If you have a fairly decent in room response is DRC worthwhile?

[PRL]

I have a reasonably decent in room response and while it's not too line studio quality it is pretty good with no obvious peaks or suck outs. Is there a point where DRC may not be worthwhile?

I'm guessing that DRC can only do so much to overcome the room acoustics.

 

[Purité Audio]

I once set up a system in literally a glass house extension and the response was pretty flat but there wasn’t much bass, is your room of a very limp construction/
Keith

 

[PRL]

I once set up a system in literally a glass house extension and the response was pretty flat but there wasn’t much bass, is your room of a very limp construction/
Keith

It's pretty solid and I've had to trim the bass down a little on the tone controls to control it. My house was built in the 60s and believe it or not the internal walls are made from compressed straw coated in gypsum. Amazingly it doesn't support combustion very well.

 

[Weeb Labs]

Do you have measurements of the current in-room response?

I typically make use of DRC regardless, as there are few perfectly well behaved speakers which don’t benefit from some correction.

 

[ppataki]

Yes it would definitely make sense since a decent tool (like Dirac) will not only correct the frequency response but the step response also - and that will make a huge difference

 

[PRL]

Thanks, always good to see what others experience is. I have room measurements somewhere but can't find them right now. I used Audio Tools and a Dayton EMM6 mic.

 

[SadMonster]

Here is my average frequency response with 9 measurement points. It doesn’t look that bad to me but the difference Dirac corrections made is very significant to me. The biggest improvement in my system was clarity. You can disable Dirac corrections with a button and re-enable so you can compare sort of easily.

Listening Area Frequency Response:

https://imgur.com/UDL8npQ

 

[Jim Matthews]

You can disable Dirac corrections with a button and re-enable so you can compare sort of easily.

This is a most important aspect of DIRAC in MiniDSP application. After running through all the measurements I found the correction subtle, and preferred the presentation without processing.

Bathed dog principle

 

[Frgirard]

Here is my average frequency response with 9 measurement points. It doesn’t look that bad to me but the difference Dirac corrections made is very significant to me. The biggest improvement in my system was clarity. You can disable Dirac corrections with a button and re-enable so you can compare sort of easily.

Listening Area Frequency Response:

https://imgur.com/UDL8npQ

Do you listen in mono?

 

[SadMonster]

Do you listen in mono?

No but the other channel is similar you get the idea of the general consistency of the in room response here

 

[Frgirard]

No but the other channel is similar you get the idea of the general consistency of the in room response here

No definitely no.

https://gearspace.com/board/studio-building-acoustics/469574-measuring-room-acoustics.html

 

[SadMonster]

No definitely no.

https://gearspace.com/board/studio-building-acoustics/469574-measuring-room-acoustics.html

I’m not gonna read that cause I’m not sure what point you want me to get from it but I have both speakers measured for digital correction purposes but for illustrative purposes answering this guy’s question I think it’s fine