wklie
September 8, 2020, 1:29pm
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I think there are several guides here. I’m not suggesting one or the other way is better, and I’ve not gone through any of these. I was just wondering what are the factors driving one to choose a hardware based room correction or software based approach, the latter of which might allow more choices of amplifiers but need a lot more effort.
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…
I am getting some complaints that this tutorial is too long so I am adding a 10-step quick guide for those of you who want to use Roon convolution filters for Dirac level speaker & room correction in both frequency and the time domain:
With FDW ticked in preferences in REW, take two measurements at LP and four more measurements 25-30 cm away from LP at front, left, right and behind LP for each speaker (a total of 12 measurements). Time align and vector average for each speaker in All SPL in …
I have tried to do room correction with REW and other tools, but the results were unsatisfactory. Several discussions with @Brian , @rovinggecko and others. Several people, here and offline, have been telling me that Acourate is by far the best tool to measure and generate the convolution, but also that it is difficult to learn and use. I finally decided to take this seriously, and both statements are correct. (@Uli_Brueggeman , the author of Acourate, was helpful.)
The final result is excellent.…