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Digital room correction

When will there be a simple, affordable 1 box solution where digital room correction can be dropped into any 2 channel system? A number of years ago, I owned a McIntosh MEN220 which was a really cool solution, it worked reasonably well and for the time it was introduced, it checked most of the boxes off. The digital technology inside that piece of gear was state of the art 10 years ago (24/96) but when is there going to be an update or an alternative solution?

I don’t really keep up with this stuff so please forgive me if there has been something introduced. I see a good part of this type of technology now in most decent subwoofers. It would be really cool if you could drop something into a tape loop on a preamp if it exists. Thanks in advance.
ghasley
ghasley OP
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Thank you for all of the replies. is The Minidsp SHD Studio a high quality piece? Does anyone have this? Does anyone use other products from Minidsp and is their service/support/build quality quite good?

I would feed it from my Auralic Aries G1 and into my Lampizator DAC. Is this company up to the task in a high quality system? I could certainly bypass it by feeding from the G1 directly to my Lampizator dac as I do now via usb. I like the idea of staying in the digital domain but I just am not familiar with the company.
mike_in_nc
1,154 posts
 
Regarding the SHD, Hans Beekhuyzen has a review on YouTube. You may be able to find more reviews around. I know that Kal Rubinson has reviewed some of the other miniDSP products for Stereophile.

miniDSP is known for lower-cost solutions to room correction. The SHD line looks like a step up from older miniDSP products, and I suspect it would work very well between a G1 and your DAC. The SHD Studio has Dirac room correction, considered one of the best available  algorithms, with a lot of flexibility. By using the all-digital version, you are leaving the conversions to the gear you own already.

Deer Creek Audio is a stocking US dealer. If you're in Europe, you can buy more easily from miniDSP directly.

Mike

P.S. I own the SHD (full version with DAC), which we use in our TV system. I have not had a chance to try it in the main "audiophile" system.

supabayes
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Trinnov ST2 Hifi or Amethyst Preamp. Expensive but they work really well.
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