EQ file for Wharfedale Diamond 9.1

[AudioLimey]

Hello

I'm a new convert to affordable EQ...just installed MathAudio Headphone EQ into foobar2000.

My speakers are the Wharfedale Diamond 9.1, to which I listen via a desk setup, so near field, about 50cm from the baffles.
The room is untreated but there's at least 90cm to side and rear walls.
No sub.

GR Research has an analogue upgrade for the 9.1, FR graphs can be found here: https://gr-research.com/product/wharfedale-diamond-9-1-upgrade/

Does anyone have an EQ file that replicates this in MathAudio please?
If you do, could you reply and post-in the contents of the file?

I've tried searching this forum and also looked in @pierre 's website (https://www.spinorama.org), but couldn't find anything.

Many thanks

 

[ZolaIII]

You mean room EQ? https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...oom-eq-plug-in-for-foobar2000-from-mathaudio/
Get a measurement microphone and let it do it's job, repeat the measurements at least cuple of times and results should be good.

 

[staticV3]

Short of actually measuring your in-room response, I would use Stereophile's anechoic on-axis frequency response measurement to correct your Diamond 9.1:

Wharfedale Diamond 9.1 loudspeaker Measurements

Sidebar 3: Measurements As might be expected from its small size, the Diamond 9.1 is of below-average voltage sensitivity, at an estimated 85.5dB(B)/2.83V/m. However, its impedance plot (fig.1), other than a dip to 3.9 ohms in the lower midrange and a combination of 5.7 ohms impedance and –36°...

www.stereophile.com

Keeping in mind that the bass hump is an artifact of Stereophile's measurement methodology, I would restrict the EQ correction to >300Hz.

You can use WebPlotDigitizer to turn the graph into a .csv file, which you can load into REW or https://autoeq.app/ for automatic filter calculation.

 

[AudioLimey]

You mean room EQ? https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...oom-eq-plug-in-for-foobar2000-from-mathaudio/
Get a measurement microphone and let it do it's job, repeat the measurements at least cuple of times and results should be good.

Actually no. On another thread, @staticV3 said to use the Headphone plugin.

The linked thread was about applying a shelf filter (albeit for a different set of speakers)

Some I'm confused about which plugin I should be using.

I thought you can just apply a filter without having to do any room measurements oneself?

 

[JSmith]

GR Research

Please, don't listen to anything Danny says or buy anything he sells... you're in charlatan territory with GR "Research".


JSmith

 

[staticV3]

Actually no. On another thread, @staticV3 said to use the Headphone plugin.

The linked thread was about applying a shelf filter (albeit for a different set of speakers)

The Headphone EQ plugin is for applying manual EQ settings. It works the same for speakers or headphones.

The Room EQ plugin is for importing your REW Speaker measurements and automatic room EQ.

I thought you can just apply a filter without having to do any room measurements oneself?

You can, using Mathaudio Headphone EQ.

 

[AudioLimey]

The Headphone EQ plugin is for applying manual EQ settings. It works the same for speakers or headphones.

The Room EQ plugin is for importing your REW Speaker measurements and automatic room EQ.


You can, using Mathaudio Headphone EQ.

Thanks @staticV3 . So I have successfully imported one of Pierre's EQ files into the Headphone EQ plugin. I'm now looking for an EQ file specifically for the Diamond 9.1, if someone happens to have one that they can post here?

 

[ZolaIII]

Thanks @staticV3 . So I have successfully imported one of Pierre's EQ files into the Headphone EQ plugin. I'm now looking for an EQ file specifically for the Diamond 9.1, if someone happens to have one that they can post here?

Get the mic and EQ the room not the speakers! And I don't care would you do it by hand or automatic. You need to see what you are EQ-ing anyway. This are not headphones. Any half deacent measurement microphone would do (doesn't have to be UMIK-1) and not only for lows but at least up to 5 KHz and without calibration file.

 

[Barry_Sound]

Hello

I'm a new convert to affordable EQ...just installed MathAudio Headphone EQ into foobar2000.

My speakers are the Wharfedale Diamond 9.1, to which I listen via a desk setup, so near field, about 50cm from the baffles.
The room is untreated but there's at least 90cm to side and rear walls.
No sub.

GR Research has an analogue upgrade for the 9.1, FR graphs can be found here: https://gr-research.com/product/wharfedale-diamond-9-1-upgrade/

Does anyone have an EQ file that replicates this in MathAudio please?
If you do, could you reply and post-in the contents of the file?

I've tried searching this forum and also looked in @pierre 's website (https://www.spinorama.org), but couldn't find anything.

Many thanks

Go ahead if its fun but I dont think you can magically EQ something into budget speakers that isnt physically there. Room EQ doesnt matter much in your near field scenario either. Adjusting your seat height or leaning left / right will have a more dramatic effect.

 

[ZolaIII]

Go ahead if its fun but I dont think you can magically EQ something into budget speakers that isnt physically there. Room EQ doesnt matter much in your near field scenario either. Adjusting your seat height or leaning left / right will have a more dramatic effect.

Room bonderies are there and physics. When you deal with room modes you have already done half the job, luckily few won't have pronounced peek caused by room and even less won't have phase cancelled somewhere. And it will be there in low and high SPL levels and in any field. To deal with something you need to be able to see it and of course there is no compensation for optimal placement.
Played with their room EQ and it's pretty useful and dose multipass averaging while it's easy to use.

 

[staticV3]

I'm now looking for an EQ file specifically for the Diamond 9.1, if someone happens to have one that they can post here?

Here's one I made using Stereophile's measurements:

 

[AudioLimey]

Here's one I made using Stereophile's measurements:
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Thank you very much. I'll give it a try...