Hi everbody,
I am seeking for advice from this excellent forum and its members , as after reading tons of threads and testing I do not get any further to my desired goal.
I am trying to use digital and room acustic enhancements to optimize the acoustic/sound of my speakers in my living room. I have heard them in another room setup and it was beyond what I can accomplish in my living room. I can make a few adjustments here and there but I just do not know what to go for next.
If you dont mind let me give you some information of my setup.
I am running a 5.2.2 setup with a Denon X8500H AVR, some Quadral Platinum speakers and 2 SVS SB-2000 Pro Subs.
In order to optimize my room I ordered a UMIK-1 mic and used REW to get measurements of decay and frequency response. My AVR uses Audyssey XT32 and after running a measurement I compared the results of audyssey against non-audyssey. I used the audyssey graphs to adjust my current setup. I saw that especially in the low range (20HZ peak put up to 200 HZ easily) I have a very long decay time and huge room modes. I used the SVS subs DSP with a parametric EQ to level at least the frequency response as best as I could. I didnt make any adjustments to the audyssey curves of the left and right speaker in the App to tune the EQ afterwards.
My Room looks the following (please see pictures attached) and I am willing to invest into some feasible and potential diffusors or absorbers to enhance my acoustic. I just dont know if it will benefit according to my room setup.
I started my optimization journey with 2 Basstraps (https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B077V3XK85/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) but to be honest, I didnt see any changes in the frequency response charts, nor in the waterfall chart. Isnt this where I should at least see a decay in the 50-200 HZ range (which is supposed to be the intended HZ range where the absorber filters frequencys) ?
As I didnt see any results in REW from my pass traps I removed them (due to WAF - could have convinced my wife but whats the point without measurable differences?)
I am thinking to put some absorbers oder diffusors (which one? diffusors or absorbers) onto my back wall to lower the decay time of my frequencies
I wouldnt know how to progress from now on - is there anything that you can recommend to me worth checking, doing, investing or whatsoever?
My Room size is 2.4H, 5M width and 8m long
Please see pictures of REW measurements of Front L Front R and Subs below - all done with audyssey XT32 and Subs adjusted with the DSP of the subs.
The Bass Traps in the pictures attached are only there because I just removed them from the corners, so no worries, they were placed in the corners in the back of the room.
Also find pictures of my living room attached to give you some vizualization and characteristics of the room
Left Speaker Pictures (Freq Response, Waterfall, Spectogram)
Right Speaker:
Sub
Please excuse any mistakes in writing - greetings from Germany
Please see Room Pictures attached
thank you so much in advance.
I am seeking for advice from this excellent forum and its members , as after reading tons of threads and testing I do not get any further to my desired goal.
I am trying to use digital and room acustic enhancements to optimize the acoustic/sound of my speakers in my living room. I have heard them in another room setup and it was beyond what I can accomplish in my living room. I can make a few adjustments here and there but I just do not know what to go for next.
If you dont mind let me give you some information of my setup.
I am running a 5.2.2 setup with a Denon X8500H AVR, some Quadral Platinum speakers and 2 SVS SB-2000 Pro Subs.
In order to optimize my room I ordered a UMIK-1 mic and used REW to get measurements of decay and frequency response. My AVR uses Audyssey XT32 and after running a measurement I compared the results of audyssey against non-audyssey. I used the audyssey graphs to adjust my current setup. I saw that especially in the low range (20HZ peak put up to 200 HZ easily) I have a very long decay time and huge room modes. I used the SVS subs DSP with a parametric EQ to level at least the frequency response as best as I could. I didnt make any adjustments to the audyssey curves of the left and right speaker in the App to tune the EQ afterwards.
My Room looks the following (please see pictures attached) and I am willing to invest into some feasible and potential diffusors or absorbers to enhance my acoustic. I just dont know if it will benefit according to my room setup.
I started my optimization journey with 2 Basstraps (https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B077V3XK85/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) but to be honest, I didnt see any changes in the frequency response charts, nor in the waterfall chart. Isnt this where I should at least see a decay in the 50-200 HZ range (which is supposed to be the intended HZ range where the absorber filters frequencys) ?
As I didnt see any results in REW from my pass traps I removed them (due to WAF - could have convinced my wife but whats the point without measurable differences?)
I am thinking to put some absorbers oder diffusors (which one? diffusors or absorbers) onto my back wall to lower the decay time of my frequencies
I wouldnt know how to progress from now on - is there anything that you can recommend to me worth checking, doing, investing or whatsoever?
My Room size is 2.4H, 5M width and 8m long
Please see pictures of REW measurements of Front L Front R and Subs below - all done with audyssey XT32 and Subs adjusted with the DSP of the subs.
The Bass Traps in the pictures attached are only there because I just removed them from the corners, so no worries, they were placed in the corners in the back of the room.
Also find pictures of my living room attached to give you some vizualization and characteristics of the room
Left Speaker Pictures (Freq Response, Waterfall, Spectogram)
Right Speaker:
Sub
Please excuse any mistakes in writing - greetings from Germany
Please see Room Pictures attached
thank you so much in advance.
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