What house curve you use, to apply to a flat calibrated/corrected sound, has naturally a big impact. I like a little extra warmth, which certainly influence my own house curve (which is applied on a flat room correction done in REW). It gives a sound similar to the new headphones I bough: B&W P7 Wireless, which I like a lot.
Here is my house curve for my active speakers, lets see yours
Iâd share my house curve, but mine is basically yours Iâd love to see some others as well. I followed your guide to get my House Curve and to my ears it sounds fantastic
Thought I would go in a slightly different direction and share my current curve for my Elear HP setup (Schiit Jot, Schiit Saga, iFi micro, Roon upstream). The Elearâs are a great HP, but not out of the box as they positively require DSP for passable FR in my opinion.
Very nice @crenca. I wonder when Focal will work with Roon to get some Presets like what Audeze is now doing. First to market is a powerful thing that Audeze has done.
The one you have there looks good, but I think its better to use it in REW and correct to it, and not use PEQ in Roon (the less DSP you have the better).
In REW you can use a textfile and select it from settings, this is the one I currently use which is a little âfunâ and not strictly neutral (but feel free to experiment, house curve is very subjective):
20 9
25 9
31.5 9
40 8.5
50 8
63 7
80 5.325
100 4.3
125 3.5
160 2.8
200 2.4
250 2.025
315 1.75
400 1.675
500 1.675
1000 1.35
10000 -1.25
12500 -1.5
16000 -1.875
20000 -4.785
Could you comment on your house curve? Just started with the Olive/Tool curve and have to admit, it sounds really great! Would appreciate your comments! Thx and a really great day!
Thx so much for sharing your house curve. I am Not able to share mine due to the fact that I have never used ones. However, I am happy to share those two posts, which discuss the opportunities to use them. I was really happy to get those informations. Although listening music for decades, I was not aware about those items. And I did not know that it can be modified by the roon application/filters.
For those that wonders why we need a house curve: its not just a listening preference, but physics/biology. Our ears hear low frequencies at a lower level than high frequencies which means we have to boost lower frequencies and lower higher frequencies in order to get a curve that to us sounds flat (but to a microphone has a tilt).
I seem to recall +5dB at 20Hz to -5dB at 20khz as a good neutral tilt, but then you can add your own flavor to that of course, like a little extra at 50-100Hz
Youâd have to use Roonâs parametric eq filter in DSP and create the filter bands yourself but itâs pretty straightforward. I did this for my Meze Emypreanâs and it was a nice improvement. Of course the measurements taken from the headphones used to create the EQ might be slightly different from your own headphones âŠ
For those more adventurous, you can buy one of these:
With this you can measure the response of your headphones exactly and use REW to create a matched EQ that you can also enter in Roonâs parametric EQ filter in DSP. I also did this and it was another solid step up in sound quality over the aboveâŠ