Theater Tool - calibrate your home theater app for iPhone and iPad
4.0 (
830 ratings )
Utilities
Entertainment
Developer: Deep Focus Technologies
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years agoFirst release : 30 Mar 2009
App size: 108.23 Kb
iPhone OS 3.0 tested
Theater Tool allows you to calibrate your home theater speaker levels without purchasing a Sound Pressure Level (SPL) meter like RadioShacks 33-2055 or 33-4050 which can cost more than $40. Turn on the pink-noise generator in your receiver or amp, lock a reference level in the tool, zoom in on it and set the other speakers to match.
The application also includes a distance/delay calculator to assist in setting an appropriate delay time between front and rear speakers.
This application requires an iPhone or suitable microphone for an iPod Touch.
Latest reviews of Theater Tool - calibrate your home theater app for iPhone and iPad
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Inexpensive and pretty accurate
I am a home theater nut and a friend asked me to review this application for him. I have an Onkyo TX-SR804 which already has built-in calibration. I first reset my receiver to the defaults and performed the calibration with the provided microphone from Onkyo and recorded the results. I then started Theater Tool and verified the results with the measured distances and the application with the iPhones built-in mic and the levels kept pretty flat. I reset the receiver to the defaults and performed the calibration with just the Theater Tool software. Where it falters is its lack of equalization. I am not sure if the iPhones microphone is sensitive enough to pick up equalization, but it would be nice to have the option with an external microphone. The results from Theater Tool were good, but not as good as the receivers built-in calibration because of the equalization. However, I still highly recommend this application especially at this price point.
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I am a home theater nut and a friend asked me to review this application for him. I have an Onkyo TX-SR804 which already has built-in calibration. I first reset my receiver to the defaults and performed the calibration with the provided microphone from Onkyo and recorded the results. I then started Theater Tool and verified the results with the measured distances and the application with the iPhones built-in mic and the levels kept pretty flat. I reset the receiver to the defaults and performed the calibration with just the Theater Tool software. Where it falters is its lack of equalization. I am not sure if the iPhones microphone is sensitive enough to pick up equalization, but it would be nice to have the option with an external microphone. The results from Theater Tool were good, but not as good as the receivers built-in calibration because of the equalization. However, I still highly recommend this application especially at this price point.