Experienced only: What have you done with room correction?


I like to sometimes ask questions just to learn how others have experienced a technology and this is one of those times.

I’m genuinely curious about who has applied automatic room correction, and what your experience was? Did it turn your Monitor Audios into Martin Logans? Your Martin Logans into Wilsons? 😀

Good and bad, but experienced only please!

For the record, I use it for HT now and I’m meh. I had much better luck with manually (with tools) adjusting my miniDSP.  Also, I'm absolutely not looking to buy anything, I just want to read about your experiences because it is fun.

erik_squires

I've been using a Velodyne SMS-1 with a pair of HGS-15s to augment KEF Reference 1s with excellent result.  I'm going to try a second SMS-1 in a stereo configuration in which L & R from the Ayre preamp will pass to separate SMS-1s.  RS-232 will connect the SMS-1s so only one needs to be addressed for settings to be applied to both.

I've been using Anthems ARC for several years (as a dealer and consumer) and as long as you have the expectation that its not a cure all to the system it is a great tool to use. Getting into the advanced adjustments allows for fine tuning to my ear on my system. I also use REW to measure the before to see what the in room response is. 

I've used 3 different REQ solutions in my A/V systems:  Dirac Live, Audyssey MultEQ XT32, and ARC Genesis. I consider them all effective, to varying degrees, with respect to reducing room colorations and providing a more convincing audio experience, at least to my ear.

However, REQ is intended to remediate only room anomalies. It is not a panacea for speaker or source aberrations. And I've always found further improvements to the sound are possible via manual adjustment downstream. YMMV

For somebody who does without even tone control, obviously automatic room correction is out of my league. Went with building a dedicated listening house instead.