Recent content by Keith_W

Acourate can be made to use any curve as the basis of correction, including MMM, multi-point averaged, etc. although the simplest way is to use a single measurement. Uli has explained how to do it before, and the guide I wrote simply replicates Uli's description. The trick is to use one...

If you said "if you are limited by computing power" then I would agree with you. But is that still true if you have a FIR filter with a few hundred thousand taps?

Maybe you should write down a list of requirements for your listening chair. For me I have a few requirements: - I want to sit bolt upright when listening. I don't want my head at an angle because that interferes with stereo imaging. - I don't want anything behind my head, so no headrest...

This is a pretty easy question to answer, no need for @OCA for this one ;) Consider the three target curves that I quickly drew for you. On the left is the typical falling response, in the middle is a flat response, on the right is an upward tilt. All the target curves need to be normalised to...

I don't see why not. I am not a huge fan of Dirac though, and I personally don't know anybody who is running Dirac on a PC. Most people I know who use PC's use Audiolense or Acourate.

Can't play my SACD's (Snake-oil Audio Content with DRM) then!

I would have thought it would be pretty simple. Inefficient speakers need more amplifier power to produce the same SPL. If you pump all that wattage into a driver, a lot of that gets converted to heat. And too much heat build-up leads to nonlinearities like dynamic compression and distortion.

Are you sure it's Qobuz and not Dirac? Try listening to Qobuz by itself, and try playing something else (e.g. local file) through Dirac. I would wager that Dirac is the more likely culprit.

Yeah, notice how MiniDSP's website does not tell you anything about the DSP :facepalm: If you want to find out the nitty gritty, you have to turn to the manual. Answer: 10 biquads per channel available for programming (1 biquad = 1 PEQ), 4 channels total. Zero FIR taps. This thing would be able...

Of course they would be jingoistic about their own products. Just like Australian car magazines back when Australia still made cars. Nothing could beat our "home grown" Holdens or Fords.

Both versions of Dirac use mixed-phase DSP, but the MiniDSP Flex is CPU limited so it has a total of 4096 taps shared among all channels. The PC version has 20k taps per channel, not sure about the Mac. Re: 48kHz vs. 96kHz. Yes there is a difference, but the reason is not what you may think...

At work: Me: "So what do you do for a living?" Him: "I am a barrister" Me: "Oh wow! Which university did you go to?" Him: (confused) "I didn't go to university?" Me: (confused) "How did you join the bar then?" Him: "I applied and they gave me a job? And I don't work in a bar, I work in a...

Of the interfaces on your list I would choose the RME, because the company behind it is reputable and stands by their product. Also there are dozens of RME users on ASR, and we rarely have problems. A cheaper alternative is the Motu M4. I believe it goes down to 1Hz or even DC, but Amir's...

We know how to deal with our wildlife though :)

I would rather have kangaroos than what you Americans have.