Equalizer McIntosh MEN220
Digital parametric equalizer in the product line of McIntosh looks defiantly. This brand is famous for its traditions. They like to republish your own legendary amplifiers fifties, revered classic tube circuits, and the design does not change for decades ... and all of a sudden breakthrough in the sphere of new technologies! In fact, his appearance - a completely natural process. McIntosh is not the first deals with the components for a home theater, and very successfully. And as you know, none of the modern theatrical receiver is not complete without a digital sound correction system - you need something to do to cope with five to seven speakers and even a subwoofer, or even two. Today, even the cheapest receivers equipped with microphones to adjust the path in the room, there are plenty of various software and techniques of handling practiced hundreds of times. Had one last step - back to the world stereo. And this step is done.
The rear panel has a port to connect to your computer. Download a special program, you smozheet correct response with his own hands, using the six-lane equalizer. Set the audio output double - for the high and low frequencies. This is just to use the machine as an active crossover. By default, all four pairs of outputs (nye symmetric and asymmetric) produce a full range signal. They can also be connected at once two active subwoofers.
However, if the new incarnation will be able to restore the reputation of the equalizer, tarnished by his predecessors? Processor MEN220 looks like a typical McIntosh, - glass front panel, an impressive building, green backlight display, solid metal handles and large plastic keys in retro style. However, it's best to communicate with the device through the console. It just a few buttons, but is enough to carry out all the necessary operations to setup. The main objective of this component - give your audio system to show the best of their capabilities in the room where she was. It uses patented RoomPerfect - algorithm analysis of acoustic properties of the room, and audio frequency response correction in accordance with the received data.
The processor is connected between the preamplifier and power amplifier, and setup takes no more than fifteen minutes. First, the machine prompts you to select a point at which you listen to music (such points can specify multiple, and save the settings for each processor in the memory). At this point, at the level of the listener's head set microphone, and start measuring. Speakers emit a couple of minutes ominous sounds of different frequencies (according to the specifications of the system RoomPerfect, used a pure tone 121 in the range 20 Hz-20 kHz), then the display will show the proposal to rearrange the microphone somewhere else. This phase of the analysis of room acoustics. During measurements RoomPerfect acquires the acoustic modes and the response of the room, focus your speaker, borders fall at high and low frequencies. Microphone need to rearrange three or four times until the processor will report that data on the machine room at over 90%. After that, he feels ready to work.
