Room correction with D400 and B&W 800D

[Soniclife]

In my opinion (and as a bass player), the audible effect to music is that with SAM@100% - bass guitar sounds fuller, but somewhat un-naturally forward in the mix. With SAM@0% bass sounds better - tight, distinct but not over represented in the mix and better than SAM switched off.

I'm also fascinated by the smallish measured changes in my system as I change SAM, but the huge subjective impressions.

I'm leaning to not 100% trust in room measurements, I think the brain fixes a lot of the big errors more than we might expect, it knows we are listening indoors and corrects. Big room nodes do need fixing though.

Try dialling SAM down to and listen, if still too much lower it again. I'm at 10% with stand mounts, that now sound full range up to a certain volume.