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CARA - Room Acoustic Software

We're very much not into doing sales-pitch type posts, but after reading through several threads in this forum, we realized that questions regarding software for room acoustics were frequent enough that if we tried to answer every thread, we'd *really* feel obnoxious!

So... the lesser of two evils

CARA is a comprehensive room acoustic modelling package designed and developed by German physicist: Dr. Ulrich Thomanek. Dr. Thomanek worked with ELAC GmbH for many years and used computer models to bring their loudspeakers to be the number two in Germany.

He started ELAC Technische Software as a spinoff dedicated to his computer programs associated with loudspeaker modelling and room acoustics. CARA 2.0 is the product.

Rather than get into too many details here, I'll send you to www.cara.de where they have lots of information regarding CARA and a walkthrough. The site is in both English and German.

Early last year, Rhintek became the US representative for ETS and CARA. We have a strong background in software development, but are relatively new to the high-end audio industry. Our website is: www.rhintek.com

Thanks for your time, I'll probably be lurking around here on occasion as it looks like this forum is a good place for me to gain more understanding.

Kristin VanVranken,
Rhintek Incorporated
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2 questions and some comments:

1) Does CARA include speaker info for the Dynaduio Contour 2.8 tower?

2) Will the soon to be released 2.1 software version (due the middle of 12/01) be a free upgrade to those that purchase version 2.0?

I use a software based (MLS) impulse response system (ETF5 $150) with a calibrated microphone.

This system provides amazing results (impulse response, frequency response, waterfall charts) for analysis and recording of my changes. It also does so in pseudo-real-time i.e. I can make changes and watch them appear as frequency graphs on the screen 4 seconds later.

CARA sounds like the perfect companion for me.
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