acoustics

>The chip is popularly known as a filter, which is used for acoustics in mobile telephones; clueless NYT.

It more or less removes the room acoustics from the equation, as well as the speakers coloration.

We're used to acoustics changing a bit -- but having a half-decent base-line would probably be great.

Not surprisingly, sounding like a Strad involves mimicking the mechanics and internal acoustics of a Strad.

Just want to add that despite the amusing anecdote, it's a lovely building with wonderful acoustics.

Headphones are great for minimizing issues of room acoustics, but they are not eliminated.

But with large rooms, you do need to consider acoustics of course.

You'll usually close-mike the sound, so you don't get any room acoustics.

That said, I do believe that the speaker and acoustics of the room determine the objective measures much more than the signal chain...

Getting the sound right takes a long time, but my end conclusion was that suspending bunch of cardboard everywhere seemed to negate the poor acoustics of the room.

Same thing could theoretically be done for acoustics.

Their VP of Engineering has a PhD in acoustics and they employ other specialist PhD electrical engineers..

I wonder if the design/acoustics of the ear pieces contribute to some of the "better sound".

They mention the fact that Beats uses generic $1.80 off the shelf speakers within despite claiming things like "Fine-tuned acoustics for clarity, breadth and balance".

I presume that knowledge of acoustics, electronics, digital signal processing, software dev and probably more is needed to transform this idea into a "killer" product.

Acoustics and audio processing are pretty good applications of some of this theory.