Omnia Audio Omnia.11 - Manual (Page 83)

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To achieve maximum sound quality, the kind that attracts and holds listeners, those channels will need specialized
dynamics processing capable of creating great sound regardless of program content and bitrate. They will need Sensus.
With Sensus, the innovative algorithm, it is now possible to have consistently high audio quality with a minimum of
codec-induced artifacts. Sensus creates highly listenable audio lacking the dull, muffled, ‘swirley’ sound usually
associated with codecs operated at extremely low bitrates.
So… what’s so smart about Sensus?
The fact is, Sensus is smart. In real time it predicts program content that will be troublesome for the codec, and by
modifying it’s own algorithms can make appropriate changes to the program material before it ever reaches the codec! 1
The result is consistently high audio quality through a codec-based system, even at very low (18kbps – 21kbps) bitrates.
The human voice is very difficult to code at low bitrates without quality and intelligibility suffering. But Omnia.11 with
Sensus can generate clean, smooth, crystal clear audio that’s consistently great sounding no matter what the codec or
bitrate is.
--- Important Note ---
1 It is extremely important (especially for bitrates below 96kbps) not to directly audition the HD output of the Omnia.11
for audio quality without the audio being first routed through a codec!
Why? The processed HD output has been ‘pre-corrected’ for the characteristics of the following codec and because of this
the audio may contain strange sounding artifacts that will imitate the ‘inverse’ of what that codec will do. Because of this
the audio exiting the Omnia.11 may be unpleasant to listen to and will certainly be inferior to that which will exit the codec
later on. In other words, what you hear at the output will bear no relationship to the audio quality that will be achieved after
the audio has passed through the coding process!
Need a corollary to this?
It’s like trying to taste a pizza while still in the grocery store staring at the raw ingredients that haven’t been purchased yet!