23-Aug-2015, 18:15
(This post was last modified: 23-Aug-2015, 18:21 by Rufus McDufus.)
I find it about 50:50 though I don't really like 100% SAM any more. I do find it seems to be more effective with some tracks than others. With firmware 7.x I found the artificial bass boost was a little too much but the coherence was good. Now with f/w 8.x I find the bass boost seems less prevalent but I'm not really sensing any better coherence at all with SAM on. I tend to find myself switching between SAM on or off, and perhaps up to 50% SAM at most, usually 0 or 25%. I actually find the higher frequencies airier and easier to make out with SAM off (vocals are easier to follow for instance), though it can be a little on the harsh side.
I guess if the profile data for various speakers is wrong then we're all going to have different impressions. I also presume that if they have made errors migrating the SAM v1 profiles to the v2 data format for firmware 8.x then any speaker with incorrect data is going to sound worse than without SAM. A SAM profile is unique for that speaker type so the probability of the incorrect profile sounding better than with no SAM is almost infinitely low I'd have thought?
I've still never understood whether SAM applies 100% phase correction all the time (from all settings of 0 to 100% SAM) or whether it's variable across the range? That would imply 0% SAM phase correction is degraded in comparison with 100% and that sounds a bit pointless and more difficult to achieve than just 100% phase correction all the time.
I guess if the profile data for various speakers is wrong then we're all going to have different impressions. I also presume that if they have made errors migrating the SAM v1 profiles to the v2 data format for firmware 8.x then any speaker with incorrect data is going to sound worse than without SAM. A SAM profile is unique for that speaker type so the probability of the incorrect profile sounding better than with no SAM is almost infinitely low I'd have thought?
I've still never understood whether SAM applies 100% phase correction all the time (from all settings of 0 to 100% SAM) or whether it's variable across the range? That would imply 0% SAM phase correction is degraded in comparison with 100% and that sounds a bit pointless and more difficult to achieve than just 100% phase correction all the time.
