CARA
Computer Aided Room Acoustics 2.2 Plus
ELAC Technische Software GmbH

Now includes a tutorial CD to get you up and running using CARA faster than ever! CARA is designed to assist you in achieving perfect sound at home. It will help with room design by letting you create a floor plan up to 100m X 100m with added features for celing angles, pillars, etc. Databases for room materials and loudspeakers are enhanced by editing capabilities allowing you to add your own custom elements. Numerous calculation features to evaluate a variety of room effects. Graphs and diagrams including 3D picture sequences will help locate the optimum position of loudspeakers in the described space. Features include: * Room Design Wizard offers a number of predefined floor plan templates. * Converter window for changing dimensions from standard to metric. * Loudspeaker Editor models 1-5 way loudspeakers, active/passive subwoofers, and dipole radiating flat panels. * Can define symmetry constraint options such as equal spacing to front and side walls. * Optimized calculating times so that simple rooms are calculated 1000 times faster than before! * Calculate and evaluate the "Acoustic Ambiance" of the room design using the reverberation time spectrum. * Suggests room modifications to improve the "Acoustic Ambiance" of the modelled room. * Run an "Auralization" and find out how the room acoustics influence music in the modelled room. * Special media player to compare "before" and "after" wave files and hear how room elements affect the acoustics. System requirements: Pentium or better processor, Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4.0/2000, 32MB RAM minimum, 64KB recommended; 300MB+ hard disk space; SVGA monitor (800x600, 16Bpp.).

SoundEasy v 12.00
Bodzio Software

SoundEasy v. 11.00 is a Windows XP/2000 program which operates in time and frequency domains, modeling the complete design and advanced optimization process for up to 5-way loudspeaker systems. It provides for the complex characterization of all drivers. Finite Element Method (FEM) has been developed to handle complex room geometries. The BoxCad program is included with SoundEasy and provides advanced enclosure design. It includes 10 built-in enclosure models, as well as the ability to design your own. The EasyLab-Advanced measurement system now includes 9 measurement screens allowing for analog and digital measurements. SoundEasy is intended for fast Pentium processors such as the Pentium 4(TM) 1.7 GHz; requiring a minimum of 196 Mb RAM of memory. The EasyLab module requires a full duplex 16-bit sound card. Articles written by the designer of SoundEasy have appeared in Speaker Builder and audioXpress magazines. CD with USB port security key.

CD-ROM Preţ: 293.76 €

LspCAD Standard v 6.0
Ingemar Johansson

"After looking over the program and putting it through its paces, I must say that the program has a lot of impressive bells and whistles, especially for the modest [then] price." Vance Dickason, Voice Coil 5/00 Divided into two primary sections, this standard version of the program features box design and crossover design. The comprehensive box design section performs dynamic analysis for a wide variety of enclosures and features optimizing routines. Crossover design includes two passive network routines, Simple and Advanced and can also perform advanced filtering routines on active filter circuits. System requirements: Windows 95/NT/98, 8-12 MB RAM, 2.2 Mb disk space, 640x480 minimum, 1024x768 optimal display resolution, mouse, color printer recommended.

CD-ROM Preţ: 227.28 €

LspCAD Professional v 6.0
Ingemar Johansson

This professional version of Loudspeaker Computer Aided Design adds features to the standard version of this program. Loudspeaker design/modeling software includes capability of using your Windows full-duplex soundcard to preview the sound of your crossover network after design. (Pro version only) Features list: Box utility supports Closed, Vented, Double Tuned Bas Reflex (2 types), Passive Radiator, Bandpass (4 types) Boxes Non-Linearity simulation Box optimization Graphs Frequency and Phase Response Cone Excursion Air Speed in ports Impedance response with phase Group Delay Impulse, step or tone burst response Frequency response (baffle diffraction, listening room) and with standing waves in ports Filter music utility passive crossover utility Port flaring Simple & Advanced Modeling Off axis simulation Import measured SPL and Impedance Data Function Crossover optimization of individual networks or whole system (Note: Professional version only allows a limit to be set on the lowest input impedance) Music Filtering Export Function Active Crossover Utility Active 6th order alignments Snapshot overlays for multiple alignments/crossovers Crossover (Aural) Emultor (Professional only) Common Network (Pro only) Snap Crossover components to E12 or E24 (Pro only) Polar Plot (Pro only).

