Episodes

  • Deeper, Lower, Smoother, Better

    Deeper, Lower, Smoother, Better
    Sep 3 2025

    It's been a while since we talked about bass, and in the meantime we've learned some things.


    Particularly...


    • How to place your subs for best results


    • Active Acoustics (Trinnov Waveforming and DIRAC ART)


    • Using digital EQ and limiters to achieve better bass extension


    • Infra-bass - how it's done and what it does


    • Updates on our Level 2 training course


    Plus the usual swearing and nonsense.

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    51 mins
  • Live from Delli Towers

    Live from Delli Towers
    May 2 2025

    Tom's now on the 3rd iteration of his cinema demo room, at his facility near Stafford..


    This one is pretty special, so this episode Owen interviewed Tom to tell us what he's done.

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    41 mins
  • Tom and Owen go to Spain

    Tom and Owen go to Spain
    Mar 30 2025

    We went all the way to Barçelona, just to build a million pound cinema (OK, we helped a bit), with Trinnov, Officina Acustica, Perlisten and others, and we had a blast.


    We also took some training and went round the show.


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    41 mins
  • Calibration - the Magic Wand

    Calibration - the Magic Wand
    Mar 4 2025

    Although we're a podcast we also run an introductory calibration course for our industry friends using RoomEQ Wizard software.


    This time we're joined by Tom Lanham (Lano), lead engineer at Wall of Sound, who was one of our first course attendees and a bit of a star pupil.


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    45 mins
  • 2025 catch up

    2025 catch up
    Jan 7 2025
    No particular theme for this episode - we accidentally took a few weeks off with our day jobs so we thought we'd ramble a bit and get caught up!

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    36 mins
  • Tom and Owen go to space

    Tom and Owen go to space
    Oct 9 2024
    The RP22 performance targets cover timbre (timber if you're Northern), dynamics and spatial resolution. Spatial resolution has the longest set of metrics - there's 11 of them. This time out we go though and explain the spatial metrics in a bit more detail, what they're for and how they make your cinema better. Less sweary than some episodes - we're trying to behave properly. Ish.

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    38 mins
  • All the feels

    All the feels
    Sep 5 2024
    This time, emotional hot-head Owen and calm, relaxed Tom discuss the emotional impact of a cinema system. We know that a better engineered system creates a deeper emotional connection with the audience, but why is that? Come with us on the hero's journey and find out.

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    40 mins
  • Deeper into RP22 - Timber!

    Deeper into RP22 - Timber!
    Aug 24 2024

    This time out we look at the second group of RP22 metrics - timbre. The dictionary defines timbre as 'the characteristic quality of a sound, independent of pitch and loudness, from which its source or manner of production can be inferred.'


    Making sure the sound from every speaker is consistent, that every speaker tracks the target curve faithfully, and that the whole system has deep enough bass extension, is a tough engineering challenge. As Tom says, you won't hit these numbers by accident.


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    49 mins