Is DSP room correction worth it with a high end analog system?


This question was inspired by a YouTube from “2021 Capital Audio Fest: Jefferson Room”. Even though a lowly MP4, this is the best I have ever heard a drum solo!

The speakers are the Arion Apollo system. I question going through an ADA conversion coming from my quite high end analog front end with a tube preamp. The Apollo system uses a, said to be the best of its kind, Trinnov ST2 processor.

Certainly room correction seems very useful but is it worth going through a digital conversion?

mglik

Clearly everyone agrees DSP is the answer. Only by tearing the music apart, ripping it literally to bits, manipulating and altering and stitching it back together again, can we be true to the source. 

I apologize for my wrong  evaluation price post...

Anyway it is over my wallet possibilities ....

And anyway mechanical control cost nothing, is more fun, and completely satisfy me...

Trinnov unit is not cheap but it’s not $18K. It’s priced just under $7K. It included all crossover filters, analog-in, digital-in and analog-outputs.

"tearing the music apart, ripping it literally to bits, manipulating and altering and stitching it back together again"

I always wondered how digital stuff worked.

mahgister, I applaud your work. Passive room treatment is very important and can be fun to do (or frustrating). We have been involved in many room designs. Every room is different and presents its own challenges. We enjoy the challenges.

Digital and analog room correction systems are just another tool.

I have a fairly "purist" analog system from front end-tubes-tubes-tubes (SET) to horns. No X-0ver on mid horns, fed by Lamm ML2, along with woofers, not subs, run from an integrated plate amp.  I run a parallel system at 55hz down (24 db/oct. roll off above 55 hz) with DSP and a pair of 15 inch subs that have been dialed in for "modern" bass- deep, dimensional. They are as close in character as can be made possible but I still want to hear fully horn loaded bass, not the modern version. DSP helps without sonically interfering at the frequencies I’m dealing with (low, with fast roll-off).