While I have heard better low level intelligibility from a few center channel speakers I've reviewed over the years, few have matched or beat the Center DOMUS's combination of intelligibility, believability and freedom from mechanical artifacts at normal to relatively loud listening levels (one such center channel is the far more expensive, more massive and more capable Aerial CC5). Go for intelligibility by lifting the presence region and you often get discontinuity in male voices, shrillness in female voices, and "mechanicalness" in both, particularly on sibilants, which take on a distinct, easily identifiable life of their own, thus destroying any hope of believability. There's too much chest and not enough throat. Make the speaker too warm, and male voices sound boxy, muffled and difficult to understand. Voicing a speaker to reproduce the human voice is a daunting task. In either location, the Center DOMUS produced the some of the most believable dialog I have heard yet from a home theater system. Later I put the Center DOMUS atop my reference Hitachi CRT-based RPTV. I began the review with it mounted on a sleek, dedicated stand ($395) placed in front of a display then under review that did not accommodate a center channel speaker.
Once our natural light source is set, all we have to do is launch our rendering and wait for our computer to process the image, creating the final result that we imagined at the start of our project.If the weak point in Sonus's Concert line was the two-way center channel speaker, the Center DOMUS may be the new line's major achievement.
This process is a little bit more complex, so if you aren’t yet familiar with these features in DomuS3D, you can use an HDR background to set the natural light and luminosity, and then substitute the background image using photo-editing software such as photoshop. If you can’t find what you need in the available HDR backgrounds, you can use a JPEG image as your background and manually set the natural light such that it aligns with the image. The only thing we need to do is rotate our image in order to position the area that we want to see in our rendering image. HDR backgrounds are already set to have the correct settings for natural light, which makes using them in our project extremely simple. We can use an HDR background available in the DomuS3D library. We don’t need to create an interior design that is especially detailed in this case the most important thing is to build the 3D structure aside the pool and insert a few items that will be visible from the viewpoint that we choose for our final renderings, the viewpoint that we believe will show-off best the pool area that we are designing and building.Īll that’s left now is to set our background and natural light. We can create the rooms adjacent to our pool to better represent our entire space, displaying the pool in the spatial context where it will be built in real life.
To imagine all this as best we can, why not use DomuS3D to create an outdoor project and generate a beautiful rendering image? In this article, we’ll take a look how to create a custom swimming pool in DomuS3D and generate a photorealistic final rendering.įirst things first, we’ll need to create a new project in DomuS3D and draw our floorplan (if you’re not sure how to start – make sure to sign up for our beginner training courses here). Even though the summer is over and it may seem out of season, there is no better time to get started planning a project for next summer, which will be here before we know it! This can help us get through the cold weather that is still to come, as we dream of how nice it will be to soak up the sun aside our swimming pool, lay back in our lounge chair, read a book and enjoy a nice cold drink.