Anything new with digital room correction?


Last time I tried DRC I was not too happy with it.
It was TacT Audio RCS 2.0, although it did the job and took care of LF problems, it robbed music of transients, dynamics and details were seriously affected.
Is there DRC that would allow you to specify range in which it works, for example deal with 400Hz down, and do not touch I any way anything above 400Hz?
sashav

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It's certainly better if you go from digital out to processor before converting to analog. Not everyone has a separate transport (or source) and DAC, in which case an additional D/A and A/D is required. Even so, I do not agree that the digital correction is better. There are some that are good, and others are horrible due to digital artifacts. Some use very steap slopes and sampling of curves that cause a ringing artifact. My graduate work was in digital signal processing and I know the caveats of attempting this in the digital domain. This is the main reason we went to an analog only domain system.

I'm still curious from Sashav's point of view why digital for his application.
Why does it need to be digital? If you want the purest way to deal with room modes operating 350 Hz and below and not messing with the signal above why not use the Rives Audio PARC. Here's a link to a reveiw.
Mmike: It's true most CD players have digital out--but in that case where will you do the D/A. Most Cd players do not have a digital input. Some very high end ones do, but most don't. And I'm also considering the possibility of analog sources such as a turntable or tuner. I did not mean to imply "you have to buy new equipment." I was only trying to point out some potential caveats. That's to say there is one and only one way to accomplish the goal. It's more a matter of helping those reading this post to define their goal and then what approach might work best. Obviously, it's not the same answer for everyone.
Mike--I actually did mean digital end. My point was getting a really good D/A conversion. You are right most CD players do have digital out--but my concern was where will the D/A conversion take place. If the CD player is a top shelf unit you wouldn't want to just use the digital out and convert D/A with something that's not up to par. What would be pretty nice is if you could go digital out to a really good digital processor and then back to a top shelf D/A. This would work great if you used separate transport and DAC or in the rare event the CD player did have a digital in. However, this obviously limits the sources that would be corrected.