I am using 3 different DSP technologies and they all improved the sound in the rooms in which they are used. I use: whatever Emotiva offers in the MC 700, whatever Integra offers in its receivers, and whatever DSpeaker (model 2 or some such) uses. I don't care what they call these methods, I only care that they work - and they do. I notice someone suggested that you throw your equipment away because they don't work. This is certainly unhelpful, not to mention arrogant and disrespectful. Disregard such nonsense, please, and continue your quest for good sound in your home. It does make a great deal of difference where the microphone is placed during the testing phase of the procedure. I always place it on a pillow (because my clothing absorbs sound - we are trying to simulate a listener's head) and prop it up on cardboard boxes so that is "head high." If you placed the microphone on an 18 inch squarr marble slab on the seat you usually occupy, the results would be very different. Emotiva's fanciest system, which I help a friend to install, has a very detailed (and lengthy) setup involving multiple mike placements which produced a really remarkable (if I were a less reserved person, I would say "spectacular!") improvement in a loft usig Magnepan 1.7i speakers and a single subwoofer. Happy listening.
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.