What I had been doing until now was
- using my old Denon receiver with regular-ass Audyssey MultEq and the included mic
- copying the measurements Audessy Flat came up with into a Roon EQ filter, and switching
off Audyssey on the receiver/using Direct mode
- Doing a software crossover (also via Roon EQ)
and then a bit of room treatment with cheap traps in the corners, and a sub crawl placement. Amateurish, hugely imperfect, but better than nothing and I thought it sounded pretty good.
Today I got my UMIK-1 and took some measurements of the above setup and I'm actually pretty happy (and pretty surprised) that above set of hacks/playing it by ear
already got me something this flat. I was expecting way worse, given the room shape.
Excited to do better now, but it goes to show what even a little bit of basic tweaking can do to help things.
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