Burning Sounds
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What changes did you make to get improved bass performance in acourate?
I tried adjusting the subsonic setting in Macro 4 first and found it made little difference until I was well away from my original 14 hz setting when it then mangled the step response.
After that it was systematically going through numerous iterations of both lower and upper frequency excess phase settings. I ended up with the same upper frequency settings as before but the lower setting was increased and removed that softness I was hearing. I'm quite happy with the bass now.
Interestingly, I was listening to Roger Waters' Amused to Death last night and found that with Acourate switched in the soundstage width was narrowed so that at its widest point it was just outside the left and right speakers, whilst using IIR filters in JRiver it was considerably wider with the image level with my left and right shoulders. I realise this an unusual album with its Q Sound encoding, but wondered how other folks' experience of the imaging was when playing this album using Acourate, Dirac or other room correction.