Sebastiaan de Vries
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Hi Sebastiaan.
Sorry for the very late reply! I work as an electrician and I'm extremely busy at the moment!
Thank you for the very detailed reply! I've been reading through it and I'm a little jealous of your equipment.
My set up is in a typical English lounge and I'm limited in placement just like you. I currently use Spendor A7 speakers with March Audio P451 Monoblocks.
I use an Anthem STR Pre-Amp as volume control and source selection (This pre-amp has AES/EBU).
For music, I use an Innuos Mini Mk3 with a Linear PSU as a ROON core with TIDAL HIFI as a streaming service.
I use an OPPO UDP 203 for my movies which is hooked up to a Nvidia Shield running a PLEX server. The OPPO downmixes the multichannel from the movies to 2.1.
I use two subwoofers which are placed quite well and I get linear bass from 14hz to the crossover at 80hz.
The Anthem STR has room correction built in but would this work alongside the GLM?
I love your Trinnov! I bet that cost a fortune!!
Are the Genelecs ok near to sidewalls?
Don't be sorry. This is a hobby/passion, not a duty. any time...
Thanks for your information. Although many roads lead to Rome (so to speak), my recommendation would be, Since all your sources are digital anyway, stay entirely in the digital domain through the Genelecs.
If you choose to enter this new DSP corrected speaker era with the Genelecs, much of your current equipment is redundant, and I would suggest selling it and make a fresh start. For example, you don't need the amplifier and DAC section of the Anthem.
The Anthem STR only has a AES/EBU Input, but no AES/EBU out, so this even used as pre-amp cannot feed the Genelecs digitally.
A cost-effective option would the Mini DSP SHD as a digital pre-amp. You can connect your OPPO and Innuos digitally.
Then you can decide whether you want to use DIRAC or GLM or a combination of both. DIRAC will time align and amplitude correct your non-Genelec subs. I have used DIRAC prior to my Trinnov, and DIRAC did an exccellent job managing the subwoofers. I have a fair hope that DIRAC Live Bass Control comes to Mini DSP one day, and from the information, I have seen in theory, this must be an ultimate mutlisub calibration system.
https://www.minidsp.com/products/streaming-hd-series/shd
Unfortunately, the SHD only has S/PDIF output, so you need to add this Neutrik 75Ohm to 110Ohm convertor. This will not give any degradation in sound quality and works well.
https://www.neutrik.com/en/product/naditbnc-mx
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