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不管您喜歡還是不喜歡，大多數的房間會讓重低音喇叭的效果變差，即使是我們的重低音喇叭也不例外。有時候影響只是一點點，有時候卻是很多，音樂與電影的重低音變的模糊、不平衡、而且是很明顯的錯誤。如果您花錢購買SVS的重低音喇叭，那我們相信，您一定正在追尋更低沉也更正確的重低音表現。多年來，我們已經製作世界上最好的重低音喇叭了，但我們不能改變/修理您的房間。
但是現在，AS-EQ1重低音EQ已經蓄勢待發。經過了兩年的研究，SVS與 Audyssey實驗室 ，這個在音響空間校正科技上最受人尊敬的名字，一起研究發展了AS-EQ1，您還在等什麼呢？快點預定屬於您的AS-EQ1，這個可以在任何房間校正任何重低音喇叭的神奇小盒子。
下載我們在CES 2009的AS-EQ1宣傳單here!
透過AS-EQ1，您得到什麼呢？你所需要的一切，在一個光滑外觀中，整齊地整合到幾乎所有的影院或音響系統 。透過GUI介面啟動與操作軟體，在您筆記型電腦的視窗程式中，你會在短短地數分中內，體驗幾乎完美的低音。無論您的房間或您的重低音喇叭擺放位置多麼具有挑戰性。我們保證，調整重低音喇叭這個惡夢，將會永遠的離您遠去，只要您能簡單的透過AS-EQ1內附的麥克風，在您的房間中移動並使用它。
當然，AS-EQ1是個旗艦產品，內含了相當多新穎的元件，並且包含了Audyssey實驗室獨家的重低音調整技術。AS-EQ1可以調整與撫平響應頻率上的不平坦之處，並且在空間中最多32個位置完成。當您完成時，您的房間中沒有重低音的"甜蜜點"，取而代之的是，你會有個甜蜜的房間 。平坦、緊密，這是在空間中每個座位上，您能得到的最好重低音表現。AS-EQ1甚至聰明到可以獨立調整兩顆重低音喇叭。一旦使用了AS-EQ1，它會為您計算理想且平坦的頻率響應，這是任何的音樂和電影的專業人士所建議的。
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AS-EQ1 sub EQ I/O on rear. Twin independent sub outputs. RCA monitor out for optimal sub/mains level matching. |
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Magnetic faceplate removed. Mic and GUI controls up front where you need them, hidden when you don't! |
某些音響設備，有相當好的調整功能，也可以針對房間所引起的問題進行細微調整，但他們的功能，甚至都不如Audyssey實驗室之前的解決方案來的功能強大。AS-EQ1中的軟體，可以在您的筆記型電腦中以圖形介面的方式執行，您甚至不用打開您的電視或者投影機。在執行軟體數分鐘後，依照螢幕上顯示Step by Step的指示，您就可以享受AS-EQ1帶給您的新體驗了。即使您從事與音響相關的工作，而且您也討厭看使用說明書，但是AS-EQ1軟體的直覺式設計，將使您可以輕易的使用與設定。當然，我們知名的終生技術服務仍然存在。
AS-EQ1的重低音調校功能有口皆碑，您的空間越是糟糕，越是能顯示出AS-EQ1的強大功能。AS-EQ1可輕易校正您空間中的所存在的擺設問題，但是卻又不是透過暴力法或者是PEQ的方式。It corrects for acoustical room anomalies not with the brute-force manipulation of crude IIR filters found in conventional PEQs, but instead with the finesse and sophistication of FIR-based filters which don’t cause phase/time-domain anomalies and distortions which corrupt your sound. So even if you picked horrible locations for your sub (or subs) the AS-EQ1’s highly sophisticated deep bass correction algorithms, optimized by Audyssey, quickly pull into focus the flat, deep and naturally coherent response you won't ever get with lesser technologies.
This box might not be for dyed-in-the-wool "tweakers" who sometimes want different frequency response curves than "flat" (even if less accurate). While a conventional PEQ will invariably result in a less accurate frequency response, can cause noticeable  artifacts, can't correct for more than one listening position, and can’t handle dual subs, it’s still better than nothing. So if you like spending nights and weekends wrestling with spreadsheets, SPL meters, difficult-to-learn measurement software, and endlessly tweaking your manual PEQ - well maybe the AS-EQ1 isn’t for you. For the rest of us who would rather be watching movies and listening to music with a minimum investment of time and learning curve, the AS-EQ1 is simply the most powerful, fastest, and easiest way to get stunning bass.
It's also not a box you need if you are blessed with perfect room response already. Nearly no rooms are, but it happens. If you measure adequately flat bass, you might leave well enough alone.
And of course, we don't recommend people buy an $800 bass-correction solution to use with mediocre subs either. If you have a sub that's not powerful enough or deep enough for your needs, it makes sense to upgrade there first naturally.
