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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 2668495" data-attributes="member: 550915"><p>I knew it was some little shitbox.&nbsp; Fact remains that it was still an abomination //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif&nbsp; IMO RTA scoring measured nothing more than the patience of the tuner and had no real bearing on the actual sound of the car.&nbsp; If it did, they wouldn&#039;t have needed one EQT for RTA and the other pair for getting it to sound listenable.&nbsp; The first &quot;pefect 40&quot; RTA was significant, true but it was significant in that it was the first time that someone actually took advantage of the defeat function on the EQT to use multiple EQ curves and the 5 min that IASCA allowed for tuning between the various judging events.&nbsp; Previous to that the cars that sounded good were EQ&#039;d to sound good and they pretty much just lived with whatever RTA score that left them with.&nbsp; Since RTA was not even close to half of the scoring, they sacrificed the few points on the RTA to get better subjective scores for tonality and staging.&nbsp; The LeMans broke the mold in that it had the potential to max out both.&nbsp; I won&#039;t say that it wasn&#039;t significant in the history of car audio, but it was still a gimmick.&nbsp; A very rewarding gimmick but a gimmick nonetheless.&nbsp; The gimmick factor made a large portion of the point margin.&nbsp; The RTA score only accounted for 3-4 pts IIRC.&nbsp; Using the multi EQ setup, the 40 pt RTA score became almost a given from then on as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 2668495, member: 550915"] I knew it was some little shitbox. Fact remains that it was still an abomination [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] IMO RTA scoring measured nothing more than the patience of the tuner and had no real bearing on the actual sound of the car. If it did, they wouldn't have needed one EQT for RTA and the other pair for getting it to sound listenable. The first "pefect 40" RTA was significant, true but it was significant in that it was the first time that someone actually took advantage of the defeat function on the EQT to use multiple EQ curves and the 5 min that IASCA allowed for tuning between the various judging events. Previous to that the cars that sounded good were EQ'd to sound good and they pretty much just lived with whatever RTA score that left them with. Since RTA was not even close to half of the scoring, they sacrificed the few points on the RTA to get better subjective scores for tonality and staging. The LeMans broke the mold in that it had the potential to max out both. I won't say that it wasn't significant in the history of car audio, but it was still a gimmick. A very rewarding gimmick but a gimmick nonetheless. The gimmick factor made a large portion of the point margin. The RTA score only accounted for 3-4 pts IIRC. Using the multi EQ setup, the 40 pt RTA score became almost a given from then on as well. [/QUOTE]

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