realiser A16 units?”, most likely the message will be addressed.
As long as your Realiser A16 unit is still going through testing, you might also write a message to James Smyth pointing to the bug reported by @weijiangnan.
zdjh22
100+ Head-Fier
I will certainly pass it along at the next message interchange (typically James takes up to a week on responses, and I’m waiting on his latest).
I will be most interested first to see if @weijiangnan looks and finds any issue with microphone gain settings.
Not sure if emails will be checked... The Smyths will be out of the office for the next two weeks.
By the grace of God, we’ll still be here.
Wait, can the A16 do Dolby Atmos mixes that you can get on Tidal? I need to look into thisI'm a long time pre-order customer who's still hoping to get a Realiser even if I have to pay a little more (not full price though).
Anyway, in an effort to help the company get back on its feet, I emailed James Smyth about how he could use the push of Dolby Atmos mixes by the music industry to sell many more units at full price. Setting up a studio to mix in Atmos can be prohibitively expensive for many, and the Realiser 16 could have been a great option for people on a budget.
I have no idea if he even read that email. So, if anyone has a way to contact him, please pass along the message. Maybe that could help them get back on track with deliveries
@Litlgi74 I want to buy a PRIR file from your shop. Do you have a quick how-to sheet for getting my zipped A16 log file?
Edit: Nevermind, I just figured it out.
Edit: Nevermind, I just figured it out.
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Amazon 4k firestick can deliver (lossy) Atmos via Tidal... But fidelity is considerably less when compared to the same content on physical media.
* Volume is actually reduced by about 10db.
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BTW, The Tidal app on Apple TV 4k can play Atmos. I would guess that Apple Music and Spotify can too.
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