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| Home > Learning Centre > Featured Stories > Customising Sound |
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Think of it like a suit. You can have a beautiful suit — nice material, nice colour, nice cut — but if it doesn’t fit, it’s not right for you. The ADAPTiQ® system is like a digital tailor for your LIFESTYLE® system. It also gives you more installation flexibility, which is key. You can put your speakers where you want. Customising Sound If you’ve ever had a BOSE® surround sound demonstration, you understand the benefits of owning such a system. Surround sound adds impact to film effects and enhances musical scores and soundtracks. It’s the level of performance you want for your home — and you want to be sure it will sound as impressive at home as in the store. But your room may have cathedral ceilings and an open floor plan. Consider the size and shape of your room, its furnishings, where you sit and where the speakers are placed. These factors could lead to a noticeable difference in sound when compared to the in-store experience. After all, their room setups are different from yours. A Bose engineering team led by Finn Arnold and Dr. Bill Rabinowitz tackled this challenge. Armed with over 30 years of experience in room acoustics, they developed the ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system to customise the sound of our premium LIFESTYLE® DVD home entertainment systems to your room. “We were inspired, in part, by years of custom installations in the Bose automotive division. We wanted to get that customised sound in the home,” Rabinowitz said. “This technology was something of a Holy Grail for a long time,” Arnold explained. “We felt resolving the acoustic challenges of the room could have the biggest impact on what people hear.” Have a seat … and listen  Using the ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system couldn't be easier. You slip on special headsets equipped with microphones, then sit in five of your favourite places to listen to music or watch TV. Your LIFESTYLE® system generates special test sounds and the ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system listens to how they sound in your room. The information is analysed, and the system adjusts itself for audio performance in your particular room.“Think of it like a suit. You can have a beautiful suit — nice material, nice colour, nice cut — but if it doesn’t fit, it’s not right for you. The ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system is like a digital tailor for your LIFESTYLE® system. It also gives you more installation flexibility, which is key. You can put your speakers where you want,” Arnold said. The ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system only requires 10-15 minutes to set up, and if you change your room around — or move the system to another room altogether — you simply run the setup process again. Testing for success Although it's simple to use, the ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system is sophisticated in nature. The engineering team knew it would take exhaustive testing of the final product to be sure the ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system would compensate for practically any room environment.  “We covered speakers with PVC pipe, obviously a pretty extreme test. We mounted speakers high up on support beams. We even ran the system in a reverberation room, where sounds echo for as long as five to six seconds. We wanted to ensure the system was stable, accurate and robust, so we tested in unrealistic environments as well as in the home,” Rabinowitz said.In the end, the ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system was a success on two fronts. “We developed one of the most advanced audio calibration systems and it’s simple to use. It’s like having an engineer come to your home and design your system for optimum sound,” he added.
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