Anthem brings room correction add-on to its Statement lineup

Well-heeled audiophiles who have already bought into Anthem's Statement A/V processor lineup have one less reason to stray from the brand now. The component-producing division of Paradigm Electronics (best known for loudspeakers) has introduced its ARC-1 Room Correction System. The listening room is often the single weakest link in your audio system, and used in conjunction with an Anthem Statement processor, the ARC-1 will help tame room effects automagically. Sounds like a feature built into just about every AVR these days, but as you'd guess from Anthem's high-end pedigree, here it's implemented with separates and priced accordingly. A cool $399 (estimated) will get you the ARC-1and a calibrated mic to go along with it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 3:15PM]

Is that a "real life" measurement or just an example? If its real, then "correcting" a dip that much is pretty much universally accepted as a no-no in room correction as it taxes the amp too much. Its practically impossible from my understanding....

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 3:56PM]

hifiaudio: Yeah, that's quite a dip to correct. The picture comes from Anthem's own press materials.
http://www.castercomm.com/press.cfm?id=111

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 5:39PM]

This is a processor not an amp infact there is no amp in it. They are just "punching" values into the DSPs. The press release states "No loss in bit rate" which would translate to applying this "filter" to the DSP has really no affect on the ammount of processing they are doing.

This is no different than what a parametric eq will give you as a end result. But that masive drop in db at 2khz would make me wonder what the hell they have in that room.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 11:08PM]

Finally. I was waiting for this.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 18th 2008 2:34PM]

It's more than just "punching values into DSPs". It is hugely taxing on the 2 DSP within the D2 to process 7.1 channels at 192 kHz (everything is up-converted.) This feature pretty much maxes-out the DSPs. The AVM-50 won't get the room correction upgrade because the DSPs are not powerful enough.

hifiaudio2: This will be taxing the amp too much? I don't think so. Most poeple have the D2 paired with very high power separate amps, such as Anthem Statement P5 and P2. Room correction won't be a problem. http://statement.anthemav.com/HTML/Products/P_Series/P_Series.html

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 18th 2008 9:32PM]

I have my D2 paired with a Statement A5. I wonder if I have enough power so that room correction will not be too taxing.