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Are there any differences between SRS Volume IQ and Breakaway? Or IS Volume IQ Breakaway?
For SRS Volume IQ see:
http://www.srslabs.com/partners/aetech/VolumeIQ.aspHi Benny!
Breakaway is not Volume IQ. Their job descriptions are very similar, but the algorithms have nothing to do with each other.
Hm.. Volume IQ.. Where have I heard that name before.. Oh that’s right! Volume Logic. My old product. I might just shoot off an e-mail to Plantronics about that one 😉.
I’ve never heard Volume IQ, but judging from a few faked demos* of other SRS products, I have no reason to believe it’s any good 😉.
*Faked Demo: Go to the Consumer products Demo Page. Listen the video for Christina Aguilera – Come on over. Nice big difference between before and after. Next, acquire a copy of the same song from wherever you usually acquire music from. You’ll notice the original is MUCH wider. They mixed the "before" example down to nearly mono, to exaggerate the difference. Wow indeed!
///Leif
[quote author=”Leif”]Breakaway is not Volume IQ. Their job descriptions are very similar, but the algorithms have nothing to do with each other.[/quote]
Yes, obviously that’s right. But when you read the description on the website of SRS, do you think Volume IQ is better than Breakaway?quote :SRS Volume IQ uses psychoacoustic principals to analyze and address the perceived level (volume) changes in an audio signal. Unlike traditional AGC processes, SRS Volume IQ is based on human loudness perception models and multi-band signal analysis.I doubt it’s even close to as good as Breakaway. And for reference, the "technology" they are describing was already in-use by the late 1960s. Breakaway more-so represents late 1990s dsp technology done right – something that imo nobody else has really done yet.
Benny, you missed this part:
quote :I’ve never heard Volume IQ, but judging from a few faked demos* of other SRS products, I have no reason to believe it’s any good.Actually, I heard a backroad story about Volume IQ – apparently, they were trying to get it integrated at a major cable box manufacturer, but the algorithm performed so poorly that the response was "there’s no way we’re putting this in our box".
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