Jimi Floyd
Active Member
First of all Merry Christmas to everybody,
Since November there is a new version out of Dirac Live, which I am trying out taking data and loading its filters on a MiniDsp SHD, as usual. There is a quite funny filter behaviour with respect to the old 3.10.10. My room has a very strong floor-to-ceiling resonance at 32Hz, and while the 3.10.10 version is very efficient in killing it, the new 3.11.0 designed filters are much more blurred and suppress it much less selectively. Also, the new 3.11.0 refuses to boost my speakers to 20Hz and stops the bass boosting at 26-28Hz and level out the 10kHz+ frequencies 1dB higher than my previous results.
These are the Dirac Live filter frequency response (left channel) obtained with the same data and same target curve for versions 3.10.10 (blue curve) and 3.11.0 (red curve)
So I thought, maybe the new version must have fresh data taken instead of relying on the "old" data, so I took new measurements, but actually the outcome is very similar. The plots cannot be directly compared to the one above because in the meanwhile I have changed speakers position, I hope for the better. I also changed microphone, from an Umik-1 to an Umik-2. Check the left and right channel plots with data taken and analysed by 3.10.10 vs data taken and analysed with 3.11.0
There's a very good agreement but I don't like the 32Hz resonance not very well suppressed, I don't like the lack of support down to 20Hz and I don't understand that 1dB difference above 10kHz. For the moment I still prefer the 3.10.10 corrections
Has anybody of you done any test with version 3.11.0? Did you compare it to 3.10.10? What's your experience and feelings? Do you like it?
Since November there is a new version out of Dirac Live, which I am trying out taking data and loading its filters on a MiniDsp SHD, as usual. There is a quite funny filter behaviour with respect to the old 3.10.10. My room has a very strong floor-to-ceiling resonance at 32Hz, and while the 3.10.10 version is very efficient in killing it, the new 3.11.0 designed filters are much more blurred and suppress it much less selectively. Also, the new 3.11.0 refuses to boost my speakers to 20Hz and stops the bass boosting at 26-28Hz and level out the 10kHz+ frequencies 1dB higher than my previous results.
These are the Dirac Live filter frequency response (left channel) obtained with the same data and same target curve for versions 3.10.10 (blue curve) and 3.11.0 (red curve)
So I thought, maybe the new version must have fresh data taken instead of relying on the "old" data, so I took new measurements, but actually the outcome is very similar. The plots cannot be directly compared to the one above because in the meanwhile I have changed speakers position, I hope for the better. I also changed microphone, from an Umik-1 to an Umik-2. Check the left and right channel plots with data taken and analysed by 3.10.10 vs data taken and analysed with 3.11.0
There's a very good agreement but I don't like the 32Hz resonance not very well suppressed, I don't like the lack of support down to 20Hz and I don't understand that 1dB difference above 10kHz. For the moment I still prefer the 3.10.10 corrections
Has anybody of you done any test with version 3.11.0? Did you compare it to 3.10.10? What's your experience and feelings? Do you like it?
