OPTIMOD-TV DIGITAL
OPERATION
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We have designed these presets so that the loudest sounds will be at the same level
as the loudest sounds produced by our older analog Model 8182A Optimod-TV
processor when set for general programming according to the recommended set-
tings shown in its manual. This facilitates installation of the 8382 in a market that is
already using 8182As, guaranteeing that loudness will be uniform as a viewer
changes channels, thus preventing viewer irritation.
The music presets are essentially different. They provide “FM radio-style” processing
and are based on Five-Band presets from Orban's 8400 FM digital processor. As you
go from less to more with these presets, the air sound will become louder, but (as
with any processor) processing artifacts will increase. The single
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control
changes many different subjective setup control settings simultaneously according
to a table that we have created in the 8382's permanent ROM (Read-Only Memory).
In this table are sets of subjective setup control settings that provide, in our opinion,
the most favorable tradeoff between loudness, density, brightness, and audible dis-
tortion for a given amount of processing.
We believe that most 8382 users will never need to go beyond the
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level
of control, because the combinations of subjective setup control settings produced
by this control have been optimized by Orban's audio processing experts on the ba-
sis of years of experience designing audio processing, and upon hundred of hours of
listening tests.
Please note that the highest
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settings for the four music presets are pur-
posely designed to cause unpleasant distortion and processing artifacts! This helps
assure you that the setting of the
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control that you choose is optimum,
because turning the control up to this point will cause the sound quality to become
obviously unacceptable.
About the 8382’s Signal Processing Features
Signal Flow
The signal flows through the 8382 through the following blocks (see page 6-56):
Input Conditioning
, including sample rate conversion, defeatable 30Hz high-
pass filtering, and defeatable phase rotation
Stereo Enhancement
Two-Band Gated AGC
, with target-zone window gating and silence gating
Equalization
, including high-frequency enhancement
Multiband Compression
with embedded HF clipping and additional HF limiter
“
Intelligent” Clipping
with distortion control, distortion cancellation, and
anti-aliasing
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