Minidsp WITH dirac live

[Lsi]

Hi all
I have 2 chanel sytem And bad living room acoustics
My setup is kef ls50 meta, marantz pm 7000n, extranl dac smsl ultra, surce blusound, And sub rel t5x,
What u advice me to do?
Can mini dsp with dirac live solve the problem?
I hanks for helping

 

[Old_School_Brad]

Dirac Live can't fix poor acoustics, but it might be able to improve the sound to some extent.

What do you mean by "bad"? Could you describe your room?

 

[Lsi]

The living room is 4/ז4 meters, the left side is open to the kitchen and the right side is a glass wall. The main problem is that the right side always sounds louder. No matter how much I tried to play with the distance of the speakers from the wall.
Thnks shay

 

[mcdn]

It sounds louder because of the extra sidewall reflections. And yes it can be improved with DSP. You might need to make some manual adjustments but the end result should be to make the left speaker a bit louder overall, and to reduce the right speaker output in the frequencies where the glass wall reflects most. Your speakers have very well controlled directivity so will respond well to DSP room correction.

 

[mcdn]

Dirac Live can't fix poor acoustics, but it might be able to improve the sound to some extent.

What do you mean by "bad"? Could you describe your room?

Isn’t the entire point of room correction that it fixes poor acoustics? It can’t fix everything, but it can fix most things that people mean by “room acoustics”.

 

[Old_School_Brad]

Isn’t the entire point of room correction that it fixes poor acoustics? It can’t fix everything, but it can fix most things that people mean by “room acoustics”.

When I talk about a room’s acoustics, I’m referring to its physical aspects -layout, materials, and design. That’s why I said Dirac Live can’t "fix" a room’s acoustics in a physical sense. However, it can absolutely improve the sound by compensating for the room’s acoustic properties. Think of it as adaptation to the room’s characteristics.

 

[Lsi]

Thnks you all
So What you advice to buy?

 

[Old_School_Brad]

I highly recommend giving Dirac Live a try. Please don't interpret my comments as dismissive. Purchasing Dirac Live has been the most significant and impactful upgrade I've ever made in audio.

 

[JustJones]

If you are only interested in Dirac you could upgrade your Bluesound device since you're familiar with the UI to one of the newer models unless your device is one of them . N132 or N530

 

[Lsi]

No its the old one (blusound nod 2i)

 

[Snoopy]

There are special curtains that provide some acoustic treatment. I would look at that as a option too. Also absorber panels , diffusers etc .. but this would run you down several hundred bucks at least but it might give Dirac a fighting chance

 

[Rocky Rococo]

Isn’t the entire point of room correction that it fixes poor acoustics? It can’t fix everything, but it can fix most things that people mean by “room acoustics”.

It can't fix reflections, no matter what it does they're still there. And it can't really fix nulls due to stsnding waves, no matter how much energy you push into a null not much more comes out. It does an excellent job with peaks by pulling them down which is why many people report lower perceived gain after dirac.

 

[mcdn]

When I talk about a room’s acoustics, I’m referring to its physical aspects -layout, materials, and design. That’s why I said Dirac Live can’t "fix" a room’s acoustics in a physical sense. However, it can absolutely improve the sound by compensating for the room’s acoustic properties. Think of it as adaptation to the room’s characteristics.

That’s a bit reductive though. Of course DSP can’t change the environment around it. In the OP’s case it probably can make the experience at the main listening position approximate what it would have been if the room was symmetrical. So I would say it can fix the acoustics in this case

 

[Old_School_Brad]

That’s a bit reductive though. Of course DSP can’t change the environment around it. In the OP’s case it probably can make the experience at the main listening position approximate what it would have been if the room was symmetrical. So I would say it can fix the acoustics in this case

That’s the distinction between physical and perceived acoustics.

A room mode remains a physical characteristic of the room’s acoustics, even if the DSP has mitigated its effects by attenuating the signal frequencies at and around that mode.