First MMM measurement of my 5-sub stacked setup, how to EQ?

[olds1959special]

I followed the "MMM measurements for dummies" instructions and came up with this without EQ. I am trying the settings I showed in the second picture to reduce peaks in the bass in the L/R subs. Should I take another measurement now?

 

[staticV3]

Should I take another measurement now?

If you want to see whether your EQ was effective, then yes: Taking another measurement would be the way to go.

Some tips regarding MMM:
-Most music is coherent below ~200Hz, so make sure your Generator is set to Output: L+R
-In the RTA window->Cogwheel->Appearance-> make sure that "Use bars on RTA" is turned Off.

 

[olds1959special]

If you want to see whether your EQ was effective, then yes: Taking another measurement would be the way to go.

Some tips regarding MMM:
-Most music is coherent below ~200Hz, so make sure your Generator is set to Output: L+R
-In the RTA window->Cogwheel->Appearance-> make sure that "Use bars on RTA" is turned Off.

I played around with EQ (Sound Source AUNBandEQ + MiniDSP PEQ) and got this measurement. Does this look acceptable?

 

[kemmler3D]

I played around with EQ and got this measurement.

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I've definitely seen worse, but I think there is still some optimization possible. It looks like you've handled the original peaks but have in the process created some troughs and/or some of the troughs have gotten worse. You will want to play with gain and Q a bit...

To save time / headaches you can use the REW EQ optimization tool to generate filter settings, then you can just copy those into your EQ tool, or import the EQ settings via text file if it's supported. REW's EQ optimizer is not magic but IME it tends to produce pretty good results with less trial and error.

More importantly, how does it sound to you at this point?

 

[staticV3]

I played around with EQ (Sound Source AUNBandEQ + MiniDSP PEQ) and got this measurement. Does this look acceptable?

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Nice! No more peaks as far as I can tell.

What's left are the dips at 55, 100, 145Hz which EQ likely isn't effective for.

 

[olds1959special]

Final measurement after tweaking EQ:

 

[levimax]

Final measurement after tweaking EQ:

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I agree with the previous post about letting REW EQ take a shot at it, my experience is it does a better job than any manual filters I come up with. The other thing to try is look at "psychoacoustic smoothing" or "ERB smoothing" which shows how we hear thing and will make you feel better about some of those sharp dips.

 

[olds1959special]

I've definitely seen worse, but I think there is still some optimization possible. It looks like you've handled the original peaks but have in the process created some troughs and/or some of the troughs have gotten worse. You will want to play with gain and Q a bit...

To save time / headaches you can use the REW EQ optimization tool to generate filter settings, then you can just copy those into your EQ tool, or import the EQ settings via text file if it's supported. REW's EQ optimizer is not magic but IME it tends to produce pretty good results with less trial and error.

More importantly, how does it sound to you at this point?

See my last measurement which includes final tweaks. I'm not sure if I can use the REW EQ optimization tool since I'm combining two EQ's together, one is the miniDSP and the other is SoundSource AUNBandEQ (since I'm using a multi-output device) but I'll check it out.

After listening for a while I think it sounds much better!

 

[kemmler3D]

See my last measurement which includes final tweaks. I'm not sure if I can use the REW EQ optimization tool since I'm combining two EQ's together, one is the miniDSP and the other is SoundSource AUNBandEQ (since I'm using a multi-output device) but I'll check it out.

After listening for a while I think it sounds much better!

You can have REW come up with a set of filters, then add them manually. I think you can tell REW how many filters to use so it can be compatible with any standard PEQ.