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SoundEasy V28 released - ANSI-CTA-2034 automatic measurements with a turntable

Dear All,

With this message I would like to announce the release of SoundEasy version 28.

Firstly, many thanks to you, the Users, who contributed to maintaining the list of new features, suggestions and bug reporting. As you will see in the List of Improvements in V28, your input has been guiding this release to quite significant extent.

As with all previous releases, I would encourage you to review the List of Improvements to see if there is anything you may see helpful in your design activities.

There are two items in V28, that may be of significant interest to you: (1) Automatic Extraction of Minimum-Phase response from measurements, and (2) Automatic ANSI-CTA-2034 tests with an external turntable.

For complete list of the new features, please visit my website – thank you.
https://www.bodziosoftware.com.au/

Excellent presentation from Sean Olive:

“Sean Olive on Predicting Loudspeaker Sound Quality and Listener Preference”

Senior loudspeaker designers may be interested in the optimization of loudspeaker system response based on ANSI-CTA-2034 measurements. For this to happen, you will need to take the ANSI measurements for each driver in your system individually, and the use these data in CAD/Optimization process. SE will optimize for user-defined “Listening Window” targets and “Power Response” targets.

The above is easily accomplished with V28. Just run each driver individually for horizontal and vertical SPL curves with 5deg stride with a press of a button. Have a coffee in the meantime. SE control the measurements and the turntable.


You can also run the measurement process manually. The process is simple and described in the manual: https://www.bodziosoftware.com.au/Chapter_16_4.pdf

However, as I understand, people are using automated measurement processes, because they want to avoid doing this manually.

ANSI-CTA-2034 is here to stay. The concept links measurement data with listener's preferences, and is fully explained by Sean Olive in his papers. But, the standard requires very large amount of spatial data to be collected. I am sure, you know how mundane and error-prone is the manual process.

Hence the turntable: https://augene.blogspot.com/2022/03/new-turntable-for-loudspeaker.html


Best Regards,
Bohdan
 
Hi all,
We have designed the turntable working with Bohdan to further enhance SoundEasy features, and are offering free worldwide shipping to the first 15 SoundEasy users whom express interest. Please read the turntable post in the blog for more information on how we handle this. Since we are working on a second axis for full field measurement, any ideas are welcome.
 
Update on turntable.
Below is the current design for base expansion and speaker mounting. The frame is adjustable sideways and height. Still trying to finalize the design.

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