Creating REW room correction w/ Audyssey. Speaker by speaker or AVG?

[2Sunny]

Just to help folks understand the goal here I'll add that for medical reasons I'm tied to my house for the time being and this endeavor is about having fun and learning not about trying to create a perfect home theater sound. Currently I have a Sony STR AZ7000ES with 360 Spatial Sound Mapping turned on and the effect on the sound stage is quite dramatic so the goal is to see if manual room correction using REW can create equally good sound.

So . . .

I'm definitely putting the cart before the horse since I do not as of yet have the means to import REW EQ settings into my home theater, but I do fully intend to have such in the future. After watching the video below my first question came to mind:

If the goal is to get as close as possible to a Harman Room Curve using an REW EQ file exported into Audyssey, does one create a file for each individual speaker or does one take the average of all your REW readings and create an EQ file from that for the whole system or is my question way off because of a lack of understanding of how Audyssey and REW work?

 

[Oddball]

You would do it speaker by speaker. There is import function in the MultiEQ-X screen where you would point out to the file you need to import.

Two things to note though. Harman Room curve is not necessarily the universal truth - just a result of research where it seemed to be the preference of many. Also, people often ramp up the curve in the low end so that it extends as far and low as they can take it with their gear, or even beyond. Being realistic about extension is what makes it better. No shame with rolling of at 40 hz if that is what sounds best and matches the gear. If you want to understand the sub limits best is to run compression tests and see where is the limit.

There is nothing special about importing REW filters to Audyssey as opposed to tuning the system with native Audyssey filters. Audyssey will have its own limitations in terms of what it can and can not accommodate and it will not be dependent if the command came from REW or native Audy filters. It is IMO better to spend time with understanding how MultiEQ-X works and processes your requests that thinking that importing REW filters will yield superior results. It is actually quite a task to understand all this and if you are looking for a challenge, this might be the right one.