Share your in-room measurements?

[8bits]

I am trying to do some measurements via REW to post here.
Do you use the mic pointing to the ceiling or directly to the speakers? Also, are these just a single sweep or is it some sort of avg of multiple sweeps (dunno if that's even a thing)?

 

[TurtlePaul]

I am trying to do some measurements via REW to post here.
Do you use the mic pointing to the ceiling or directly to the speakers? Also, are these just a single sweep or is it some sort of avg of multiple sweeps (dunno if that's even a thing)?

I usually use the mic pointed at the ceiling in listening position and use the 90 degree cal file. I would show three lines: 1) left channel, 2) right channel and 3) left + right.

I think doing a really long/high res sweep accomplishes the same improvements as multiple sweeps.

 

[ernestcarl]

I usually use the mic pointed at the ceiling in listening position and use the 90 degree cal file. I would show three lines: 1) left channel, 2) right channel and 3) left + right.

I think doing a really long/high res sweep accomplishes the same improvements as multiple sweeps.

Even if you use the maximum length for a single point sweep, it unlikely that such is going to give the same outcome from multi-point / spatial averaging measurement techniques -- not talking about which one will give you a better improvement -- as EQ in the bass when really bad due to room acoustics will always produce improvements.

 

[ernestcarl]

This Google Drive Link has:

1. The pictures of the room, 3D rendering with measurements and equipment info.
2. The processor (AVM 70 ARC Genesis) calibration details. I ran the REW measurements WITH ARC calibration ON.
3. The "House Curve" settings. I have two rows of seats. The main listening position is in the Front.
4. Raw REW measurements for both Front and Back seats.
5. Few spectrogram and decay pictures

Dealing with a room mode at 52Hz and relatively lower decay times in the Bass area.
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Around 730 Hz and above of your surround left channel, you seem to have an unusual peaking of the higher order harmonics:

It's possible that excessive EQ boost applied in your processor maybe causing some clipping artifacts already at your (relatively not so high) 85 dB sweep levels -- *or maybe it's just the speaker stand/mount vibrating.

 

[Ciobi69]

This Google Drive Link has:

1. The pictures of the room, 3D rendering with measurements and equipment info.
2. The processor (AVM 70 ARC Genesis) calibration details. I ran the REW measurements WITH ARC calibration ON.
3. The "House Curve" settings. I have two rows of seats. The main listening position is in the Front.
4. Raw REW measurements for both Front and Back seats.
5. Few spectrogram and decay pictures

Dealing with a room mode at 52Hz and relatively lower decay times in the Bass area.
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Nice decay time!

 

[iulianm]

Spent some more time today to blend in the subs as adjusting after my ear were much higher and obvious and now it feels like I have no subs
Revel M106 & 2 x SVS SB-1000 and I've done L+R measurement and bellow is RMS average with/without sub.

 

[YSC]

Spent some more time today to blend in the subs as adjusting after my ear were much higher and obvious and now it feels like I have no subs
Revel M106 & 2 x SVS SB-1000 and I've done L+R measurement and bellow is RMS average with/without sub.
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the sub level seems quite lok and is in room flat, maybe you would want to try increase the sub output by 5-6db?

 

[radix]

I moved to a new house a while ago, and this is the new living room. It's untreated and has pretty bare walls right now. I think I now have enough space in the new place to put in a good sub or two.

 

[goat76]

I moved to a new house a while ago, and this is the new living room. It's untreated and has pretty bare walls right now. I think I now have enough space in the new place to put in a good sub or two.

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It seems to be a volume difference of about 2 dB between the channels before the correction, why is that? Was the microphone at the same distance for both speaker, or did you move it between the measurements?

I mean, there's maybe something like a channel imbalance you should get right before you apply the DSP correction. Just a thought.

 

[radix]

It seems to be a volume difference of about 2 dB between the channels before the correction, why is that? Was the microphone at the same distance for both speaker, or did you move it between the measurements?

I mean, there's maybe something like a channel imbalance you should get right before you apply the DSP correction. Just a thought.

The MLP is not perfectly centered. -- it's show the living room furniture layout ended up. Perhaps I should center the mic and make sure there's not some other imbalance in the system. Thanks for the advice.

 

[txbdan]

Imo, the last two posted plots look a bit flat so probably sound a little thin. Personally, I like a bit more tilt than that, around +3.5dB on the low end and -3.5 at 20khz. 0dB at 1kHz.

 

[radix]

Imo, the last two posted plots look a bit flat so probably sound a little thin. Personally, I like a bit more tilt than that, around +3.5dB on the low end and -3.5 at 20khz. 0dB at 1kHz.

Yes, I agree. I had a tilted target curve in Dirac, but it came out pretty flat.

 

[iulianm]

the sub level seems quite lok and is in room flat, maybe you would want to try increase the sub output by 5-6db?

Thanks! I've actually done some EQ with REW and Roon with Harman Curve as target and while fiddling with sub levels to get as close as possible to the curve before applying EQ, now I'm back to having bass.
(Revel M106 + two SVS SB-1000)

Left & right speakers before EQ:

Left & right speakers predicted response after filter generation:

Measurement (both LEFT+RIGHT before and after EQ applied):

 

[flipflop]

Thanks! I've actually done some EQ with REW and Roon with Harman Curve as target and while fiddling with sub levels to get as close as possible to the curve before applying EQ, now I'm back to having bass.
(Revel M106 + two SVS SB-1000)

Left & right speakers before EQ:
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Left & right speakers predicted response after filter generation:
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Measurement (both LEFT+RIGHT before and after EQ applied):
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Please share the EQ filters.

 

[iulianm]

By share you mean the exported WAV file or how they looked in REW?

 

[Boerd]

Fresh from yesterday:

One speaker is close to a corner the other only to one wall - hence the bass difference.

 

[flipflop]

By share you mean the exported WAV file or how they looked in REW?
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You should be able to export them as a text document: Filter Tasks > Export filter settings as text

 

[iulianm]

Ah, ok.
Attached them. It's the first time when I'm playing with REW and ROON with EQ and these filters are after reducing the target level to minimize boosting frequencies as much as I can.

 

[Steve Dallas]

This is where I have ended up with my KEF R3s in my home office using targeted room treatment and Dirac Live Standalone. Things are a hair bright at the very top end, but I am pushing 50 and need some help above ~14KHz anyway. I am very pleased with this result.

If this is actually a true representation of how we hear, well...

 

[Chromatischism]

New room, dual sub placement and integration.