Thank you Inguz, good work there. If it works, it is surely better than
buying a TACT. I have some different problems though - have you (or
anyone) got a clue?


SoftSqueeze

When I use the setup with SoftSqueeze (2.8) I get something like pink
noise and can only very faintly hear the original sound in the
background.

I had to dig out my retired Squeezebox 3 and then I got the sound (but
not sounding very nice - see below).

Could there be a setting somewhere within SoftSqueeze, do I need to get
a later SoftSqueeze, SqueezeSlave or whatever - or will it simply not
work with anything but a hardware Squeezebox?


"Tunnel-sound"

After installing the plugin with the newly created filters the sound
could best be described as "closed in" or "coming out of a tunnel". A
bit boomy bass, lost a lot of the high frequencies etc.

I tried different filters; Normal, Soft, NoCorrection etc with no major
difference to the tunnel-sound. Only "None" took it back to normal
sound.

The measurement was done with a Behringer ECM8000 and it went
reasonably smooth, no obvious problems. I had to turn down the preamp
line level a bit to prevent clipping, so the "live" channel would no
longer be on -6dB while I left the reference channel at -6dB
(instructions didn't mention whether to change that as well or not). I
noticed that the recorded wavefile looked very modulated and far from
flat like the reference - I have no clue if this is normal. I tried
saving recorded wave-files with and without the "clicks" at start and
end (again: instruction not clear on this point).

I tried bk-3-spline.txt as well as flat.txt for the target response,
but no difference to the tunnel-sound. I do have a subwoofer (an old
REL, of the type connected to the power amp output) so maybe I should
have chosen something else here?

I tried looking in the DRC manual.....and gave up.

What could I have missed?


Equipment

I normally don't use a Squeezebox. I have a professional sound card and
I use SoftSqueeze for playing. The reason for this is to get master
clock control and balanced outputs, none of which SB3 can handle (yes I
know the new Transporter can do this, but I don't need the DAC there so
it seems silly to pay for that).

The souncard feeds an upsampler (dCS Purcell) which in turn feeds an
external DAC (dCS Delius).

I had to plug in my SqueezeBox to get past the "pink noise" problem and
then I took the digital out from that and fed into the upsampler so I
did not use the analog out from SB3 at all.


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