Onkyo TX-NR7100 AVR Review

[dlaloum]

Absolutely. Umik-1 arrives tomorrow (well, today, I'm in ET) and this is when I want to use Dirac on my laptop. The reason I've used basic mic and the phone app the entire time is that honestly I'm quite happy with the results. There were times where I found myself spending hours, days even, building and then tuning something, configuring, reconfiguring, etc... instead of actually listening to the music and watching movies. I'd like to change that, and I've made some progress.

I was very pleasantly surprised by the great results using the included mic and the phone app....

To tell the truth, although I adjusted the target curves "to taste" - objectively speaking, I am not convinced the results are any better than what I achieved in the first 15min using the simplest method !!

I subsequently used the included mic and the PC app, then a UMIK1 and the PC app - more control yes, more quality no.

 

[rageworm]

I was very pleasantly surprised by the great results using the included mic and the phone app....

To tell the truth, although I adjusted the target curves "to taste" - objectively speaking, I am not convinced the results are any better than what I achieved in the first 15min using the simplest method !!

I subsequently used the included mic and the PC app, then a UMIK1 and the PC app - more control yes, more quality no.

I appreciate your feedback!

 

[EWL5]

I have nothing to prove to you. Dirac sets all peakers to 70 and sub to 120. Screenshot doesn't show sub but in menu it can be seen it always sets sub to 120 and all speakers to 70 after calibration. FWIW, I have this receiver for a couple of years now, played with it a lot, tried different rooms, ran Dirac on it many times, etc.

You have one more thing to check: could you please check what your Onkyo crossover setting is currently at (AVR side, not Dirac)?

 

[rageworm]

You have one more thing to check: could you please check what your Onkyo crossover setting is currently at (AVR side, not Dirac)?

As I've mentioned previously in avr menu I can see that all speakers set to 70 and sub to 120. Before I ran Dirac this time, I had crossover manually set to 80 for speakers and sub. Maybe it's a part of process and these values are default for nr7100 indeed - that I don't know... But it does it every time I run Dirac.

 

[Power Pop 23]

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