Systems, Calibration & Installation
The earlier parts covered how spatial audio is built and how a room shapes it. This part is the hands-on, professional end: turning a format into loudspeakers in a real room, then making that physical system actually deliver the cues the rest of the guide assumes.
Calibration is not cosmetic. The precedence effect and summing localization only work if arrivals are coherent in time; a believable direct-to-reverberant balance needs sane speaker distances and aiming; and an even experience across the audience needs coverage to be designed, not assumed.
Chapters
- Speaker Layouts & Diffusion Topologies — from a format to a physical layout, topologies, reference geometries, coverage, and speaker count.
- Time Alignment & Phase — delay, polarity, phase coherence, and sub-to-main alignment.
- Equalization & Room Correction — room modes, target curves, minimum-phase limits, and per-speaker EQ.
- Subwoofers & Bass Management — crossovers, the LFE, multi-sub mode control, and integration.
- Measurement & Calibration — the impulse response, transfer functions, metrics, level calibration, and tools.
- Networking & System Integration — Dante, AVB/Milan, AES67, clocking, latency, and redundancy.