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Main monitors have been consigned to a luxury project and a regrettably neglected corner of the portfolio – monuments to a lost, golden age, with a business case increasingly difficult to prove. Well, maybe.
“India is a busy market, thanks
to Bollywood,” he reports, “as are private home theatres. And there is a place for some DSP in large monitors, because you can build filters in the digital domain that you cannot build in the analogue domain. There might be less call for room correction, as these are typically monitors you put in once, but even ‘treated’ rooms have problems unfortunately. So far, the largest monitor we do with some DSP control is the 1238A launched at IBC – which qualifies for Dolby Surround
approval. Broadcast, post and music could all benefit from some DSP in main monitors, but the demand only occurs when you demonstrate the possibilities.”
THE MODERN CONE- SERVATIVE PARTY Some brands seem unlikely to incorporate DSP at all, whatever the size of the monitor. Australia’s Event monitors use active nearfield technology, but according to director of engineering Marcelo Vercelli the laws of physics present an
insurmountable barrier to digital’s insidious progress. “Audio DSP has dramatically
improved over the last decade but there are certain characteristics belonging to analogue that DSP has a very hard time keeping up with,” he says. “First is in the realm of dynamics, where only the fastest of sampling rates can begin to approach the reproduction quality of a well-designed analogue front-end. “Yes, DSP offers amazing
power and flexibility when it comes to the measured signal, providing flat frequency response and almost perfect phase. But it also interpolates the audio signal when it can’t keep up with high-level dynamics found in vocals, guitars or cymbals. It then has to put the ones and zeroes back together again in order to construct an analogue waveform. In our opinion, only analogue can be made to sound and measure correctly and deliver uncompromising performance.”
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