Re the OP’s scanario:
"Tryin’ to get high, without having to pay..." -Marianne Faithfull
Room correction is not a fix, the effect of the room problems still exist and would still be interfering. It’s like a continual hasty pasting over of an ongoing audio murder.
Room correction can be done judiciously, minimally...and then one has to figure out if the given minimal corrections are worth the problem of interference in signal purity that is brought about via the installation and use of the hardware the creates the corrections.
Then to understand such under the given signal disturbances and coloration that is carried out by the choices in the rest of the gear that is in the room.
physical acoustic correction via physically correcting the room is the best bet, every time and likely always will be. It is just the nature of how acoustics and audio works... that makes active correction suitable for non fidelity situations like concerts, malls, airports, bars, commercial theaters, etc...places where fidelity is not the primary concern.
If DSP was the fix that it is advertised to be by some, then it would have taken over the high fidelity world by storm.
Even though it has been around for quite some time, note that it has not taken over.
Thus, thinking cap..a bit of funds...some work..and fix acoustics.
IF this cannot be done, then the room must be accepted as it is, or try some minimal DSP correction, with the caveat that the carrier of the DSP, the digital systems involved - are destructive to overall fidelity.
One can fix some of the annoying bits with the DSP and then find themselves listening less and less to music in that space, as the positives are outweighed by the negatives of the digital manipulation. Negatives that take time to consciously discern and put label to.
"Tryin’ to get high, without having to pay..." -Marianne Faithfull
Room correction is not a fix, the effect of the room problems still exist and would still be interfering. It’s like a continual hasty pasting over of an ongoing audio murder.
Room correction can be done judiciously, minimally...and then one has to figure out if the given minimal corrections are worth the problem of interference in signal purity that is brought about via the installation and use of the hardware the creates the corrections.
Then to understand such under the given signal disturbances and coloration that is carried out by the choices in the rest of the gear that is in the room.
physical acoustic correction via physically correcting the room is the best bet, every time and likely always will be. It is just the nature of how acoustics and audio works... that makes active correction suitable for non fidelity situations like concerts, malls, airports, bars, commercial theaters, etc...places where fidelity is not the primary concern.
If DSP was the fix that it is advertised to be by some, then it would have taken over the high fidelity world by storm.
Even though it has been around for quite some time, note that it has not taken over.
Thus, thinking cap..a bit of funds...some work..and fix acoustics.
IF this cannot be done, then the room must be accepted as it is, or try some minimal DSP correction, with the caveat that the carrier of the DSP, the digital systems involved - are destructive to overall fidelity.
One can fix some of the annoying bits with the DSP and then find themselves listening less and less to music in that space, as the positives are outweighed by the negatives of the digital manipulation. Negatives that take time to consciously discern and put label to.