wgb113
Active Member
Hey everyone,
Looking for some input as to what I might be encountering with my recent implementation of Dirac Live 2.0 via miniDSP DDRC-24. Setup is as follows:
MacMini (macOS Catalina) running Roon->USB->miniDSP DDRC-24->RCA->KEF LS50W (w/Sub Out to Elac SUB3010)
My room is small at 10'W x 12'L x 9'H and slightly asymmetrical due to a doorway in the rear right and a shelving unit along the left side. The speakers are placed per KEF's guidelines to that they're 1/5 out into the room from the front and side walls and on 24" stands with about 20% toe-in. My listening position is 38% out from the rear wall. As you can imagine, this results in a near field setup where the speakers are 5' apart and also 5' from where my noggin lands.
The room has treatment in the form of soffit traps that run around the perimeter and floor to ceiling corner traps in the front corners.
After reading some positive reviews of the results that could be had with Dirac Live 2.0 I decided to try out the miniDSP DDRC-24, looking for the combo to be the "icing on the cake" so to speak.
Neither Dirac Live 2.0 nor the latest miniDSP software officially support macOS Catalina but I was able to get them to work and measured using the Chair position with success. I exported 4 different filter options from Dirac Live to the miniDSP:
Freq / Correction
38 / +2
74 / +1.5
143 / +1.1
278 / +0.6
540 / +0.1
1050 / -0.4
2040 / -0.8
3970 / -1.3
7720 / -1.8
15000 / -2.3
The corrections to the bass are welcome, it's more even over those octaves now, but the impact to the soundstage and imaging is where I'm struggling. While it's shifted centered things to the center as opposed to slightly to the left, it's collapsed the soundstage to one that's very flat with no space around instruments and voices and there's a lack of detail like a blanket's been thrown over the speakers.
I'm not sure what the cause is but it's across all four filters.
Bill
Looking for some input as to what I might be encountering with my recent implementation of Dirac Live 2.0 via miniDSP DDRC-24. Setup is as follows:
MacMini (macOS Catalina) running Roon->USB->miniDSP DDRC-24->RCA->KEF LS50W (w/Sub Out to Elac SUB3010)
My room is small at 10'W x 12'L x 9'H and slightly asymmetrical due to a doorway in the rear right and a shelving unit along the left side. The speakers are placed per KEF's guidelines to that they're 1/5 out into the room from the front and side walls and on 24" stands with about 20% toe-in. My listening position is 38% out from the rear wall. As you can imagine, this results in a near field setup where the speakers are 5' apart and also 5' from where my noggin lands.
The room has treatment in the form of soffit traps that run around the perimeter and floor to ceiling corner traps in the front corners.
After reading some positive reviews of the results that could be had with Dirac Live 2.0 I decided to try out the miniDSP DDRC-24, looking for the combo to be the "icing on the cake" so to speak.
Neither Dirac Live 2.0 nor the latest miniDSP software officially support macOS Catalina but I was able to get them to work and measured using the Chair position with success. I exported 4 different filter options from Dirac Live to the miniDSP:
- Dirac's default target curve.
- Slightly more tilted version of Dirac's target curve.
- A version of #2 that was the same below 250Hz but flat up to 10kHz.
- A version of #2 that was the same below 250Hz and only corrected below that frequency.
Freq / Correction
38 / +2
74 / +1.5
143 / +1.1
278 / +0.6
540 / +0.1
1050 / -0.4
2040 / -0.8
3970 / -1.3
7720 / -1.8
15000 / -2.3
The corrections to the bass are welcome, it's more even over those octaves now, but the impact to the soundstage and imaging is where I'm struggling. While it's shifted centered things to the center as opposed to slightly to the left, it's collapsed the soundstage to one that's very flat with no space around instruments and voices and there's a lack of detail like a blanket's been thrown over the speakers.
I'm not sure what the cause is but it's across all four filters.
Bill
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