Acclimating ears to room corrected audio

[Telefunk]

After running YPAO calibration in my living room, the room corrected playback sounds muffled and lifeless compared to the Pure Direct mode. Has anyone found that their ears gradually acclimated to apparently bad sounding room calibration? How long did it take to adjust?

I have a Yamaha R-N1000a in my living room with NHT Superone fronts and an ELAC 3030 sub.

 

[staticV3]

Did you double-check the result of YPAO calibration using HouseCurve for example?

No point in trying to acclimate if the correction is just poor.

 

[kelesh]

After running YPAO calibration in my living room, the room corrected playback sounds muffled and lifeless compared to the Pure Direct mode. Has anyone found that their ears gradually acclimated to apparently bad sounding room calibration?

There's definitely a period of getting used to any changes. Specifics may vary. The first time I sat in an automobile driver's seat and played music, it all sounded completely wrong and off-balance, because I was closer to the left speakers than the right. Over the years, I've grown used to it, and now I'm guessing that the brain compensates, no need to adjust balance. Same with frequency/corrected playback.

 

[Telefunk]

Did you double-check the result of YPAO calibration using HouseCurve for example?

No point in trying to acclimate if the correction is just poor.

I don't have a iPhone so no. I have calibrated YPAO several times and the results are consistent. Unfortunately these two channel YPAO amps don't seem to have the HTTP access to view or adjust the curves. Basically it's EQ on or off in the Music cast app.

 

[Jim Taylor]

If I remember correctly, NHT speakers had two characteristics that would change with YPAO. One was an erratic frequency response (here, here and here) and the other was a significant treble lift, which shows up in the last link.

The brain is sensitive to changes. If you had grown accustomed to peaks and valleys in the speaker response, plus a treble lift, the new response after YPAO might be, by comparison, a startling difference to the brain.

What happens if you compare three things: 1) the YPAO response, 2) the Pure Direct response, and 3) headphone response? Which response is closer to the headphone response?

Jim

 

[TurtlePaul]

Quite a few people don’t like YPAO, especially relative to better models like DIRAC. Watch the recent Erin’s Audio Corner video where he reviewed a $3k Yamaha amp and said YPAO isn’t any good.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

NHT Superone fronts

Side note: I had those back in the day. And still do in modified form.

Modern designs that I now own leave them in the dust, imo.