mapman

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***Seasons Greetings A'goners***Are You Getting Any New Gear For Christmas***
I bought a miniDSP microphone to do room corrections in Roon. 2 rooms down 3 to go. New gear can’t really fix issues related to room acoustics.  
Equalizer in a Hi Fi system
Room Response   This example shows my family room response curve that represents the room’s acoustics. Every room is different in this regard. You can see peaks and dips at specific frequencies. To correct those, an equalizer has to be able to t... 
Where does music come from that streams?
It doesn’t matter to me.   I can listen to almost anything and it all sounds just fine or better.    
Room Correction Required
Do you have Roon? You can do room correction with Roon  by just acquiring a microphone to measure and using Room Eq Wizard freeware. I just did it with one of my rooms with excellent results. One room down, 3 to go.  
Equalizer in a Hi Fi system
Absolutely yes to using equalization for room correction but in this day and age DSP is the most powerful tool to do this best, not analog eq technology that was the best one could do practically say 10-20 years ago or so.   If you have a good qu... 
Tune of the Day
Suppers Ready (Instrumental)   Found this on Qobuz.  Outstanding performance and recording!  
How Much Do tonal colorations matter?
@mahgister if you ever want to try and see there is a download available for those headphones along with many others available here: AutoEQ Web | Results | Recommended (killdozer.uk)  Note that the always appropriate YMMV disclaimer is nicely appl... 
How Much Do tonal colorations matter?
I think convolution filters are perhaps best used with headphones than anywhere else. Easier perhaps because you can use filters already created for most headphone models but equally applicable for room correction and other primarily audio prod... 
"Squaring The Circle"...Hipgnosis Documentary on Netflix
Interesting.  I will check it out. Thanks.   
What news in 2023 struck you?
I was very sad to learn Ohm Acoustic’s John Strohbeen had passed.   
10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world.
That’s way too complicated. Just do it!  
Equalizer in a Hi Fi system
Traditional analog equalization is somewhat dated and very limited 20th century technology. 😉   But, I will be attempting Room correction using Roon DSP shortly. Will be using Room EQ Wizard software to create convolution filters for several roo... 
Are you on or off? What say you?
No merry go round.  Most changes I make these days are exploring new frontiers.   
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR?
If you take the more esoteric high end tweaks out of the picture, high end audio is really not any more controversial than owning luxury cars.  
Integrated amplifier for Fritz Speakers
Amp 1 I have heard. Amp 2 is probably a decent option as well. Both very nice and very affordable to try. You might check with Fritz about that specific model but the special thing about Fritz speakers is their crossover design that provides a ver...