dbx-tv Total Cal In-Home Tuning System Recognized as 2023 CES Innovation Awards Honoree

dbx-tv announced Total Cal, a patent-pending in-home audio tuning system has been selected as a CES 2023 Innovation Award Honoree. Total Cal allows consumers to correct and customize sound quality with a simple, user-friendly app, and was selected for its ability to improve the sound of televisions, soundbars, and portable/home speakers. The announcement was in anticipation of CES 2023, where Total Cal will be demonstrated.
 
Expanding on the company's range of loudness, volume and spatial enhancement DSP solutions already offered to consumer electronics manufacturers, dbx-tv’s Total Cal allows users to fine-tune the audio performance of their equipment - TV sound, soundbars, and home speakers - for their individual listening environment. Controlled via a user-friendly app, Total Cal detects and corrects for room acoustic issues in the home, ensuring all material sounds exactly the way it was intended.

"The Total Cal system represents a breakthrough in consumer audio, bringing in-home tuning technology to budget-friendly electronics. Total Cal makes it easy for every consumer to experience high quality, accurate, and customized sound without the need for any audio expertise or complex A/V equipment," says Les Tyler, the inventor of automatic equalization technology and President of dbx-tv.

Based on dbx-tv’s professional audio measurement and calibration algorithms, Total Cal measures the device’s performance in the room at a variety of listening positions then re-tunes the audio parameters to provide customized, accurate sound quality. 

"dbx-tv’s sole focus is improving the sound of consumer electronics through clever audio processing - without increasing hardware costs for manufacturers or consumers. By harnessing the power of cloud computing and the mobile devices consumers already own, Total Cal works with the industry standard SoCs and DSPs manufacturers already design around, enabling them to deliver high-end audio processing in cost-conscious products," adds Timothy Brault, Director of Sales and Marketing for dbx-tv.
dbx-tv offers Total Cal to TV and speaker OEM/ODM manufacturers as a companion application to the company’s Total Sonics audio post-processing that fits into most of today’s TV SoC ICs. Products utilizing Total Cal are expected to reach consumers early in 2023. Total Cal, along with dbx-tv’s other audio processing technologies, will be on display and available for demonstration at CES 2023 in suite 306 of the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino. dbx-tv has over 40 years of experience improving audio in TVs and other small speaker devices. As TVs become thinner and bezels disappeared, the sound suffers from limited maximum volume, shrinking stereo image, and crippled low frequencies. dbx-tv’s Total Sonics suite combines several intelligent, innovative DSP audio enhancement technologies to address these challenges in a package that is an affordable, efficient technology for TV makers to better match audio quality to today’s high quality pictures. Born from the pro audio legacy of dbx, dbx-tv has earned multiple television audio technology awards and has improved sound in over a billion devices worldwide. 
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