That would be a better idea, assuming different installations of the software on various HW platforms result in the same functionality (same number of PEQs, etc.).
P.S. .. as long as the provided mic is calibrated.
Exactly!
A double blind study comparing the RoomEq software's similar to the one Sean Olive conducted 10 years ago (but with more participants)
would also help, it could be used as a reference point.
Is the resultant output into free space of paramount importance, or is the signal path and fidelity of the DUT? You call for measurements of the former as the only reliable method of analysis (in which case it matters little whether a passive or active network is used - nor which transducers/boxes it affects). If it's the former, then the devices/software used are all equally valid, as the result is the only metric of consequence.
Let me summarise and rephrase, so we don't get lost here:
Its a pre-requirement and very important in sound reproduction to use multiple subs, RoomEq for the bass (below the Schroeder) and a down sloping target curve (+of course well-designed speakers). This is (should be) common knowledge.
If a dac/processor can't offer those, for me (and that is not subjective
) it's useless, apart from headphone use.
It doesn't have a head to start with, nor arms and legs
.
These parameters affect perceived sound in a huge way, much more than a SINAD of 115db compared to a 90db.
I never said that these are the "only reliable method of analysis", but that they are very important.
I just want all available information and measurements, including of course the ones that
@amirm performs, to make a judgement of how a device sounds, not how well it is engineered.
Out of those, I will take into account what's audible and what's not, what affects the SQ more and what doesn't, and what's broken, buggy or unusable.
Regardless, the thread is about the RMC-1 which would require exactly the same gymnastics to have any room eq... at least until they get Dirac actually implemented in it.
The RMC-1 at the moment is unusable
. I knew that before Amir's review, that's why I didn't buy it- I had high hopes for it.
Amir's measurements confirmed that.
This became obvious to everyone after the first pages of this thread, so nothing else to discuss on the specific prepro.
Lets go off topic