Services
Audio and Video Calibration
Audio Calibration
How do we perform an audio calibration?
We analyze and remedy installation and equipment problems that limit performance, such as incorrect system or loudspeaker polarities, driver defects, and reflections.
We calibrate your speaker levels, set the time delay correctly, and determine optimum locations for your speakers and subwoofer(s) based on the room acoustics.
In order to ensure that you achieve rich, reference quality bass and smooth subwoofer integration, we calibrate the subwoofer output level, crossover, polarity, and phase. Our technicians will equalize the low frequencies so that you do not miss any audible information or experience loud, boomy spikes. We will also do a sweep of the room to check and treat any rattles or hums that occur at certain frequencies.
We can recommend additional optimization techniques to achieve crystal clear dialogue and minimize reflections. Treatment methods can be as simple as using a bookcase to absorb sound in reflective areas to acoustical treatment paneling. Our uniquely qualified technicians will help you obtain the best performance value from your audio surround investment. Have us calibrate your audio system to professional standards and put the WOW!! into your home theater.
My theater sounds good - why should I professionally calibrate it?
You wouldn't think of driving a "clunker" car with the engine out of tune, the wheels misaligned, and the transmission slipping. You expect the top performance that your car was designed to deliver. Home theater audio is much the same. If you haven't had your system professionally calibrated, it may be giving you "clunker" performance.
But didn't you spend top dollar on components to ensure that your system would sound great?
The fact of the matter is, if you put the same system in two different rooms, that system will sound entirely different in each room. The room in which you install your system is as much a component of your audio system as the speakers or the amplifier. This is why audio calibration is so important.You need to have a professional analyze how audio signals behave in your room in order to properly set up your system for optimal performance.
You want Impact & Clarity, NOT Boom & Sizzle!
Movie makers and recording engineers follow specific industry standards to capture and record the sound (Dolby, DTS, SMPTE, and THX). If your sound system and listening room are professionally calibrated to accurately reproduce that industry standard sound, you will be overwhelmed with the experience and sense of "being there." You will hear the soft rustle of leaves in the distance, helicopters will fly right over your head directly in sync with the movie, and voices will be crystal clear.You won't have to turn it up louder in the quiet parts of the movie to hear what they're saying, and then turn it back down again during the action scenes anymore! If your home theater isn't calibrated, you're being robbed of the full experience the director and audio engineers intended.
A professionally calibrated sound system will provide:
- • Intelligible dialogue
- • Lifelike clarity
- • Subtle details at low volume
- • Full, smooth sound which envelopes you
- • No rattles from pipes or pictures on the wall
Investing in expensive components without calibration can be a terrible waste of money!
We have professionally certified acoustic technicians who specialize in this service.
Our technicians are trained and certified in the science and art of acoustics. Using professional, state-of-the-art SoundPro Audio Analyzers, we will calibrate your surround system to perform better than you ever thought it was capable of. We will also generate an Acoustic Calibration Report from the SoundPro to fully document your system's calibrated performance.
With our assistance, even a modest home theater system can sound like a system costing much more - providing you with a life-like, engaging entertainment experience that you'll enjoy sharing with your family and friends. Audio calibration is the only way to capture the full potential of your home theater audio system.
Audio calibration is the only way to capture the full potential of your home theater audio system.
Video Calibration
Why Should I Professionaly Calibrate My Video Display?
A Professionally Trained And Certified Technician Will Calibrate Your Display.
Our video calibration technicians are trained and experienced in the art and science of optimizing video displays for the highest possible image quality. Each calibrationist has been certified through training and testing with the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF). Our technicians are trained in the "systems approach" to providing you with the best possible pictures from your video display system.
Can my consumer display look as good as the video monitors the professionals use?
You can get close, and in many cases, just as good. Video display manufacturers are making great products, but they're adjusting their displays to catch your eye, not to move your soul. Calibrating to industry standards is the only way to capture the full potential of your home theater video system.
