Customer Reports About Their Professional Calibrations - Page 18

Jeff Meier came over last month to calibrate both the audio and the video in my basement home theater (JVC-RS20 projector, B&K pre-pro and amp, B&W Nautilus speakers) as well as in my family room (50" Pioneer Kuro plasma, Denon AVR, oldish KEF speakers). He noticed that there was some purple fringing around the edge of the image projected by the JVC RS20, so he decided not to calibrate it until after I got the problem fixed. But that meant that he had more time to optimize the audio in my home theater and the results are phenomenal. He must have spent 2+ hours just tweaking the audion using a variety of speciality discs and the difference between the before and after is unmistakable. Following Jeff's advice, I've sent off the projector to JVC for repairs, and Jeff will be back sometime next year to calibrate it. In my family room, we had the opposite problem! Jeff did a fantastic job calibrating the Pioneer, but could not calibrate the audio because one of my surround speakers had blown a driver. I've replaced it now, and Jeff will calibrate the audio the next time he comes out to the Washington DC area.

I found Jeff to be extremely knowlegeble, very professional and a real gentleman. He has every kind of gadget that is necessary to get the best out of one's A/V system. I will certainly book a time slot with him the next time he tours my neighborhood, and I highly recommend him to anyone who is looking for a very experienced professional to calibrate their home theater.

Cal68

Thanks to all the Calibrators but what about price.
ball park, no excuse.
I have a Mitsubishi 75" Laservue and I am in Florida (Orlando) what will be the price for the Calibration.
I do not what to have blow joe to give me his price and then the others back out; I what all of you Calibrator to tell me how much and tell me why and what you use to drive the cost to that level. Please like to know but that does not means that I will do it tomorrow but I will do it sometime soon.

Thanks.

If you want prices. Then you best actually contact the individual calibrators in question, or at least the ones you are considering for having it done. Except for only a few certain threads where it's allowed, pricing is generally frowned upon in the forums here, and in some cases it's even against forum rules. Not to mention, asking for anything like submitting what the actual pricing is in something like having a calibration done, is the last thing that is probably needed in this thread, and is what many might even consider to be attempt to try start all the various calibrators to try and out bid each other for the lowest cost. Many of the calibrators mentioned, also have their own website either that they link to, or at least mention their website in a way that you can easily find it. Visit their websites, as usually all their different levels of available services and calibration options and prices are listed on their websites.

I am not a calibrator but have paid to have it done. It takes 3-5 hours once the person enters your house and that is to do Video only (no audio). They have a large trunk of equipment with them which I sure would not want to drag around the country! If the person does this for a living, his meter probably cost 5-10 thousand Dollars plus the software and signal source hardware. To do this for a living you need to be experienced and know what you are doing. How much do you think someone with thousands of dollars of equipment and years of experience would charge per hour? How much would you charge for an hour of your time and the use of your equipment and knowledge? You probably need to read the sticky posts at the top of this forum to understand what is involved and then if you are interested in having a display calibrated call some pros in your area to get a quot.

My pricing is at www.accucalhd.com/pricing.htm. My video tools are at www.accucalhd.com/services.htm. A laser based set is very difficult to measure because of monochromatic light. Only use someone with a spectrophotometer with a 5 nm bandwidth or less. Mitsubishi DLP units are also very difficult to get good results from because of color management system errors.

I thanks Umr for been so kind and send me his prices and what hi use.

Johnla and Aircapes you guys thinks that we are in Cuba or in the old soviet Union.
You do not have to tell me all of that, All I ask was ball park nothing else; If the calibrators like Umr send me their prices then I can choose; I f one of you guys send me what it cost you then ok. That does not means that it will cost me that amount.
We do not live in a secret social government or AVS forum.

D-Nice calibrated my Pioneer PDP-4280HD this past weekend and the results, as expected given his stellar reputation, were excellent.

Just a bit of background...I work as a television technical director and consider myself pretty demanding in regards to image quality.

I would like to point out a couple of things, though.

First, he is an excellent service provider, professional polite and most importantly, an overall true gentleman.

Second, he has the ability to look beyond the meter and the resulting numbers, charts, and graphs, and use his experience, knowledge and artistic abilities to achieve an outstanding image given the limitations of a display. What I mean is he has the skill, knowledge and eye to make decisions on how to minimize the weaknesses of a display and maximize its strengths and as a result, eke out the best possible performance.

This, I believe, is where the "art" of calibration lies and where he truly excels. I feel it is this rare ability to combine the technical with the artistic that makes him a master of his craft.

I just posted a shout-out to Greg Erianne (Connecticut THX Certified Calibrator) in the thread: Official KDL..EX500/501.

He calibrated my Sony 46EX500 HDTV and I'm very satisfied....

I have been tossing the idea around to have my TV calibrated when I buy it, I'm in Toronto and would never have known who to use, I talked to Michael this morning and he sounded very interested in what I had to say.

Reading this last post has assured me that if I invest in Michael's time I will be very pleased in the end result, I'm also very happy that this post has backed up what I felt about Michael after talking to him this morning, Michael has just earned my business.

I will post my comments after Michael does his thing with my TV, Thanks, Tom

I will be sure to do that, I'm going to pull the trigger on either the Samsung PN58C6440 which in Canada is a great display and an awesome picture or the new 60PX950 which after all said done comes to about $400 plus more and that can be my stand for the TV.