But this still affordable box is the best way to optimize any sub, even big "do it yourself" (DIY) subwoofers, virtually eliminating room factors that distort sound. Entry level customers with limited audio budgets might decide instead to just get a good current AV receiver offering less-robust correction systems to economize. Yet no receiver based room correction system has the sheer refinement and processing horsepower, nor can it cope with dual subs nearly as well. Leave the AS-EQ1 as an upgrade on par with any consideration you put towards dual subs, or investing in any world-class sub from SVS such as our PB13-Ultra and PC13-Ultra, or top subs from elsewhere.
Above is but one quick 7 position correction done with two different model SVS subs plopped in an old home, with just basic setup. One in a corner one not, put where the subs looked right and fit into the available space. You can see the "before" results on the left of the chart. Not the worst frequency response you might have seen, but certainly nothing you want to show your mother. Much less your audio enthusiast friends.. Twin subs working this wacky just are not going to sound focused, tight and well, right. PEQ experts can fix some of this, but with twin subs, well, forget about any sanity that weekend. Getting dual subs to "play nice" isn't twice as hard as optimizing one sub, sometimes, it's four times harder. No longer though. More results pages of real rooms we've visited around the world with early Beta versions of the AS-EQ1 will be posted here soon.
These results then? Call it a 10 min "down an dirty" run through, as you might do just putting your system into a room for the first time. Yet, the AS-EQ1 is so powerful, you can measure up to 32 positions in any room, for either one or two subs. Take seated measurements where friends and family gather, and even some from common standing areas in your listening room. Measure wherever you care to create your sweet spot in the room. But because the AS-EQ1 is measuring multiple locations, it's not making a sweet "spot" but a "sweet room". So goodbye to the uneven bass from seat to seat. Things bass fans once accepted as "the limitations of bass in a typical home". Accept this no longer.
A tale of three rooms, one subwoofer EQ: Click above for results of the AS-EQ1 at Kent Home Cinema, England.
And this sub EQ "talks" to your AVR too; allowing your receiver to runs its room correction, but leaving the far more complicated and processor intensive subwoofer correction to the AS-EQ1. These are nulls and peaks which defy "room treatments" such as bass traps, and would give even the most ardent user of old-fashioned PEQ devices fits. The heavy-duty DSP power isn't needed by everyone then, but it IS the fix many rooms need. The refinement over such un-corrected rooms is startling. Both audible and visual recorded results of "before" and "after" are typically quite obvious. How different those two curves actually sound might not be so intuitive, but hearing it work makes believers out of virtually everyone without one of those perfect rooms (which again is nearly everyone).
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AS-EQ1 sub EQ top to bottom: front plate on, front plate off, rear shot |
Even long-standing SVS staff have a new appreciation for how good our subs really are. After using it for over a year we've concluded it's a "must have" for any aspiring high-end system. "Simple to operate" was part of the "must have" concept. We admit it, SVS doesn't like spending time fiddling with room response, especially with yesterday's limited technology. Actually watching movies and listening to music is what we prefer. Effective is no good without ease of use. The AS-EQ1 is both.
Shipping should start first in Asia (most components are configured at a very high end firm in Taipei, final assembly and testing will be done in our Ohio factory however). MSRP of this radical new device is $799. But given a lengthy pre-order, and to help resist recession pressures, we're going to kick start things at $699. We're not sure how long our first run will last. Order soon to reserve yours now at this special price. Our widely acclaimed Customer Service department backs all users with questions and an on-line support page at SVS will make software updates as easy as opening the page here.
Audio lovers, perfect bass is finally possible, easy, and downright fun to achieve. Your AV receiver investment is solidified since the AS-EQ1 is compatible with any sort you have. Your bass needs are covered no matter what your current or future room look like. Switch one on, run setup, and you won't ever switch it off. Harness the power and refinement of your system, and take the room out of the equation, finally.
產品特徵
- 內建先進DSP，使用Audyssey實驗室特製空間校正演算法
- 應用Audyssey實驗室的可調適的低頻率校正技術(ALFC)，目前世界上最先進的重低音校正
- 可在時間與頻率兩維度上產生作用，並且可用在任何重低音喇叭上
- 可同時連接兩顆重低音喇叭，與多聲道系統可良好整合
- FIR filters to avoid time/phase distortion inherent with IIR filters for superior bass clarity
- Corrects bass for an incredible 32 positions in horizontal and vertical space to cover any listening area
- Heavy-duty steel chassis with SVS's magnetically-retained CNC'd aluminum face-plate
- Twin sub in, twin out, with multiple configuration modes. Mains level calibration signal output jack.
- 簡易使用的圖形化介面(GUI)軟體，並內附使用者說明書
- 專用Audyssey麥克風，並內附AV擴大機外部連接線材
- 高品質獨立12V電源線，內附USB連接線
- 線上SVS技術支援，軟體更新與即時新聞
- 具備電源與狀態指示Led燈
- 前貒面板可輕易安裝校正用麥克風與USB連接線
- 在SVS於俄亥俄州的總部做最後測試與組裝
- 限量產品，只經由SVS與其經銷商獨家販售
- Read our extensive, context sensitive owners manual here
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