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GLM only corrects up to 1 kHz?

Kain

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Is this true? If yes, any "issues" with this?

The thing is that GLM does NOTHING from 1 kHz to 24 kHz!
Their GLM system ONLY works up to 1 kHz.
You are wrong with your conclusions.

Source: https://gearspace.com/board/showpost.php?p=17164167&postcount=1332

Regarding the work of GLM - or rather the fact that their adjustment does NOT work above 1 kHz - I received this answer officially from Genelec. They explain this by the fact that Calibration above 1 kHz on their monitors will lead to problems and desynchronization of the Precise Perception of Stereo - between two monitors (and more).
I think that for those people - who thought that their Genelec 8351B and 8341A monitors - began to sound "Bright" after calibration - this can only be explained by the fact that GLM has maximally reduced a large amount of "boost/amplification" of low frequencies from 100 Hz and below (due to problems with the room). Having reduced (leveled out) the problems in the low spectrum - high frequencies (according to sensations) began to prevail.

Source: https://gearspace.com/board/showpost.php?p=17164351&postcount=1343
 
It's sort of true though, the automatic room correction part does not do a lot above 1-2khz, probably because attempting room correction much above the room transition is a bit of a crapshoot with reflections, listening position etc. anyway, to my understanding. You can however manually apply filters in GLM in whatever frequency range your heart desires.
 
It's sort of true though, the automatic room correction part does not do a lot above 1-2khz, probably because attempting room correction much above the room transition is a bit of a crapshoot with reflections, listening position etc. anyway, to my understanding. You can however manually apply filters in GLM in whatever frequency range your heart desires.

Yes, this is the answer. To my knowledge GLM corrects up to about 800Hz, to correspond with the range controlled by one of the hardware DIP switches on the back of the speaker (when the speaker is used in manual mode without GLM) - but for all I know GLM could in fact go up slightly higher to the 1-2kHz range.

Regardless, as @JustJones says, there's the adjustable high shelf filter in the Sound Character Profiler, which is a target/preference curve tool that you can adjust after, and separately from, the room correction. And if you really want to get into it, you can also manually adjust - and add - filters to the room correction filter itself, almost without limit.

I have experimented with this latter feature myself, but I have found that my manual adjustments either made no audible difference or changed the sound for the worse.

The Sound Character Profiler, by contrast, is dead-easy to use, nondestructive in that it doesn't change the underlying room correction filtering and EQ, and produces clearly audible, non-jarring changes in the perceived tonal balance, which is exactly what it's designed to do.

It's a very common complaint with pretty much every automated room correction app - GLM, Audyssey, Dirac - that the corrected sound is sometimes perceived as lacking in bass. It does seem like some apps have some room for improvement in this regard, but GLM isn't one of them, and on the whole I think the problem is that a properly designed app will knock down the peaks but not boost the nulls (since doing so would just take more amp power and stress the drivers more to no audible benefit). So the overall bass energy is indeed reduced, albeit more linear.

But again, if you feel the bass is too attenuated and the high end too prominent, that's what something like the Sound Character Profiler is for. GLM limits you to +/- 3dB on those shelves, but that still enables you to alter the bass-treble balance by 6dB, which is considerable.
 
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You can see with GLM5 that it actually prepares the filters for higher frequencies as well with the correct frequency and Q but does not apply any gain (so the filters are not in effect). You can however easily add in the negative gain and test for results. For example you know from measurements that a genelec speaker has a broader bump at 2khz on and off axis it may just make sense to try and bring that down to being neutral. If it's a narrow band room reflection and not a feature of the speaker it may make sense to not correct.
 
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