10 Things People Love About SoundCheck (as told to us by our customers)

Valentine’s Day is all about love, so it seems appropriate to share some of the responses from a recent customer meeting when we asked our customers what they love about SoundCheck.

• The Equation Editor – this lets me bring my own custom equations right into SoundCheck’s test sequences and have them applied to data. No more exporting to MATLAB to crunch the numbers – it all happens in SoundCheck, in real time.
• The confidence limits feature. I only found out about this recently (despite using SoundCheck for over a decade) and wow! I can actually see whether or not my measurement is likely to be accurate or if it’s affected by background noise. And I can even tweak my test stimulus to optimize it for speed while observing any trade off in accuracy.
• Listen’s Audio Interfaces. I recently replaced my RME with AmpConnect 621 and I’m glad I did – the easy setup with just one cable and seamless integration and self test with SoundCheck makes it much faster and easier to configure. And my colleagues can’t mess up my tests by tweaking my knobs.
• The price tag. I recently evaluated several different measurement systems and although, on the face of it, SoundCheck seemed to be in the middle of the pack, once you dig deep into its capabilities, there’s a lot more flexibility and measurement capability, especially to develop customized tests, than I found with other systems. This makes it really good value.
• Distortion measurements. SoundCheck’s distortion measurement toolbox is second to none! Steve Temme is an expert on distortion and this is clear when you use SoundCheck. From basic THD and crest factor to normalized harmonic distortion with the flexibility to select the precise harmonics to analyze, to the latest perceptual methods for both harmonic and transient distortion, every algorithm you might need is included. (Editor’s note: you’re going to love what we’re introducing in SoundCheck 23)
• The new Python step option is amazing! No more need to have a full LabView license to make custom steps. I can simply write my own python code to control my device and execute it in a SoundCheck test sequence.
• It works seamlessly with my factory automation. It took some time and expertise to configure, but its ability to interface with my custom automation and database through the TCP-IP interface is quite remarkable.
• It really does have limitless flexibility. Every time I have another measurement I can’t figure out how to make, I call the support team, expecting to be told it can’t be done. Yet every time they have shown me a way to do it. I’m amazed!
• As many calibrated signal paths as I want. I have a complex test application with a very high channel count and a mix of audio drivers – this is the only measurement system that I know of that can handle this
• The SoundCheck database. We implemented it about a year ago and it’s been very successful for us. Our test stations in both Europe and Asia upload measurements to the database using the SoundCheck “Save to Database” step.

What do you love about SoundCheck? Let us know.