Help setting up DSP

[ged_hickman1]

Welcome, there’s lots of information about all of those topics on the forum, search in the forum or use Google search to see opinions, there are many!

The chord DACs all do internal upsampling so I personally wouldn’t upsample. The Aries is roon ready so the settings should be fine to start with.

That leaves room DSP and that is a big topic. Search for room DSP and read some of the threads, this being the main one

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…