Video calibration will produce the most accurate image, with the truest colors, with film-like picture qualities, and often with a much longer life.We can make your home theater system look like a system costing thousands of dollars more - giving you a more life-like, engaging entertainment experience that you'll be excited to share with your family and friends.
Share the artists' vision. Have your display calibrated to professional standards and put the WOW!! into your home theater.
Isn't My New TV Already Making A Great Picture?
You just spent your hard-earned money on a new home theater video display.
So, why don't DVD or HD movies look as good as the cinema version?
Why is the grass blue and why don't sports jerseys look the right color?
Remember how different all those TVs looked at the store, when they were all receiving the same program?
The difference wasn't so much the quality of the various models as it was the non-standard adjustment of each display. Manufacturers adjust their models to look as appealing as possible (brightest) next to competing models on a showroom floor. They usually set the user controls and technician service controls for the highest apparent light output, or for a unique look. Even if every adjustment was set precisely to industry standards at the factory, that would greatly increase the cost of your display. And, its performance would still be less than optimum after it was installed in your home, due to the effects of shipping, initial aging, and the unique lighting effects of your viewing room.
Before Calibration
After Calibration
The installer who delivered the display said he adjusted it for best performance.
Most installers simply adjust the standard user controls until the display "looks right," and don't calibrate it to any specific standard. Then, after the system ages over a few weeks of normal operation, it often looks different again. In fact, manufacturers recognize that your system can look its best and last its longest only when it is professionally calibrated after a short initial aging period.
Professional Calibration Gives You Great Benefits
When TV programs are produced, transferred from film, broadcast or cut to DVD, the process is precisely monitored on video displays calibrated to industry standards.Your video display can accurately reproduce the full, original quality of those programs only if it is calibrated to the same industry standards. You can enjoy the full quality capabilities of your new (or older) TV, monitor, or video projector with professional calibration. Your display, the final step in a precisely calibrated video distribution system, can do full justice to the high quality video signal. It can give you picture quality approaching, or even exceeding, that of the local cinema theater. However, more often, a mis-calibrated video display mangles the picture miserably.
Calibration is one of the most effective and least expensive upgrades you can make to your video system.
You will see a significant difference immediately.
Your calibrated home theater video display will:
Display a sharper focused, full resolution image.
Show full detail in the darkest and brightest parts of all scenes.
Be properly matched to your video system and viewing environment.
Maintain accurate color balance at all picture light levels.
Produce a full range of accurate colors, including flesh tones, grass, sky, and sports jerseys.
Have a cinema theater "film look."
Minimize picture artifacts (distortions).
Be easier on your eyes.
Last up to twice as long as a display with factory default settings.
We Use Professional Test Equipment to Calibrate to Industry Standards
So how can I get my video display looking the best it can? How do you ever get to see the deep, fully-detailed dark grays and vivid blacks; bright, sharp picture highlights; and most stunning, those gorgeous, colors the production artists wanted you to see?
Simple! Have us calibrate your video display, with state-of-the-art Sencore test equipment, to be as accurate as the displays that the artists and engineers use. Then, you can see the breathtaking pictures and beautiful colors that they intended.
We will calibrate your standard TV or high definition display to produce a vast picture improvement.
We use a VideoPro Multimedia Generator to generate precision test and calibration signals into every active video input, at every different signal scan format that you will normally be viewing. This may include standard TV, progressive scan DVD, satellite TV, digital cable, computer games, and off-air HDTV. We precisely calibrate your display's user control default setup (black level, white level, saturation, hue, sharpness) and technician service controls (white balance, focus, SVM, color decoder, geometry, etc.) to industry standards for both night and day viewing. We use a ColorPro Color Analyzer to analyze the background "canvas" color of your display at all brightness levels.We calibrate the background color to be accurate to the D65 industry standard, as the starting point for overlaying a full range of accurate picture colors.We make sure that every picture you view, no matter the signal source, looks the best that it can - just as it was intended to look.