I'm not a 3D guy, I bought my daughter, ( Hannah ) a 46" LCD Samsung for the family room and she loves that for her Wii and blueray. I'm also not a gamer, I like movies, general TV and sports.

I have seen the 6400 in a friends home and the pic is awesome, I have also seen the PK950 in a friends home and it doesn't look any better than the 6400, once the TV is in my rec room I forget every other TV and enjoy what I have, I'm just having a hard time deciding which one,

But for sure when I get either one calibrated I will post the results so others can benefit, thanks, Tom

I had my Samsung LN55C650 LCD flat panel TV calibrated by Greg Erianne of All High Def (allhighdef.com) of Watertown, CT. I had been a bit skeptical of what the calibration could accomplish, given the erratic quality of picture content from TV sources, whether delivered by cable or satellite or antenna. By that I mean the sometimes dramatic differences in lighting, hue, contrast etc from scene to scene even within the same show.

After having the set calibrated, I am convinced that it was well worth the very reasonable expense. As I now understand, having the set's picture tuned to a steady and accurate baseline for grayscale, white balance, gamma, custom color space etc greatly reduces my need to tweak settings while watching a show, a habit which has always driven my wife crazy.

Yes, I may still bump the backlighting up or down a bit, or adjust the tint to get the most natural-looking picture, but I find myself doing that much less than before, and most of the time I am delighted by how fine and true the picture looks "as is" and other than that occasional adjustment of lighting or hue, I can relax and leave all the other settings alone. Freed from obsessive tweaking and re-tweaking, I am now enjoying and appreciating this fine TV more than I ever expected to. Whether I'm watching TV or DVD the picture looks great all the time.

And Greg Erianne impressed me and my wife considerably with his professionalism and attention to detail. We do not take it lightly when inviting a new person into our home. Greg arrived at our house right on time, and was very pleasant and interesting to talk with. He then went straight to work, and about 4 hours later had completed a full calibration, complete with printed documentation of the before-and-after settings as well as a full "lab bench" report showing before and after results for RGB Balance, Gamma Point, Gamma Luminance, Color Temp, Gamut CIE and DeltaE 1994.

More important, to me, was what my eyes saw; I don't pretend to be as technically knowledgeable as many of the posters here, but I know what I like, and I really like the picture I'm seeing on my TV - I thought that I liked it already, but now I can see an undeniable improvement and stability.

One last thing: I'm a subscriber to Netflix streaming video over my home's wi-fi network, but had been greatly frustrated by an inability to adjust basic settings like color level or brightness when watching a Netflix movie. Greg set up both Day and Night versions of calibrated settings for when my TV is streaming Netflix movies, AND showed me how I can modify those settings as needed. I could not be a more satisfied customer, and would without hesitation recommend his services to anyone in Greg's service range, which I believe encompasses parts of Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey.

Hi htwaits. Greg Erianne's user name here in AVS is gerianne. I will also post my review to the official owner's thread for this model TV, as you suggest. Thanks for your help!

AVS Banff, aka Bob Bopp

Had my Panasonic 65VT25 calibrated today by Lee Gallagher. Lee was nice enough to fly in from Arizona to do only 2 jobs in Albuquerque. He spent nearly 6 hours working on my TV and as many hours talking and answering questions while he worked. The results are excellent and well worth the cost. Lee is highly recommended.

Thanks for your Report!

Done, thanks.

This was just posted at the Don't Dump Your CRT RPTV! thread -

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...9#post19670799

post #7698

RPTV Calibration by Mr. Bob

My first post but I wanted to let folks know what a great job Mr. Bob did in calibrating my seven year old Pioneer Elite Pro 630HD. I had it calibrated right after I bought it but have had nothing done to it since. The picture had gotten dark and muddy with poor shadow detail and colors were just so so. I was thinking of getting a plasma and giving this to the kids but I wanted to try to save a really great TV. Well, all I can say is WOW. I do not recall the picture looking this good even when new. These old CRT's can be great if property calibrated.

Since he left (actually since before he left) I have been reviewing scenes from my BD and HDDVD collection as well as HD satellite channels. The colors pop, it is really great in dark scenes with renewed shadow detail as well as improved convergence, focus and geometry. Everything looked absolutely great. No need for a new TV now.

OK, back to lurking and enjoying my new Pioneer RPTV

Mark

Bill Philips just did a report on the success of my coaching him regarding the blue flash and intermittent problems on his Pioneer Elite 710, which applies to the 510/610/710 series of CRT Elites, the 532/582/642 series of non-Elites of the same model year, and a major number of the same units of the following model year as well.

It's post 2462 at this thread -

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...1#post19749142

Mr Bob

Dog Weil with Clearly Resolved calibrated my Panny 54VT25 today and he did a great job. He spend a lot of time explaining all the measurements and showing me the adjustments he was making and how they affected the screen's picture. He asked about my viewing, the inputs I used, etc. He also clearly explained how to use the different picture modes so I can understand which mode might be best for different viewing conditions.

Needless to say the results are awesome!. I highly would recommend Doug.

I will post in the Panny vt25 thread also.

DroptheRemote