To Tacima or not to Tacima - that, is the question

[aliEnRIK]

garry79:

I got one of these a few days ago for my TV setup and Its a bit of a mixed bag for me at the mo.

The pros are sharpened image (overall more detail and colour cohesion and variation) and sound is improved even on built in speakers. On the downside there's been no improvement on bringing out dark areas, the colour difference between cable channels has increase (such as when you watch Friends on E4 everyone looks even more like a tomotoe now) and, rather annoyingly, the sound and audio are slightly out of sync (audio before picture).

Has anyone else experienced any of these issues?

Your supposed to calibrate the tv. Not just plug in and not like what you see

As for the audio sync, does your amp not have a sync option?

 

[Anonymous]

I have recalibrated the TV but the color difference between channels has widened and I don't use an amp, just the TV speakers.

 

[aliEnRIK]

The correct setting for colour is so that everything looks natural (assuming greyscale and luminance are already calibrated, generally theyre not)

If the colours too high on certain channels, turn it down (perhaps you also have some extra tv processing going on that shouldnt be?)

 

[steve_1979]

I have a £25 Tacma mains filter and these are the results with my equiptment:

Old CRT telly and DVD player -- No difference

Freeview box -- Slightly better signal

Cheap Yamaha RX-V365 receiver -- No difference

Expensive Yamaha RX-V667 receiver -- Clearer sound with better seperation and tighter bass

Q Acoustics 1000Si 100watt amplified subwoofer -- Slightly tighter sounding bass