htrd;329672 Wrote: > How much tweaking did it take you to be satisfied with your room EQ > filters? > Do you mean EQ or DRC? If you mean EQ, as I said I use this only in the bass, preferring to leave the higher frequencies completely untouched.
I would prefer to use DRC for the bass but several factors are holding me back: - it seems to me too complex with too many subjective choices in the process - impulse recording seems to be more sensitive to data 'noise' due to microphone positioning and other minor factors. I've lost count of how many FR plots based on impulses have spiky, 'toothcomb-like' FR responses. Compare this to the use of warble tones when doing plain FR measurements. I find warble tones tend to give very consistent response graphs with smooth shapes. And what I've read indicates that the characteristics of warble tones correspond nicely to human hearing in terms of the way we perceive loudnesses of closely-spaced frequencies. - I have yet to read of a way of performing DRC whilst guaranteeing only the lower frequencies will be affected. If you meant EQ... I did play around by making measurements, making the corrections, re-measuring and then tweaking the corrections further in order to aim for a flat final measurement. However, I've come to understand it's best to measure once and apply the corrections once, by-the-book so to speak. The peaks and troughs cannot be cancelled out completely no matter how much correction is applied (because they're due to room modes) and it's best to not push the response where it doesn't want to go. Also I have tried EQ on full-spectrum and after long-term listening decided against it. DRC is a different beast of course, but my thoughts above still apply. Darren -- darrenyeats SB3 / Inguz -> Krell KAV-300i (pre bypass) -> PMC AB-1 Dell laptop -> JVC UX-C30 mini system ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51046 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
