DSP? Does it really do that much???


I have a av processor and did all the testing in various positions which then took all this information and did something and yes it did change the sound overall to the room.

And then I looked under the hood to find out how my system changed and Ohiosaw that it refined distances between speakers and the volume levels. And then it did adjustments to my curve, and isn’t the curve just a glorified way to adjust the various frequency levels that you’d see on an equalizer? The user friendly version.

I mean the curve really was very comparable to what it was before I did DSP and I guess I could make manual changes to it. The only way you can really adjust things like an equalizer within your home theatre system

And then when I use DSP it all goes through a filter and that’s OK (maybe)for home theatre but for stereo listening it’s not a good thing.

All the other crazy quirky things this DSP supposedly does are so difficult to understand and I’m not sure what it accomplishes. The interfaces are not the greatest to use and then you have lots of signal errors which are annoying.

I just wish I understood whether it’s all that good a thing to do. Maybe if I had 15 speakers it may have value but just front and back and a sub and a centre can be easily adjusted by me.

emergingsoul

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@emergingsoul Sounds like you are talking specifically about room correction. 

One of the best things they do well is make sure the sub and main speakers are properly integrated, something most amateurs can't do very well at all.  They should also help the speakers sound seamless so that sounds move around the room without breaks or enhancements.

Ideally, room correction doesn't have to do much to bring the speakers close to ideal, but the quality of room correction from vendor to vendor seems to matter.