One final word in summing up the metrics is that a truly great home cinema has excellent seat-to-seat consistency. Dialing in the money seat is a must but don’t leave your clients friends and family out. It is possible in any room, despite room problems, the MLP can be perfected. It is the sign of a great designer and calibrator to make the whole gang happy. Listen in each seat when reviewing the metrics.
As you can see, many of the metrics seem to be directly related to the design of a system. It may be too late to save some systems, but the lessons learned are still valuable. It’s also important as you may be asked to offer recommendations to upgrade an ailing system.
