Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room?
The most basic truth of audio for the last 30 years is listeners prefer a flat frequency response. You achieve that through getting the right speakers, in the right position, in the right room, and then use room treatments and DSP to dial it in. If you are posting questions about what gear to buy and have NOT measured your room and dialed it in to achieve a flat frequency response FIRST you are blowing cash not investing cash IMO. Have you measured the frequency response in your room yet and posted it?
I am overall pro-DSP, but my experience with Anthem’s Room Correction is that it’s OK. I felt I did better when I EQ’d the room myself. One mistake I made, and for me it was a big one, I assumed Anthem’s ARC would let me use 100% custom EQ curves and that’s absolutely not the case. On the other hand, for a system where you barely have to touch anything I can definitely see the appeal of ARC. I wish I had infinite funds and time to try Dirac as an alternative for instance. |
@erik_squires , wow +10, nice article. I hope the other people reading this thread benefit from your wisdom here. This proves a point I keep repeating: You have no idea what the lower cutoff of a speaker in a room actually is until you measure it. Because most audiophiles don’t do this critical step they usually get misled about what their next steps should be. The average audiophile needs to reset what they think they know about speaker specifications and what it means.
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