THX Certified,Certified for Windows Vista, ISO 9001 certified, ISI ... Quality or base standards?
@desiibond, apart from the rigorous way that you've told us about how THX certifies theaters, how about sharing some technical data on THX home speakers instead of their marketing speak? Drop the certification guarantees (we all know how that works) and get down to the basics.
The wiki on THX is also quite specific on the environment of the setup. Couldn't see anything on how THX applies to speakers only. How do they certify a set of speakers? Shed some light, will you?
I'm no audiophile myself, but basing quality on a commercial certification sounds lame to me.
On quality certification in general, two lines about one of the most used certifications (ISO 9000 series) which most people believe denotes quality from wikipedia.
IMHO, products that strive to just meet certain standards instead of trying to exceed them or set newer standards are always going to be lame. Always.
@desiibond, apart from the rigorous way that you've told us about how THX certifies theaters, how about sharing some technical data on THX home speakers instead of their marketing speak? Drop the certification guarantees (we all know how that works) and get down to the basics.
The wiki on THX is also quite specific on the environment of the setup. Couldn't see anything on how THX applies to speakers only. How do they certify a set of speakers? Shed some light, will you?
Source: THX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe THX system is not a recording technology, and it does not specify a sound recording format: all sound formats, whether digital (Dolby Digital, SDDS) or analog (Dolby Stereo, Ultra-Stereo), can be "shown in THX." THX is mainly a quality assurance system. THX-certified theaters provide a high-quality, predictable playback environment to ensure that any film soundtrack mixed in THX will sound as near as possible to the intentions of the mixing engineer. THX also provides certified theaters with a special crossover circuit whose use is part of the standard. Certification of an auditorium entails specific acoustic and other technical requirements; architectural requirements include a floating floor, baffled and acoustically treated walls, no parallel walls (to reduce standing waves), a perforated screen (to allow center channel continuity), and NC30 rating for background noise.
I'm no audiophile myself, but basing quality on a commercial certification sounds lame to me.
On quality certification in general, two lines about one of the most used certifications (ISO 9000 series) which most people believe denotes quality from wikipedia.
Source:ISO 9000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaISO 9001 is not in any way an indication that products produced using its certified systems are any good. A company can intend to produce a poor quality product and providing it does so consistently and with the proper documentation can put an ISO 9001 stamp on it
IMHO, products that strive to just meet certain standards instead of trying to exceed them or set newer standards are always going to be lame. Always.