Jeff Flowerday;690670 Wrote: > I'm intrigued but also skeptical about something messing with the audio > before. It looks like audiolense is the proper way to do it, but it > isn't cheap. > > There isn't much else I can do with my room, so the last option would > be DRC, but I need to hear some rave reviews. :) There is already plenty of > material available on the benefits of room correction.
If you want to hear rave reviews I would stick to foo: you will always find plenty of rave reviews for that. I found that audiolense made a very distinct improvement on my system. For my own part i got quite a bit of benefit just using the inguz equaliser and an SPL meter from maplins. But using a measring mic and audiolense was better. But it's obvious that the benefits of any implementation depend on 1) what problems you have to start with 2) how well you use the room correction. I am suspicious of anyone who simply says "I've tried it and it doesn't work". You have to analyse out the problems and decide which ones are worth correcting and which aren't: I have a null at between 30-40hz in my room- not amount of boosting will help it. If you tell the software to try it will probably mess everything up. But there are peaks and smaller dips in response which can be addressed. If you try one approach and don;t like the sound, you have to rethink the strategy- maybe you are being too ambitious. AFAIK most users do not aim for a target curve with an entirely flat frequency response but just aim to get it nearer There is a cognitive dissonance for audiophiles because it involves systematically altering the sound; audiophiles gernally seem to prefer the illusion that they are purely reproducing something even when they are (unsystematically) tinkering with frequency and/or phase eg with cables, valves, Nos dacs. IMHO anyone who says it doesn't work simpliciter either a) has a perfect room b) doesn't know how to work the software or c) is wrong I have only tried frequency domain correction and have not moved onto time domain because that is a lot more complex and there are more tradeoffs. But I will probably give that a go in the future. -- adamdea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93393 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
