WaveForming completely redefines low-frequency reproduction in home cinemas: a new algorithm combined with home theater design guidelines and recommended practices to deliver an unprecedented level of performance and an entirely new bass experience, free of room modes.
The development of this new groundbreaking innovation from Trinnov Audio started more than 6 years ago and truly sets a new reference in low-frequency reproduction.
A UNIQUE APPROACH
Attempts to improve low-frequency reproduction in small rooms, past or present, all have something fundamental in common: their sole intention is to attenuate the impact of the room's modes, usually with brute-force solutions. The natural laws of physics intrinsically limit each of these approaches.
WaveForming takes a different approach, much more logical and simple in principle, but extremely complex from a scientific perspective: attacking the source before it becomes a problem. In other words, instead of deploying heavy-handed treatments to mitigate the consequences of room modes, we limit the creation of room modes in the first place.
WaveForming relies on 4 major innovations, including the MSMC approach, arguably the most significant one.
MSMC stands for Multiple Sources, Multiple Controllers and truly differentiates WaveForming from any other low-frequency optimization technology.
With other methods, each low-frequency source (usually a subwoofer) is driven and considered individually. WaveForming drives multiple sources individually and combines them together to create a single acoustic source.
This single acoustical source forms the appropriate wavefront (Wavefront Synthesis) for the acoustic environment. In practical terms, WaveForming steers bass towards the listening area and away from the most reflecting surfaces (via Acoustic Reshaping) to limit and control the amount of reflections created in the room.
In the graph above, we illustrate the difference between the SSMC approach and our MSMC approach.
With MSMC approach, every potential and relevant source of bass can also be used as one of the Multiple Controllers, and effectively absorb remaining reflections.
This whole process relies on specific 3D acoustic field measurements, which provides a 100% understanding of the room.
WaveForming only operates in the time domain and is combined with frequency-specific processing. This delivers very natural-sounding low frequencies which are free of any synthetic artifacts.
NEW HIGHER LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE
WaveForming resets and expands the expectation in terms of bass reproduction.
The performance is no longer defined by the frequency (which mostly depends on the system design) but shifts the focus from frequency response to decay time (which previously used to be defined by the room acoustics only).
By effectively eliminating room modes, WaveForming dramatically reduces decay time down to 20Hz.
Attenuating the reverberation time of low-frequency sounds profoundly transforms the bass, adding more clarity, impact, and definition.
SEAT-TO-SEAT CONSISTENCY
As previously mentioned, WaveForming virtually eliminates all low-frequency room modes, and therefore enables extreme consistency (frequency and amplitude) across the entire listening area. The fact that ref
