Digital Room Correction For Speakers
The problem with this approach is the best it can do is flatten response at one location. But this comes at the cost of worse response at other locations. Not to mention all the problems inherent in equalization itself. By far the better approach is to take whatever money you're thinking of spending on EQ and treat the room and speakers with HFTs. |
When I couldn’t get decent bass from my revel salon2’s I knew my room was a stinker and the experts said the only solution was multiple subs to eliminate the nulls. What about ARC? I gave up on conventional speakers and bought a pair of DSP8000’s and it works so digital room correction should work for you |
If you have bass nulls in your listening position, no amount of room correction can make it any better. All room correction can do is tame any excess bass response from the room. If you have more than a 6~ dB null at any given frequency, and you try to lift that, you will only destroy your speakers and get little to no more bass. They’ll only be working harder. |
The Vandersteen 11-band EQ only effects frequencies below 100 Hz. Knocking down the big bass humps really improves midrange transparency, though. They just added a subwoofer to their line, the Sub 3, with the 11-band EQ, so you can add this to any speakers now. I’ve been using the free DRC-FIR software for digital room correction with excellent results. I use Room EQ Wizard and a Umik-1 USB mic for the room response measurements. DRC-FIR produces a filter file from the room measurements that can be used with a convolution engine in a digital music server like Roon or JRiver (I use the Logitech Media Server BrutefirDRC plugin). http://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/ https://www.roomeqwizard.com/ https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Convolution |
