Your a hard man Ray.
You told me the same once and I was not pleased. New users are looking for a little more step by step guidance and have some fear of the unknown. REW can be a daunting prospect for the beginner and due to it's power can be very confusing.How do you really learn how to do anything other than by doing it?
Thank you sir. Also, for other newbies like myself in the same situation, I found a very useful piece on the Roon forum. Here is the URL: https://community.roonlabs.com/t/a-guide-how-to-do-room-correction-and-use-it-in-roon/23800You told me the same once and I was not pleased. New users are looking for a little more step by step guidance and have some fear of the unknown. REW can be a daunting prospect for the beginner and due to it's power can be very confusing.
Just fool with it till you break something, then ask for help, isn't the best choice of advice. IMHO
The good news is there's tons of other info available, maybe the better approach is to point them to it.
The only problem is that this, and other guides talk about connecting to an HDMI port on the receiver.
I plan to connect my MacBook running REW to a DAC, which will connect to one of the spare analog inputs into the AMP.
I recently bought iLoud Micro for my desktop PC.
Got measurements on REW from UMIK-1, using the calibration file. Left all "hardware" equalization off on the speakers and this is what I got:
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I'm using variable smoothing as that's suggested for equalizing stuff.
Now, I've then done some experiments on generating equalization filters and this is what I get as a result:
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It takes care of the boominess I was hearing but I'm left wondering if it's normal that it basically ignores all the frequencies higher than about 900Hz, no matter what I tell REW to do in "Match Range" input fields. That dip at 1.2KHz looks kind of worrying. Do I worry for nothing and this is normal behavior?
These are the filters it generates (which I use with EqualizerAPO):
Filter 1: ON PK Fc 219 Hz Gain -21.9 dB Q 2.296
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 108 Hz Gain -25.2 dB Q 2.561
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 120 Hz Gain 10.6 dB Q 2.093
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 79.4 Hz Gain 18.0 dB Q 3.801
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 219 Hz Gain 18.0 dB Q 5.000
Filter 6: ON PK Fc 255 Hz Gain 11.3 dB Q 5.000
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 501 Hz Gain -3.2 dB Q 1.011
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 267 Hz Gain -10.4 dB Q 5.000
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 58.7 Hz Gain -12.2 dB Q 4.306
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 294 Hz Gain 10.4 dB Q 5.000
Filter 11: ON PK Fc 294 Hz Gain 10.4 dB Q 5.000
Filter 12: ON PK Fc 332 Hz Gain -7.0 dB Q 5.000
Filter 13: ON PK Fc 160 Hz Gain 11.0 dB Q 12.918
Filter 14: ON PK Fc 450 Hz Gain -3.5 dB Q 5.000
Filter 15: ON PK Fc 397 Hz Gain 3.5 dB Q 5.000
Filter 16: ON PK Fc 496 Hz Gain 2.1 dB Q 5.000
Filter 17: ON PK Fc 76.8 Hz Gain -3.1 dB Q 11.740
Filter 18: ON PK Fc 168 Hz Gain -0.1 dB Q 8.780
Filter 19: ON PK Fc 144 Hz Gain -1.1 dB Q 11.938
Filter 20: ON PK Fc 73.6 Hz Gain 0.7 dB Q 11.665
Ok, so... something similar happened to me three years ago. I had been told that my target level was too high for REW to calculate filters for high frequencies. And, in fact, if I lower target level from 75db to 73db it smooths out the all spectrum. I wonder, maybe I should use the -3db bass switch on the speakers, in order to have basses less overpowering?perhaps you allowed narrow filters in low freq so most filtering go there. Also it is better to sort the eq list by Hz so they can be read easier
and what "Max boost" value you used? I guess rew is just out of gas to pull out such a dipno matter what I tell REW to do in "Match Range" input fields
I managed to get it flat by increasing the max boost and remeasuring. But they honestly don't sound good, even if EQ curve says otherwise.and what "Max boost" value you used? I guess rew is just out of gas to pull out such a dip
Have you seen this?I recently bought iLoud Micro
Maybe your ears just need more time?they honestly don't sound good, even if EQ curve says otherwise
It's not that, I've got Sennheiser HD800 in the same listening position. They're equalized to the Harman curve. Equalizing the highs makes everything sound wrong and shrill. By limiting EQ to bass frequencies the sound is much closer to that of the headphones (and I'm talking about the highs, mainly, I know Harman curve emphasizes bass a bit).Maybe your ears just need more time?
I finally got a umik-1 direct from HK (shockingly fast delivery). Using the tutorial made it very fast to measure my JBL 305mkii. Now that I got the hang of it, would love a part 3. A what do we do now that we have the in room response guide