CD-ROM Preţ: 1077.85 €

Bassbox 6 Pro
Harris Technologies

BassBox 6 Pro is a great program that aids in the design of bass loudspeaker enclosures in two ways. First, it models how a speaker will sound in a variety of boxes. This small-signal analysis includes the amplitude (frequency response) and voice coil impedance response. Second, it models the maximum loudness of the loudspeaker/box combination. This large-signal analysis includes the displacement-limited maximum power response. Once these tools help you decide what size and type of box to use, BassBox will then help you calculate the dimensions of its port, if the design is vented, and the box itself. Other features include: multiple graph overlay capability for easy on-screen comparison; examination of one speaker in several different boxes or several different speakers in the same box; 1000-driver database which can be searched, edited, or added to; acceptance of both Thiele/Small (T/S) and electromechanical (E-M) parameters; allowance for damping specification; manual override of vented box tuning and QL; design capabilities for multiple-vented boxes, custom passive radiator boxes, and both optimum and custom closed boxes; multiple woofer designs including standard, push-pull, and compound (isobaric) acoustical parameters as well as parallel, series and series-parallel electrical parameters; box dimension calculator accommodating many different volume shapes in a 20-volume database; English or metric units; and print capability by most printers supported under Windows95/NT 4 and later. Includes fully illustrated manual.
Requirements--IBM compatible Pentium+; Windows95+ (98), Windows/NT 4+; 16Mb RAM; 15Mb hard disk space; mouse and printer; CD-R compatible CD-ROM drive or 1.44Mb 3.5 disk drive; VGA--640x480 pixels, 256 colors.

1992-2005, CD with printed manual Preţ: 148.90 €

Bassbox 6 Pro Lite
Harris Technologies

BassBox 6 Pro is a great program that aids in the design of bass loudspeaker enclosures in two ways. First, it models how a speaker will sound in a variety of boxes. This small-signal analysis includes the amplitude (frequency response) and voice coil impedance response. Second, it models the maximum loudness of the loudspeaker/box combination. This large-signal analysis includes the displacement-limited maximum power response. Once these tools help you decide what size and type of box to use, BassBox will then help you calculate the dimensions of its port, if the design is vented, and the box itself. Other features include: multiple graph overlay capability for easy on-screen comparison; examination of one speaker in several different boxes or several different speakers in the same box; 1000-driver database which can be searched, edited, or added to; acceptance of both Thiele/Small (T/S) and electromechanical (E-M) parameters; allowance for damping specification; manual override of vented box tuning and QL; design capabilities for multiple-vented boxes, custom passive radiator boxes, and both optimum and custom closed boxes; multiple woofer designs including standard, push-pull, and compound (isobaric) acoustical parameters as well as parallel, series and series-parallel electrical parameters; box dimension calculator accommodating many different volume shapes in a 20-volume database; English or metric units; and print capability by most printers supported under Windows95/NT 4 and later. Includes fully illustrated manual.
Requirements--IBM compatible Pentium+; Windows95+ (98), Windows/NT 4+; 16Mb RAM; 15Mb hard disk space; mouse and printer; CD-R compatible CD-ROM drive or 1.44Mb 3.5 disk drive; VGA--640x480 pixels, 256 colors.

1992-2005, CD Software only-does not include driver database
Preţ: 81.79 €

X*Over 3 Pro
Harris Technologies

This package helps in the design of two-way and three-way passive dividing networks, as well as simple load-compensating circuits, and calculates the component values for many common first-, second-, third-, and fourth-order networks. Two-way designs include Bessel, Butterworth, Chebychev, Gaussian, Legendre, Linear-Phase, and Linkwitz-Riley, while three-ways include 3- and 3.4-octave spreads between crossover frequencies. Other features include design capability for load-compensating circuits such as L-pads, series notch filters, and loudspeaker impedance equalization networks; circuit diagrams with component lists that can be displayed and/or printed; and a new filter for first-order two-way networks, "Solen Split -6dB", in which the high-pass and low-pass halves of the network have Butterworth slopes and are set farther apart so that they cross at approximately -6dB (versus the usual -3dB). Includes fully illustrated manual.
Requirements-IBM compatible Pentium+; Windows 95/98/Windows/NT 4+; 16Mb RAM; 17Mb hard disk space; mouse and printer; VGA-640x480 pixels, 256 colors.

1998-2005, CD with printed manual Preţ: 114.28 €

TLwrx v 3.0 Transmission Line Software
G.L. Augspurger, Perception, Inc.

Finally, a software modeling program which accurately predicts the behavior of transmission speakers at the design stage. Including basic performance relationships similar to the Thiele/Small analysis of vented boxes, TLwrx Version 3.0 provides designers with valuable information about expected system response prior to construction. The software is based on extensive research by G. L. Augspurger, longtime technical manager for JBL's professional division and designer of over 100 custom installations in recording studios worldwide. Information gained from this work is the basis behind Joe D'Appolito's well-known design for the Thor speakers. Along with the TLwrx Version 3.0 software, extensive notes, an alignment chart, and Augspurger's three articles describing his research which appeared in Speaker Builder magazine are included on the CD.

2004, CD-ROM Preţ: 148.90 €