Audyssey multeq price/availability?

It's available on Denon, Marantz, and Onkyo AVRs among others as well as a few brands of HDTVs. Check here for more info.

The SEQ is $2500 from Audyssey but there is one offered on AVS, used, for $500.

They have a locator on their site for the closest installer.
http://www.audyssey.com/solutions/ho...r/soundeq.html

$2500.
Yikes.
I'm better off buying a receiver ....just to equalize my 2 channel room.
Guess the RCVR would become the pre-amp using my existing integrated as the power amp.
Cumbersome...there must be a better way.

If all you want is a 2 channel EQ, look elsewhere. Good ones ain't cheap.

For cheap two-channel setup get Behringer DEQ2496 and a measurement microphone ECM8000. Just $355, but unlike Audyssey you need to tune it yourself.

I thought people here now say MultEQ XT32 is the one to have, but the SEQ only has XT and not the latest?

Also, is there any reason why the SEQ can't connect to the player directly, then output to processor?

And shouldn't the SEQ accept MCH PCM via HDMI directly, rather than analogue thus having to go through A/D and D/A steps?

What should I be looking at?
Something like Lyngdorf or TacT?
I'm sure they're well beyond the average receiver.

Further research shows that the Audyssey piece will eq my 5.1 room, and the 2.0 so maybe that's not so bad after all.

True but it works pretty well.


Sure but then it will only be effective for that player and not for other sources.


Sure but no one has built such a device as there are licensing/decoding issues.

You can get Audyssey in the average receiver, so why look for a stand-alone?


Why not just get an AVR?

The snob in me says an AVR can't possibly sound as good as a dedicated integrated (probably wrong, I know).

But if I'm talking about applying room correction then I'm not really listening to the int.amp in its pure state, am I?

Plus it seems like a waste to buy an AVR and only use it as a room correcting 2 channel pre-amp.
Multiple channels of amplification, video capabilities, tuner, surround decoding.....none of it being used.
But, if it's still the most cost effective route then that's what I should consider.
Maybe I'll bring one home on a demo to see what Audyssey can do with my room.

Here are two ideas:

http://www.jblpro.com/MSC1/MSC1_Overview.html
http://www.krksys.com/product_ergo.php

Mebbe they will work for you.

PCM in, analogue out, no decoding. DA conversion is needed in any case, so that leaves HDMI and that can't be that expensive when sub-$100 players all have it.

That is exactly what I suggested some years back but the problems are in the HDMI protocols (will they countenance having the prepro/AVR and the EQ both as HDMI Repeaters in series?) and in the need to amortize the costs over many, many units. I really doubt the market for such an EQ could carry it but I'd like to be proven wrong.

Kal you know more about HDMI repeaters than I do but I'm thinking on similar terms to an external video processor (which has switcher function): there's generally no problem connecting it to an AVR or then from an AVR to display.

Good point and I know just enough to raise the issue. OTOH, it reminds me of another issue: The necessity of introducing some video circuitry into a fundamentally audio device because the audio is integrated into the video of the HDMI connections.

Frankly, it always comes down to economics and it is hard to think that there is sufficient market for a stand-alone EQ that sells for the price of a low- to mid-range AVR when those AVRs usually incorporate such EQs.