My response to Avii

I do hear the distortion right at 3:12s on the Trifield center.

I also hear it in Direct Preset mode which is exactly Full Scale 0dB with +3dB tweak, it won`t make something clip that isn`t clipping/distorting already. It`s exactly the same as if you connected your source direct DSP Speakers.

In Trifield I can`t guarantee center won`t clip (even with EQ Flat) but in practice and in lot of measuring I have yet to see Full Scale Stereo add up on the center such that it makes the center clip.

I also looked at the track in Audacity. Around 3:12 there is an extremely short and small clip in the original track. Too small to hear, no biggy.

Between 3:12 and 3:16 there is tons of headroom (this is right where distortion is for a couple seconds).

At 3:16 there is significant clipping, but I have seen worse and you usually don`t hear it something like that.

So my conclusion is there is real distortion (not clipping) and the +3dB Tweak is now letting HEAR what was always there.

The distortion may be amplified by Trifield processing because it is harder to hear in Direct Preset, but I can easily hear in Direct. I`m sure I`d hear it too if I wired Transporter to DSP Speakers.

I will try recording (when I find some time) the Center to see if Trifield with +3dB some how caused more clipping, but by what I have heard and seen so far I believe +3dB is showing it self off in how well it can now resolve things. The original track IS distorted. Surprising, on an otherwise clean recording. I`ll try it with headphones at work too.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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