I spent the afternoon yesterday playing around with my new Flex and REW in my 2.1 system. Here’s what I ended up at:
I was targeting a Harman curve, and the REW auto EQ only gave me one filter, a cut around 29 Hz, so I added 4 more manual filters, with boosts ranging between 4 and 6 dB, between 58 and 180 Hz to fix some dips.
I’m also using what’s probably a non-standard crossover of 80 high pass and 50 low pass, both 1st order slopes. The reason why I‘m using such gentle slopes is because my mains (Magnepan .7) had smoother response in the bass than my sub (JL Audio D110), maybe because of the dipole dispersion or the pair vs single sub. The big peaks and valleys were pretty much in the same place in both the sub and mains measured separately (room issues), but they were smaller with the mains. So I’m trying to primarily hear the Maggies’ bass (which sound good and snappy to me, except lightweight and not balanced with the higher frequencie), with reinforcement from the sub, with the sub basically taking over below 40 Hz where the Maggies drop off.
So does anyone have any suggestions for improving this?
I was targeting a Harman curve, and the REW auto EQ only gave me one filter, a cut around 29 Hz, so I added 4 more manual filters, with boosts ranging between 4 and 6 dB, between 58 and 180 Hz to fix some dips.
I’m also using what’s probably a non-standard crossover of 80 high pass and 50 low pass, both 1st order slopes. The reason why I‘m using such gentle slopes is because my mains (Magnepan .7) had smoother response in the bass than my sub (JL Audio D110), maybe because of the dipole dispersion or the pair vs single sub. The big peaks and valleys were pretty much in the same place in both the sub and mains measured separately (room issues), but they were smaller with the mains. So I’m trying to primarily hear the Maggies’ bass (which sound good and snappy to me, except lightweight and not balanced with the higher frequencie), with reinforcement from the sub, with the sub basically taking over below 40 Hz where the Maggies drop off.
So does anyone have any suggestions for improving this?
- Also, should my adding a few 6 dB or less EQ boosts make me worried about reducing input levels in my Flex to avoid digital clipping, or does it have enough internal headroom that this would be highly unlikely?
- I limited myself to 6 dB max for my filters and left everything above 200 Hz alone based on various things I read (some in this forum), but ideally, I would like the dip between 150 and 300 Hz raised up more like 10 dB to make that sag smoother. Is that futile, and are the gentle boosts I used here the best I can do via digital correction?