when to use digital room correction (and when not to) - acoustic frontiers
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WHEN TO USE DIGITAL ROOM CORRECTION (AND WHEN NOT TO!)
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DIGITAL ROOM CORRECTION
Many times I am frustrated by how people expect room correction devices to solve all the acoustic ills of their room. Listening room design devices ARE excellent at some things, particularly removing the negative influence of room modes, but cannot solve many acoustical issues. They should be thought about as a complement to appropriate acoustic treatment of first reflection points.
WHEN TO USE DIGITAL ROOM CORRECTION
The process for optimizing a system should be:
1. Measure system (equipment, speakers + room)
2. Design acoustic treatment scheme to resolve issues (early
reflections, modal resonances, etc.)
3. Setup the system (speaker positioning, listening seat
positioning).
4. Use room correction as a last resort for modal resonance issues
below 100Hz or so
WHEN TO USE DIGITAL ROOM CORRECTION
Once you’ve done this then you can start to
5. Fix speaker issues such as group delay, phase correction
using something like a DEQX processor.
6. Tune everything else, including power supply, equipment
support, cabling etc.
WHEN TO USE DIGITAL ROOM CORRECTION
But normally it is:
a) Buy expensive equipment
b) Place speakers where they look good with no or little thought or
knowledge as to best placement
c) Spend a lot of time worrying about cables and little things that
make small differences
WHEN TO USE DIGITAL ROOM CORRECTION
d) ignore the room because you
don’t understand the importance of it
e) think that some magic room
correction black box can make up for
b) and an untreated room
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