If you go for a full correction, the 10 filters Roon offers make it possible, 5 of the RME won't cut it. If you do not mind making your own 5-filter EQ with AutoEQ or using any other 5-filter settings, the RME is good enough. EQing at the RME stage also lets anything that you connect to it also output EQ'd audio, while with Roon you can only output anything you play through Roon. Roon is more powerful with convolution filters, which are even better at correcting flaws than parametric EQ.
Thank you very much. Very helpful.
It's actually 7 if taking the Bass/Treble ones into account which can be changed just like the others (minus some limits regarding frequency range etc). Still not 10, but depending on application it can be enough.
IIRC the Adi manual mentions which types of filters are used exactly, and these are known fairly standard mathematical equations turned into software, so if Roon uses the same filters then given the same parameter sets bot should produce the exact same output. Even if not, it's hard to talk about this as difference in 'quality': a different type of filter yields different sound but it's usually not possible to qualify that as better or worse - just different.
Thank you!
Yeah.. The manual explains it fairly well, following it step by step should get you there in no time; that being said: I'm used to operating various hardware devices with controls like that so even after forgetting how it works exactly I can figure it out quickly, and given the amount of knobs available they did a good job, but that doesn't change the simple fact that objectively speaking it's still not exactly easy let alone convenient and that for 'normal' people it can be annoying to no end
Just like the VOL/EQ/... labels being below their respective buttons remains an endless struggle for me. Ok I'm used otherwise, but still: device is usually below eye level, most of humanity reads top to bottom, so why oh why did they put the labels below the buttons?
Thank you. In the RME ADI-2, the one thing I have trouble with is how to save an EQ profile that I have changed manually to a specific register and then give it a name. I have managed to do it a couple times - by chance— , but never was able to remember afterwards the exact sequence that led to success. I wish RME would post a step-by-step instructional video.
On point 2, not factoring for ease of use, if you need more than 5 bands and don’t need to eq on any other sources-the answer is probably yes. If you need eq on more than one source into the rme, roon won’t help you.
Logical, yes, user friendly is not.
Thank you for pointing me to this video.
Great point. Thank you.
Go to EQ menu (push EQ button twice), the last item is "Save to", with encoder 2 you set the preset you want to write it to.
That’s true, but as home consumers seem to be a segment that RME are now pitching towards they may wish to prepare for less sophisticated users who may be confused by a more complex ui. @MC_RME it’s a rock and a hard place I know.
Folks, the RME DAC is a complex machine and therefore its operation is complex too, that's unavoidable. Putting that amount of functionality in such a small screen is quite an achievement actually.
Everyone likes to sell products, but I don't think RME is targeting the average home user. Average home users want a button to start the music and another one to stop it. The average user in ASR is not the average user
I don't think RME never left the professional segment, I think they spotted a kind of corner case where professionals and aficionados can have similar needs.
