Efficiency of DSP equalization functionality

[DuckSoup (Mike)]

Hi David,

I don’t think that there’s any way of putting the Dirac correction into Roon. Dirac doesn’t have the facility to export a convolution file.

You could, however, use REW software to generate a correction file that could then be used in Roon. There’s a guide to doing this here:

A guide how to do room correction and use it in Roon

I have experimented with REW (Room EQ Wizard) and room correction, and how to apply it in Roon, and decided to write a guide about it. This is what produced best result for me (I sit in a small room with concrete walls), but the way I did it should work well in bigger rooms and for different walls as well. This guide assumes you have a 2.0 or 2.1 system, and works best if you have a specific listening position and you sit in the middle of the sound, with an equal distance to left and right speak…

As far as I know Dirac does more than REW because it tries to correct both amplitude and phase. REW only does amplitude correction. It is possible to do phase correction using rePhase software - I am currently experimenting with this.

I did try Dirac (on a limited trial basis) and felt that I could get just as good a result using REW and rePhase.

You could try using REW and then compare Roon / REW Filter with what your Dirac / miniDSP does do decide whether it’s worth changing.