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Room correction in noisy environment (ARC, Dirac, Minidsp, REW)

I live around downtown Dallas in an apartment where there's a considerable amount of traffic and people noise (thanks Katy Trail Ice House).  I find it very difficult to find the "quietest" time to run my ARC correction.  Will this background noise dramatically affect the outcome? Is it even worth trying?
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erik_squires
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I think room acoustics and correction are always possible improvements, especially if you can keep the DSP out of the main speaker loop.

You can really make smaller speakers sound a lot bigger and fuller this way, and I don't mean by adding bass, but by smoothing it out.

Proper room acoustics OFTEN make small speakers sound bigger.
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