Hello Loki, On Fri, December 5, 2008 00:17, Loki Davison wrote: > Is the improvement worth the effort? :)
for the other question see the answers to Julien. Regarding this last one, well, the effort may be quite huge, or a breeze, depending on your skill in DSP, computer science, Linux and so on. Considering the average partecipant to this list I expect this to be biased towards the second option. :) For sure it's cheap: DRC is free, a decent mic is just few bucks, if you already have a PC and a decent soundcard you're ready to go. The improvements depends on your starting point. With an high quality audio system placed in a heaviliy damped and properly treated room the difference migh be no more than a refinement. Nevertheless it might be worth the effort even in an excellent room. For example this is my current, heavily damped, dedicated listening room: http://itchef.infotecna.it/ListeningRoom/Foto/ This is, for example, the RT60 of the room: http://itchef.infotecna.it/ListeningRoom/RT60-25ms-30dB.png which is close to optimal. For a while I dreamed about getting rid of the active correction, which is after all another issue to deal with. I did everything conceivable to get the best results without DRC. After a while I gave up, DRC is still there, and I changed my approach. Instead of trying to get the best without DRC I configured everything to get the best with DRC in place. Here you can find the (almost) final results: http://itchef.infotecna.it/ListeningRoom/Misure/ Since those measurements there have been further refinements to the DRC configurations, but the differences are minimal, the basic results are all there. Bye, -- Denis Sbragion InfoTecna Tel: +39 0362 805396, Fax: +39 0362 805404 URL: http://www.infotecna.it _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
