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Share your in-room measurements?

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Would it be useful to have a forum thread where we can gather people's in-room frequency response measurements and discuss them? Those who did something to improve their sound based on measurements might also describe what they did and show the results. I think this could be quite interesting. What do you think?
 

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Ok, let's start. Uncorrected, measured at LP, 4 meters from speakers, MMM RTA with pink noise, 1/6 smoothing:

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Same, but corrected actual response:

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Just because it is what I have handy to display. Here is the uncorrected result for LSR305's when I was using them for front speakers in my video system. Never corrected them as it was a temporary arrangement. Red is at the LP, and green is a 6 position average for a square meter around the LP. 1/6th smoothing.

Maybe we should discuss which type of smoothing to use. I think 1/6th is generally good to more or less equal what our ears hear and showing a useful amount of detail. Though perhaps psychoacoustic in REW is even better. I wonder about the psychoacoustic smoothing in REW below 200 hz however.

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Just because it is what I have handy to display. Here is the uncorrected result for LSR305's when I was using them for front speakers in my video system. Never corrected them as it was a temporary arrangement. Red is at the LP, and green is a 9 position average for a square meter around the LP.

Did I have a glass of wine too much or something is missing here? :D
 

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Here is the average with psychoacoustic in orange and 1/6th smoothing in green.

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Here is the same comparison with only the LP measurement. Looks like spatial averaging gets you very close to psychoacoustic smoothing. While single point measurements are more different between 1/6th and psychacoustic smoothing. Psychoacoustic is blue, and 1/6 th is red.

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Just because it is what I have handy to display. Here is the uncorrected result for LSR305's when I was using them for front speakers in my video system. Never corrected them as it was a temporary arrangement. Red is at the LP, and green is a 9 position average for a square meter around the LP. 1/6th smoothing.

Maybe we should discuss which type of smoothing to use. I think 1/6th is generally good to more or less equal what our ears hear and showing a useful amount of detail. Though perhaps psychoacoustic in REW is even better. I wonder about the psychoacoustic smoothing in REW below 200 hz however.

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This is very impressive for uncorrected response - you must have a really "calm" room. :)
 

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This is very impressive for uncorrected response - you must have a really "calm" room. :)

The room is a little too reflective, but is large. It is 19.5 ft wide (5.9 m) , 33.3 ft long (10.1) and 10 ft. (3 m) ceiling.
 

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The room is a little too reflective, but is large. It is 19.5 ft wide (5.9 m) , 33.3 ft long (10.1) and 10 ft. (3 m) ceiling.

Too reflective?!? You should see mine - it is 5m * 8.5m, but much more "lively" than yours. Still sounds good though. :)
 

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This might be worth showing. Orange is the 6 measurement average around the LP, and cyan is the single point sweep at the LP. Both are un-smoothed. You can see just how much smoothing of the numerous reflections gets filtered out by doing measurements in several locations. I've not done much MMM yet, I would think they'd smooth it out even more.
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And here is the spatial average measurement without smoothing in orange and with pscyhoacoustic smoothing in blue.
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Still seems incredible magic we can do such analysis with free software, a $100 microphone and a computer.

EDIT: to fix having the wrong screenshots shown. Correct shots are there now.
 
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My speakers are desk mounted and sandwiched between two bookcases. I should probably stick to headphone listening really. Oddly enough to my ears the system sounds a little bright. Measurements don't support that though. This hobby will drive you mad if you let it.
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Haven't managed to find a correction I can live with yet. I don't know whether I just got used to the sound as is or what I hear isn't what the Mic hears.
 

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Vandersteen Quatros (original cloth version) with the subwoofer level and all 11 EQ pots set to the zero position, 1/6 octave smoothing:

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Then with REW rePhase EQ applied up to 200 Hz. (Not shown: I cranked up the subwoofer level to make the dip between 100 and 200 Hz easier to fill in.)

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Vandersteen Quatros (original cloth version) with the subwoofer level and all 11 EQ pots set to the zero position, 1/6 octave smoothing:

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Then with REW rePhase EQ applied up to 200 Hz. (Not shown: I cranked up the subwoofer level to make the dip between 100 and 200 Hz easier to fill in.)

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Impressive. I'd be interested to know how well this kind of correction works over a range of listening positions.
 
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I don't know no but a thread where everyone shares their in room measurements will be good and this can be it.
Oh boy. Buying a mic and learning to use REW and making good repeatable measurements and understanding the data and doing something about it... this is not going to be a distraction from my guitar practice, is it?
 
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