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Behringer DEQ2496 HELP

After reading the raves about this product, I finally bought one along with the matching microphone tonite. Put in my system, eager to try room correction. The first 2 attmepts produced some curves that I wasn't crazy about, but seemed plausioble. Now, all it does is push all the bands above 125 all the way to maximum boost, and all the bands below 125 to maximum cut. When displaying the RTA of the pink noise, there is nop more htan a 15 dB range between the highest and lowest levels on the curve (as if that were small!)Also, one of the primary reasons I bought it was for equalizing low frequency room problems, yet it suggests htat anyuthing below 100Hz not be included in the auto EQ.
Does anyone know why it is coming up with such odd equalization curves, even though it is reading the data, which doesn't look so bad? Also, how bad is the product at low frequencies?
honest1
streetdaddy
349 posts
 
Ok, i think i did the auto eq correctly. I also hit the room correction button. When i toggle between the bypass and eq'd, the eq'd version sounds very muffled. Any suggestions?
ecruz
402 posts
 
It's the opposite for me. When I hit bypass it sounds muffled.
racarlson
68 posts
 
On initial comparison, whichever has less upper midrange/treble (bypass or eq)is likely to sound muffled. Let your ears adapt before you pass judgment. If after listening for a while, it still sounds muffled, try one (or both) of two things: (a) whatever cuts the auto-eq made above, say 2kHz, reduce those cuts by half (e.g., if it is -6 dB, manually adjust to -3 dB), or (b) use one of the parametric bands as a treble control by setting it to H 6dB with a frequency of 2 or 3 kHz; boost by a dB or two. Also, make sure that you're not being misled by an overall level difference - try turning up the volume on the setting that sounds muffled.
ecruz
402 posts
 
I've been very happy with my DEQ, but after having such outstanding results getting my Sony 900 modded by TRL, I wanted to see if they could mod my Behringer DEQ.

Long story short, I exchanged a few emails with Brian at TRL, he told me that they have tried, but are unable to get any significant improvements out of this machine. He said they worked on one for two full days and ended up sending it back to the guy, along with the his money.

I think that says a lot for the Behringer. They are getting huge improvements out of very expensive cd players, DACs, etc but can't squeeze anything more out of this $300 EQ/DAC.

eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Ecruz...Possible explanation ...

1.. The analog circuitry is just input and output unity gain buffers. These are easy to implement with near zero distortion.

2.. The D/A and A/D modules are about as good as they come.

3.. The heart of the unit is its digital processing which can't be tweeked by hardware mods.
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