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I just acquired a pair of Kali IN-8v2 and a miniDSP Flex TRS w/ Dirac. The physical setup is pretty good - small carpeted office with speakers on audio isolation foam pads toed in from the corners of a 60x34" desk centered on a wall.
I'm new to nearfield and am blown away by the out-of-the-boxes sound quality.
I wonder though if I'm missing out on what Dirac can do. It's my first time using it. I configured it for a "tightly focused" setup with nine measurements, designed a Harman-like target curve, and loaded it to the Flex. When I A/B Dirac Live OFF/ON, I hear no difference.
I noticed that the Flex preset with the Dirac filters has a 0.02 ms delay for Dirac 1 whether the Dirac Live button is ON or OFF, so I also A/B'd between presets. The several seconds of dead air while the preset switches make judgments difficult, but any possible difference there is subtle.
So I have a couple of questions:
1. Does Dirac Live generally offer much to nearfield 2.0 setups with close-to-optimal physical configuration? Maybe it's just not necessary?
2. When I load filters from the Dirac Live app to a Flex preset, does it change the sound of the preset even when Dirac Live is OFF?
I'm new to nearfield and am blown away by the out-of-the-boxes sound quality.
I wonder though if I'm missing out on what Dirac can do. It's my first time using it. I configured it for a "tightly focused" setup with nine measurements, designed a Harman-like target curve, and loaded it to the Flex. When I A/B Dirac Live OFF/ON, I hear no difference.
I noticed that the Flex preset with the Dirac filters has a 0.02 ms delay for Dirac 1 whether the Dirac Live button is ON or OFF, so I also A/B'd between presets. The several seconds of dead air while the preset switches make judgments difficult, but any possible difference there is subtle.
So I have a couple of questions:
1. Does Dirac Live generally offer much to nearfield 2.0 setups with close-to-optimal physical configuration? Maybe it's just not necessary?
2. When I load filters from the Dirac Live app to a Flex preset, does it change the sound of the preset even when Dirac Live is OFF?