02-17-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,284 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 1 Post ID: 27971 Reply to: 27971 A dive to Auro 3D I have been hesitant about it for a while. I clearly see a tremendous potential of it and the demonstrations that Bill was giving to me certainly very much encouragedge me. My reverberation channels processor begin to act up and I was faced at dilemma to get another reverberation procession or go full thread Auro. I decided to give Auro a try.  I do not know if Auro will be a full replacement of what I was getting from my reverberation channels. It might be not or it might even eliminate reverberation channels. I do not know in this point. I certainly am not looking for a full immersive experience as Auro meant to be and I am certainly not driving main channels over Auro processor. However, I very much see that I might try to use some of the Auro channels as an expressive tool to get some aspects of space. I do not know at this point what exactly I want from Auro. The most important I do not know if I will find it beneficial for what I value in music. For sure it provide a spectacular and impressive photographic tricks over listening experience but it is remained to be seen if those new experiences have any practical benefits for music interpretation. I will be updating.... "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

02-18-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree maravedis Posts 3 Joined on 08-07-2021 Post #: 2 Post ID: 27973 Reply to: 27971 Bacch Romy, I hardly dare write this post... You have to try Bacch dsp. I'm not sure how to talk about it without sounding like a commercial. Yes, yes I know, you'll have to introduce digital to your chain. But honestly, it's akin to magic. It does lots of things - but the main thing for me is the 'music floating away from the speakers' effect - and with some recordings the acoustic rendition is truly phenomenal. On only very very few recordings do I feel the need to press the bypass button. https://www.theoretica.us/bacch4mac/CheskyLanding16.html

02-18-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,284 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 3 Post ID: 27974 Reply to: 27973 Please, do not tell me that it is sponsored by David Chesky... Thanks, I will look it up. My intentions for sure not to run my main channels over any type of digital transformation. I would like to have just very slight touch up with space treatment channels. Hopefully, Auro will be doing it more effectively then my reverberation injection channels. This all honesty I typically discard any digital processing on my channels that was my constant debate with Bill, who used his Termov pre-pro for everything. I sincerely feels that no matter how good it is still a major degradation of what I felt is important. However, then and few weeks ago he engaged ampX application concept of peace with base channels is that it's all his system showed off was very different. AmpX, come on many things provide certain moisturizing sound that feels is very beneficial for the result Bill's system typically demonstrate. Maybe it was something else, but while I was listening I have zero desire to improve anything, which happenes with me remarkably seldom. I think, buly some means, ampX shuts down in nuro-system of our brain concept of criticality. I am still looking into it and I am observing that many things we can see the critical and important before become under ampX kind of irrelevant... "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

02-18-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,284 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 4 Post ID: 27975 Reply to: 27973 To be seen... I did look at the Batch concept. The clam 3d binaural transformation. This is very very cool, as anything else which is binaural related. I do not know if anything is missed in there in the translation. Since they are on Mac only I will never know as I am religiously stay away from Mac. What is the most fascinating for me at this point would be to observe if binaural, or Auro or any other space construction technologes have any beneficial impact to what I feel important for music listening. We all know that any space reconstruction maybe very impressive as a demo. For us, the audio guys, it acts like smel of shit for flyers, and we all celebrate a new glamorous things. Yes, it does trick our neural system feel submerging effect, and it is very impressive. However, how much me as listeners got advanced by is this submerging? And this point I have no answer to this question. "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

02-19-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree maravedis Posts 3 Joined on 08-07-2021 Post #: 5 Post ID: 27976 Reply to: 27975 Advanced by this submerging I too was extremely reluctant to get a MAC. (luckily you don't really need to touch it after installation). You could use the uBacch VST plugin on any OS if you play through a DAW. The effect is between 10-20% of the real thing - but it serves to prove that no nasty effects are added.  For me the sense of ease and music just existing in my home space is a complete game changer. I very rarely consider I'm listening to HI FI now - the clever imaging effects that happen from time to time are fun but definitely not the main point of it all. And luckily, many many vintage orchestral recordings seem to have lots of wonderful spacial stereo in them - often amazing placements and sonorities of wind and brass sections. Bruckner, yes. I'm listening to a string quartet concert from BBC radio 3 at Wigmore Hall now - and I truly recognise the space, not as an ambience - but how the instruments fly around and react back from the hall. Just one more thing - the extra room correction module ORC is unlike any other correction that I've tried. I believe it's truly ground-breaking how it works. In fact when I first got it going I was reminded of your preference for Loooong Bass...  I had read about Bacch a while ago and was totally put off by the way it was talked about - in fact I kind of assumed it was a scam. But I assure you, what people say about it is generally very accurate -  just as my descriptions here are a bit hyperbolic! BTW, if you need another AmpX beta tester, I'm ready to go...