Ensures optimum performance of your audio visual equipment.
The calibration process brings your audio and video equipment closer to its performance standards. The
closer your equipment operates to these standards the better things will sound and look. Surprisingly,
equipment ranging in cost from modest to professional will benefit from calibration.
Video:
Movie directors tell part of the story with color and light levels. However, when a display is not close to
what the director wanted you to see you are not getting the full experience of the film. For example, you
are likely to not get the mood or time of day with a scene which is typically told with color.
Sporting events will look more real on a calibrated display. Gaming sequences are more photo-realistic
and details near black are not lost. Proper display calibration requires instrumentation to measure color
and light output along with other test equipment to find all other errors. Without these tools and
experience with accurate images it is impossible to have an accurate display.
Here are some of the common errors found in consumer displays that can be corrected:
- Poor color accuracy
- Washed out images
- Dim images
- Loss of detail near black
- Low resolution
- Poor motion
- Image banding
- Pixelated images
These errors are typically caused by the following:
- Poor factory display calibration
- Blu-Ray and DVD players, cable boxes and satellite receivers settings mistakes
- Poor video settings in receivers and preamplifiers
- Poor settings in video processors
- Poor setup tools owned by the consumer
- Poor tools owned by competitors
When good tools are combined with experience, you can adjust the system closer to the reference
performance and achieve an amazing level of video reproduction even in systems that are far from the
best.
Audio:
Your system will not sound like it should without a thorough audio calibration by a person skilled in the
task using quality tools. This applies to expensive as well as less expensive systems. Many people who
are dissatisfied with their surround sound continue to change equipment when the real solution can
frequently be found within the equipment they own if only they had it setup correctly.
Common errors found in sound systems that can be corrected through audio calibrations:
- Poor dialog intelligibility
- Harsh or anemic sound
- Bass is too loud or too low
- Poor surround effect believability
- Movies lack impact
- Poor clarity
These errors can be caused by:
- Automatic sound calibration
- Poor subwoofer settings
- Poor audio source device settings
- Poor option selections in receiver or preamp
- Poor surround mode selection in receiver or preamp
- Poor speaker placement
- Poor speaker level balance
- Poor frequency response
- Speakers out of phase with others
- Subwoofer out of phase with speakers
- Wiring errors
- Poor calibration tools used by consumers
- Poor calibration tools used by competitors
When professional tools are combined with experience, you can achieve an amazing level of sound
reproduction even in rooms that are far from the best. Many people think that because their speaker
locations or room acoustics cannot be changed, their sound system cannot be improved. This is far from
the truth. With excellent tools and experience, the benefits from audio calibration are amazing in almost
all situations because it is so easy for things to be far from optimal with today’s products.