Yeah, but should the lefthand windowing even matter in this case? Because you are running a minimum phase filter, all lefthand coefficients/taps are at zero. They certainly are not affecting the frequency domain. If you were running a linear phase filter, the lefthand windowing would matter, since it would contain the the righthand coefficients/taps in reverse order.
AJ
Thatâs it, AJ 
And I zoomed in on your screenshots. Righthand windowing is the same 1.730 ms in both, hence why your frequency domain resolution is the same for both filter durations.
AJ
Yes, and shortening the left window shortens the latency of the filter to audibly remedy echo effects when grouped with other zonesâŚ
Your DIY speakers are a special case where you donât need any crossover phase correction hence the flat impulse response before time 0. Itâs especially the low frequency phase shifts that generate the ringing and are very dependent on the window size.
Hi all, hoping to get a bit of guidance since this is my first time doing any measurement + DSP processing.
I followed the steps provided in the guide. Something of note is that REW complained my sample volume was low, but I set my amp at my typical listening level.
I ended up having to apply -8dB of headroom management with this technique. Has anyone else had to apply so much headroom? Many tracks clipped, from instrumental music to pop/electronic music.
This is my RMS against the Harman target:
Hereâs what I ended up with after following the steps. Wondering how it looks to those who may have done this before? Note that I have my bass rolled off a few dB on my amp at 200Hz because I have a subwoofer that I disconnected for this. The sub has to be controlled manually at all times anyway because my amp only has full volume tape-level out.
I usually need -5, -6 dB headroom to completely get rid of clipping for my entire collection according to Roon but I didnât use any for years. -8 dB headroom wouldnât be a problem. My personal belief is that you wouldnât run into any serios problems with convolution even with headroom off. For the bass rolloff issue, you will need to measure and correct with the sub on as the convolution engine will correct for these frequencies with or without the sub. Just play REW sweeps from your usual system.
As promised:
This one is about subwoofer alignment but more importantly shows how to time align multiple point measurements using the cross correlation feature in REW.
Measuring at multiple points and averaging with this method rather than a single mic position measurement is giving slightly better results. I also started using VAR smoothing before inversion. However I am still struggling to invert excess phase without getting pre-echo effects. When/if I can do that, it will be worth a new Roon convolution with REW video 
Thank you. Cannot wait to finish work hours to watch
Thanks @OCA, I took the time to remeasure the system. I took a two part approach and will share for those that come across this and have a similar setup.
Setup:
Measurement modifications:
Cleanup and adjusting to taste:
This lead to a much better response than trying to measure without using the subwoofer.
You basically managed to create different bass curves for different volumes which of course is ideal.
Why are you crossing over your speakers at 200Hz? Because theyâre very small or because of the peaks in their response? I wouldnât normally go over 80Hz.
Thatâs a fair question, since itâs not really whatâs recommended.
For a typical listening I listen at fairly low levels (65-70 db(A)), so the subwoofer crossing over at 200Hz provides a very subtle and nice foundation to the loudspeakers, much like a âloudnessâ feature. My amp is rated for 35W/ch, so I chose to trade bass response in the loudspeaker for more usable volume range overall.
At higher volumes, I was crossing over at 130Hz or 80Hz, depending on how loud I turned everything up. Turning the sub volume up with a 200Hz crossover didnât sound very good, so it was primarily used that way for quiet listening.
I see. I guess with only one sub and relatively at a central position, you wouldnât mind localization of bass frequencies as well.
I wonder if you and John Mulcahy can come up with some kind of procedure or âfilterâ to deal with these phase issues like RePhase seems to be able to do⌠I have been looking at SoX to see if it can deal with the phase issues as a post processing pipe from the FIR.wav output from REWâŚ
BTY I can not understand why anyone would crossover full range speakers with a sub(s) above 80Hz in a stereo system⌠Its not like you can save those excess Hz(s) in a mayonnaise jar to use latter onâŚ
Excellent video, thanks.
As a point of interest, have you re-measured the response of the resulting dual subwoofer configuration? How closely does it match the predicted results?
Thank you. Of course I did. Itâs almost an exact copy, maximum 0.5 db difference at no more than 2-3 points.
Amazing, thanks!
hi,
excellent tutorial. however, my end results are not close to what I see everyone is getting. Please take a look at the photos. there is almost no correction in the bass area for either speaker below 100 Hz. any advice? what could I be doing wrong?
best regards,
Walter
Itâs hard to understand from these plots but I see some âA plus Bâ at the bottom, they need to be âA X Bâ
Hi @Serkan_Gur
thanks!!! you are completely right. i run it again and I got the following results. Really nice.
Any advice as to how to time-align and match SPL in Roon DSP engine?
I was able to time-align and offset SPL to match in Rew according to your instruction. Below are the values I received/had to use.
right speaker: Delay -2.9166 ms (-1.000 m, -(3 ft 3.4 in))
using estimated IR delay relative to Acoustic reference played from HEADPHONE R with no timing offset
Clock adjustment: 0.1 ppm
left speaker: Delay -3.3713 ms (-1.156 m, -(3 ft 9.5 in))
using estimated IR delay relative to Acoustic reference played from HEADPHONE R with no timing offset
Right speaker SPL offset -5.0
Left channel SPL offset -6.3
it reads âheadphoneâ because I used the headphone output of my MacBook to connect to my preamplifier RCA inputs and run measurement.
Again thanks a lot for your support to our community.
Walter
