Experienced only: What have you done with room correction?


I like to sometimes ask questions just to learn how others have experienced a technology and this is one of those times.

I’m genuinely curious about who has applied automatic room correction, and what your experience was? Did it turn your Monitor Audios into Martin Logans? Your Martin Logans into Wilsons? 😀

Good and bad, but experienced only please!

For the record, I use it for HT now and I’m meh. I had much better luck with manually (with tools) adjusting my miniDSP.  Also, I'm absolutely not looking to buy anything, I just want to read about your experiences because it is fun.

erik_squires

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I've used a couple of versions of Anthem's ARC over a decade or so, with many loudspeakers. On general principles, I turn it on only if the positive effect on smoothing in-room frequency response seems "worth it" and the better the resolution of your system is, the easier it is to hear the software doing its thing.

Three observations:

1. After the measurements are made, I inspect the in-room response curves and apply RC only up to the lowest frequency at which it seems to be making a meaningful difference. Ideally, no higher than 500Hz, never more than 2000Hz.

2. Attempting to correct a dip in FR is much less likely to help the cause than a judicious trim to a peak.

3. The benefits for a multichannel system are especially evident.

4. Having capable DSP room correction won't eliminate the need for room treatment with physical measures in certain situations.