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Smaart measurement platform

SIA / Rational Acoustics · 1995–1996

Evidence status · documented

Identity and core specifications are documented; some historical fields remain unavailable.

Smaart is a dual-channel FFT analysis program created by Sam Berkow and SIA Software and released through JBL in 1996 as JBL-SMAART. It measures frequency response, phase, coherence and impulse response, and can use programme material rather than test tones.

Introduced
1995–1996
Category
Acoustic measurement software
Intended use
Dual-channel FFT measurement for system tuning
Production
Created by Sam Berkow / SIA Software; developed by Rational Acoustics since 2008

Equipment photographs · 1

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Smaart logo·Rational Acoustics·© Rational Acoustics, used for identification and historical commentary

Why it mattered

  1. 01

    It made transfer-function measurement affordable on a laptop, changing how systems were tuned at load-in.

  2. 02

    Measuring with music allowed checks during actual shows.

Engineering record

Measurements
RTA, spectrograph, dual-channel transfer function, impulse response, RT and STI[1]
Names
JBL-SMAART (1996), SIA-SMAART Pro, EAW SMAART, SmaartLive, then Smaart under Rational Acoustics from 2008[2]

Original pricing

No reliable period price located

2026 equivalent

Not calculated without a reliable original price.

Public price evidence was not sufficient to publish a defensible original figure.

Use in the field

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Manuals & original documents

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Sources

  1. 1About SmaartRational Acoustics · reference
  2. 2About UsRational Acoustics · reference
  3. 3Sam I AmProSoundWeb · interview · 2016-03-11

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