I have axiom axiom dipole lfr1100s in my living room with a single EP500 sub. the audio comes from amazon fire tv cube tosline -> vizio tv toslink (which i think resamples so i'm thinking of extracting spdif from the HDMI out on the cube). this runs into a sabaj d5 to XLRs into the adau1701 DSP (the designer recently designed an upgrade but of course he had to redesign with AKM chips and now he has to redesign due to the fire . it'll be a few months before he has a new ESS or ? solution ) + 4-channel ADA1000 and RCA into the sub which produces plenty of low end.
it sounds good enough for HT, but i'm starting to find that the critical listening is lacking. i do really like the dipoles because my listening room is, well, crap, and my couch is huge. i think i'd like to dirac because full room response is critical for the dipole tuning. however, i'm not sure whether i should do it in the digital domain or replace the sabaj with a 2.4HD + dirac plugin. i have a umik already, but i haven't measured in the room yet because i can't apply any corrections between the cube or TV yet. also lack of time this weekend, since i blew all my correction time on my near field genelecs in my office (which are amazing)
because of WAF, i'm not going to put an SHD streamer in the chain. i'll probably also not buy a 2.4HD and then a 22d because i'd rather one and done. that said, she mostly uses the system for HT, so the critical listening is something i'm doing. she uses her headphone system for critical listening for the most part, but that's also because the living room system doesn't hold a candle to her headphones.
any thoughts on this? one thing to consider if that there is a HUGE on axis listening position because of the dipole response. hence, my desire to do multiple dirac measurements instead of a single REW EQ at a single listening position.
it sounds good enough for HT, but i'm starting to find that the critical listening is lacking. i do really like the dipoles because my listening room is, well, crap, and my couch is huge. i think i'd like to dirac because full room response is critical for the dipole tuning. however, i'm not sure whether i should do it in the digital domain or replace the sabaj with a 2.4HD + dirac plugin. i have a umik already, but i haven't measured in the room yet because i can't apply any corrections between the cube or TV yet. also lack of time this weekend, since i blew all my correction time on my near field genelecs in my office (which are amazing)
because of WAF, i'm not going to put an SHD streamer in the chain. i'll probably also not buy a 2.4HD and then a 22d because i'd rather one and done. that said, she mostly uses the system for HT, so the critical listening is something i'm doing. she uses her headphone system for critical listening for the most part, but that's also because the living room system doesn't hold a candle to her headphones.
any thoughts on this? one thing to consider if that there is a HUGE on axis listening position because of the dipole response. hence, my desire to do multiple dirac measurements instead of a single REW EQ at a single listening position.