I just bought a copy of CARA speaker positioning software and spent about 12 hours modelling my living room and running basic calculations for optimum speaker positioning.
Best $50.00 I've spent on my system in a long while. While dropping a CD23 into the rig was an improvement (Plinius 8200 w/ ProAc Response 1.5), the results from the CARA software are really rather impressive. I'd come close to CARA's placement results a couple of times, but never nailed it quite the way the CARA software did (which I'm flattered by...tells me my ears aren't lying as much as I'd thought).
When I can leave the computer on for a while, I'm going to dial up the complexity and let the thing run (I was up to around 15 minutes per iteration the other night before I figured that I'd gone too far).
They always say that the most expensive and difficult part of any system is the room. The CARA software helps you wrestle the room.
Best $50.00 I've spent on my system in a long while. While dropping a CD23 into the rig was an improvement (Plinius 8200 w/ ProAc Response 1.5), the results from the CARA software are really rather impressive. I'd come close to CARA's placement results a couple of times, but never nailed it quite the way the CARA software did (which I'm flattered by...tells me my ears aren't lying as much as I'd thought).
When I can leave the computer on for a while, I'm going to dial up the complexity and let the thing run (I was up to around 15 minutes per iteration the other night before I figured that I'd gone too far).
They always say that the most expensive and difficult part of any system is the room. The CARA software helps you wrestle the room.