Professional Home Cinema and HiFi Calibration

Two-Channel Systems

This is where we help you extract the very best performance from your system. You’ve taken the time to have a demonstration, listened to our advice, and chosen a system that suits your ears, budget and room. But simply placing the equipment in position is not enough to unlock its full potential.

The placement of your speakers, the angle of toe-in, rake, listening position and other room-dependent factors all contribute to the final performance. These details can be the difference between a system sounding dull and lacking bass, and one that delivers tremendous depth, a wide soundstage, precise imaging, expressive vocals and impactful low-end authority.

When installing your speakers, our technicians work to ensure you get the most from your system. While objective measurements can help, we always finish with extensive critical listening to confirm the system has that musical, engaging, foot-tapping quality that makes listening truly involving.

Home Cinema Calibration

We primarily work with ARC and DIRAC; however, if your receiver uses Audyssey, MCACC, YPAO or even a 1/3-octave EQ, we are fully able to calibrate it.

Modern AV receivers and processors do far more than simple parametric EQ. They can address impulse response control, magnitude response, channel gain, phase inversion and more. However, digital correction alone cannot resolve every room-related issue and shouldn’t be relied upon exclusively to optimise system performance.

Before any digital calibration begins, we always start by listening to the system and mechanically tuning it to the room. Speaker, subwoofer and seating placement are crucial for achieving smooth bass response, an enveloping soundstage and clean, natural panning. For systems not using in-wall speakers, we will fine-tune their positioning to best suit the room. This reduces the amount of digital correction required and results in significant sonic improvements.

The next stage is to mic the room and run test sweeps. Depending on the system being calibrated, several detailed steps follow to refine and optimise performance. Our engineers take great care to extract every last bit of capability from your system.