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mogorf /t/1523128/onkyo-does-it-again#post_24499713
How much is the royalty-fee of Audyssey? How much is the cost of developing a proprietary room correction system? Do you have first hand information?
Development cost is significant...
Writing code, debugging and validation, plus time. Note that I was the program manager for a
major audio brand that developed its own room EQ software and its cost was about $485K...
Its cost was amortized into (2) brands and over a family of products..
Note that each DSP supplier such as
ADI, Cirrus Logic, TI have their own library of
royalty-free post-processing modes including room EQ, virtualizers, MP3 restore, headphone surround, bass extension...
They do
not carry a major marketing name, but in today's cash & carry price ultra-competitive AVR market they work just fine for the entry level AVR user and save the brands some $..
Just my $0.05... 👍😉