About IMPRINT
VISION VS. REALITY
All good music starts as an artist’s vision. After countless hours of rehearsing, recording and mixing, that vision is ready for us to hear on discs, radio and other media. But do we hear it as the artist created it? Unfortunately, the reality is that we are almost never able to listen to it in the exact way the artist intended. Especially when we are listening in a car.
CARS ARE TERRIBLE LISTENING SPACES
Car interiors are full of materials that obstruct and degrade sound quality. For example, windows amplify and reflect high frequencies. Seat and dashboard coverings change certain frequencies. Carpets absorb and suppress mid frequencies. Graphic and parametric EQs are only partial remedies for these problems. In addition, the speakers are not located at equal distances from listeners, creating an unbalanced, uncentred sound stage. Time correction can help fix this, but only for one listening position.
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INTRODUCING IMPRINT
These acoustical problems are so severe that no correction system has been able to overcome them. Until now, with the introduction of IMPRINT, Alpine provides a hardware/software combination that not only solves these problems, it actually improves the sound stage, tonal balance and definition - and does it automatically, in a matter of minutes!
HOW IMPRINT IS DIFFERENT
IMPRINT using MultEQ is superior to other equalization systems in five ways.
•It is the only system that measures the entire listening area, capturing time domain information from each listening location and applying a proprietary method for processing it to represent all seat locations. This gives the people in each seat the optimal listening experience.
•It corrects both time and frequency problems, for an improved soundstage and smoother, more natural sound.
•It uses dynamic frequency allocation to apply hundreds of points of correction to those areas where the sound problems are greatest.
•It determines optimized blending points for low frequency crossovers.
•It provides, in minutes, vehicle sound tuning that generally takes skilled professionals days to accomplish.
