Digital room correction


When will there be a simple, affordable 1 box solution where digital room correction can be dropped into any 2 channel system? A number of years ago, I owned a McIntosh MEN220 which was a really cool solution, it worked reasonably well and for the time it was introduced, it checked most of the boxes off. The digital technology inside that piece of gear was state of the art 10 years ago (24/96) but when is there going to be an update or an alternative solution?

I don’t really keep up with this stuff so please forgive me if there has been something introduced. I see a good part of this type of technology now in most decent subwoofers. It would be really cool if you could drop something into a tape loop on a preamp if it exists. Thanks in advance.
ghasley

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The most popular 2-channel gear seem to be the new preamps with a DAC | preamp | Room Correction all built into 1 unit.

The companies with these popular units do not seem to have a room correction only unit. Lyndgrof used to have one but I no longer see it on the web site.

Some Room Correction gear (preamps) I have looked at include:  Anthem STR, DEXQ, Linn SELEKT DSM, and Lyngdrof 3400 (integrated). 

I was also looking for a unit that was separate from a preamp or integrated but have not come across one that seems popular.
BTW - I should have added that the MAC Men220 is a implementation of Lyngdorfs RoomPerfect. This feature seems to be not being available anymore from Lyngdorf as a single room correction only unit. MAC still sells the MEN220.

Here is a good review of the Linn SELEKT DSM that I think explains really well the capabilities of the SPACE OPTIMPIZATION feature available on the Linn.

https://www.soundstageaustralia.com/index.php/reviews/282-linn-selekt-dsm-katalyst-network-music-player

I learned something new today from this thread, the SELEKT DSM has the following:

  • Analogue outputs for connection to pre- or power amps

https://www.linn.co.uk/sources/network-music-players/selekt#selekt-dsm