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Do these measurements and corrections look kosher to you?

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Hello all!

Long time reader, first time poster here.

About 4 months ago I took the dive and purchased Dirac Live RCS. I had just moved houses, upgraded to a new pair of monitors, and put all my acoustic treatments up.

Anyway, I've been living with it since then and I can totally hear what its cleaning up. But the difference with it on vs off is easily discernible.

The speakers sound amazing either way. But I'm looking for as close to total transparency from them as I can get.

I cant shake the feeling I've done something wrong with the correction so I thought I'd post on here and get some opinions and advice.

Frequency Response of Speakers : 42-25khz
Room Description : Polygonal Nightmare, difficult to describe, but will take a LIDAR scan and post it soon.
Measured With - UMIK1 @90deg w/ Calibration File

Measurements are an average of the Dirac “box” centered around, and in the listening position.
I think it takes measurements of Left, Right, then Left and Right, in 9 positions.
I was very militant in making sure the measurements were taken correctly.

Purple is the left measurement, Teal is the right. I don't know how to export the raw data out of Dirac.
So all I have are these screenshots..

But any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Stray
 

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Hello Stray, welcome to ASR. We need a little bit more info, specifically on how the measurement was taken. We need to know whether this is one speaker, both speakers, an average measurement over several positions, whether the measurement was taken properly, etc. Please read this: how to ask for help on ASR.

In general, when doing room correction, you should leave the upper frequencies alone or corrected as gently as possible. This is because high frequencies have short wavelengths, which means that even minor changes in microphone position will result in a different measurement. So it is wrong to do a high resolution correction for one very specific microphone position.
 
Thankyou Keith! I have edited the post to clarify as best I can.
Regarding the high frequencies, does that mean I should cut off Dirac around say ~500hz?
I'm just concerned about that dip around 2.5k I guess..
I appreciate the reply.
 
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