DSP? Does it really do that much???

What actually happens to make it do what it does if it does much Beyond what tone controls do??

+1 @mapman 

DSP is incredibly beneficial to music reproduction when done right. Done wrong, it can destroy the experience entirely, and most users unfortunately don't learn its nuances well enough to do it right. Also, while DSP is a wonderfully powerful tuning tool, its computed adjustments are not necessarily the final word. Some manual final tweaking may be required.

Besides adjusting channel balance, frequency balance, speaker phase, and the virtual acoustic listening space, a DSP system with the Flux Capacitor circuit can transport you through time. 😉

So why do these dsp manufacturers make it so difficult to use their product. I have to test everything and then I have to load it to my AV processor. And if I don’t like it I gotta go back and adjust the curve and then reload it and see what happens.

It’s not the easiest to use even for people with computer knowledge.

Has anyone designed an interface that can allow you to adjust things on the fly without going through all the annoying processes to upload adjustments??

What actually happens to make it do what it does if it does much Beyond what tone controls do??

It’s all done in the digital signal processing domain so anything is possible from the equivalent of simple analog tone controls to sophisticated convolution filters.

Unfortunately the more powerful applications require some study to master though over time vendors are making things increasingly easy for lay users to leverage DSP effectively. An example would be a convolution filter for a specific headphone model that someone else created and all you have to do is download and apply the right file to make most any good quality headphone sound even better, based on data collected by experts on how how headphones work optimally to provide an improved listening experience.

DSP is definitely a topic worth reading up on and leaning about. IT can help make most any good quality equipment sound more like a reference standard or perhaps merely more the way you want it sound, in most any room, so it helps keep one off the costly and time consuming hifi equipment merry go round.  That's because  now you have pretty much total control over how things sound rather than be at the mercy of the gear chosen and the room it is playing in or headphones being listened to.

It’s just one very powerful feature of Roon for example that makes that product even more valuable to serious listeners.

@emergingsoul  DSP computations are complex and extensive. Still, the automated corrections are overall much simpler and quicker to perform than a manual approach, as well as more accurate (assuming you’ve done it right).

Sounds to me like you’re approaching it wrong by expecting DSP to produce an overall sonic experience that sounds best TO YOUR EAR on its own. But you are not alone. Almost everyone initially makes the same mistake of expecting DSP to automatically transform his/her system into "The Oracle of High Fidelity."

I suggest you just let the DSP circuitry do its thing, and then make whatever additional manual adjustments put the biggest smile on YOUR face downstream of those corrections.