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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First chance you get, go on-line, look up Fletcher-Munson curves. Then do a search for room reinforcement, nodes, frequency and speaker placement. If you're smart it should take like maybe an hour to understand that no matter how quiet you can get your room, the best you can hope for with DSP is to get it almost as good as you could do by ear. And then only at one volume level. Even then only in the one location. And only at the cost of making things worse everywhere else.

In other words DSP is a colossal waste of time and money.

That's the good news. The better news, hardly anyone bothers to do the reading and thinking to figure this out. There's more technically unsavvy audiophiles than you can shake a stick at. So there's a ready market and you will have no trouble selling your DSP to one of these rubes.