Recent content by Paul Hurt

Oh I should also mention that I kinda preferred how it looked with almost all the “processing” switched off - so I defeated MotionFlow, sharpening (there’s two different kinds) was either off or at its near-lowest setting, noise reduction off… It just looked more natural like that, to me anyway...

Yep, it looked very good just after dialling it in by eye. But of course, it goes pretty bright on a 135” screen, so it’s not frantically having to compensate for the limited peak brightness you get from projectors of old - the picture stays punchy and dynamic. I’ll try and suss out the...

Thanks Todd. The NX7 is still around for now. I will almost certainly sell it, but my plan is to compare and contrast the two first… you know, run a few side-by-side tests, do a visual comparison. I realise it’s not a fair fight, they’re not quite from equivalent sectors of the projector market...

Managed a quick play with the XW6100 and so far so good. I’ll have some actual opinions on it soon, once I find time to investigate more. But one immediate recommendation - make sure the projector isn’t crushing shadow details. Easily done. The default brightness setting just subtly crushed the...

It's here! I'll post some thoughts on it as soon as I find time to experiment. Similar specs to JVC (tho I don't have an NZ800 to compare it to), but I think Sony have a slightly different philosophy behind their software. Not saying better or worse, just different. Stand by.

I've taken a bit of a leap into the dark (or the light) away from my NX7... I'm picking up a Sony XW6100 later this week. Found a great deal I couldn't pass up. Bit concerned about only having five lens presets tho. I love my constant image height stuff, and now with IMAX to deal with as well...

Have to say, if you ARE prepared to lose a metre off the length of your room, there is a lot you can do for relatively little effort. I’d make that whole back wall, floor to ceiling, into a simple resistive absorber, filled with cheap, lightweight “fluffy”. Should be effective down to about 50...

I think re-running your measurements with a bigger bass-capable speaker would be a good move. The 8020s won't excite the room much below 80Hz with their 4" drivers. But I'm loving 400mm absorbers (on the back wall/corners?). If you can space them off the wall by 100mm as well, so much the...

Of course, inverse square law only holds true in a free-field eg outdoors. Once you’re running a speaker in a room, the way sound waves are contained / reflected means you don’t get that expected drop in SPL as you increase distance from the speaker. But the thing about reference level is...

Hi again VJ! I think you nailed it. We did touch on Fletcher-Munson in the podcast… mainly in relation to Audyssey. The difference between the equal loudness curves at listening levels of 79dBC and 85dBC is very small, so I don’t think F-M effects are going to affect how movies and home...

FWIW I think I’ve figured out ripping UHD and extracting WAVs. Have never had any need to do it before. Amazing what you can figure out with 10 min on Google. Let me decide if I want to go quite this deep down the rabbit-hole :-) I agree JS - when the object is just to find good volume...

Netflix and everyone tend to use a variation on the broadcast ITU / ATSC / EBU R128 LKFS-target based spec. Thing is, that’s not how movies are mixed… tho it may be how some HE mixes of movies are mixed. But since i believe the aim is try and duplicate the theatrical experience, it makes sense...

yes… same technique people use to rip discs for Zappiti etc. Can it rip Dolby Digital/Atmos tracks to WAV files tho? I guess BEQ folk are doing it somehow, I just haven’t had time to investigate.

I have all the DAW stuff obviously. The issue is not the DAW or plug-ins, the issue is capturing the audio accurately from the disc (or a stream) into a bunch of WAV files. It needs to be done either by ripping the disc and extracting WAVs at least for each base layer channel, or taking it from...

So, just to relate what I’m saying about guessing an average Dialog level, the min dialog SPL in that Judas ATBM chart is 68dBC, and the max is 74 or 75dBC. Average of those is 71dBC, which is what I’ve settled on as a good target dialog level in my room. (That’s because that graph was measured...