Acoustical Voodoo

[baconbrain]

I had exactly the same experience after the implementation of Dirac. First, there was a big relief that I got rid of my room modes. But when I switched Dirac off I realised that not only the "boooms" have vanished, but all bass is tighter and straiter forward now than without room correction, the overall SQ has improved as well. I do not want to (I can't!) listen to my music without room correction any more. BIG Problem: My vinyl collection, because the signal from my record player of course cannot be corrected by Dirac. Therefore I am considering to buy a Trinnov ST2, but would wait a while, maybe (sic!) Devialet will keep their promises and integrate RC into the experts. Because the Trinnov is not exactly cheap. But will Devialet RC (Roon RC would be worthless for me: vinyl) have the same quality as Dirac/Trinnov?

I would be very curious how your T+A G 2000 R goes together with the Trinnov ST2!

Ron,

The good news is that my 2000 R seems to profit from the Trinnov similiarly to my digital collection. I am consciously using the word similiar because prior to having the Trinnov, my analogue sources sounded distinctively different to the digital ones. This difference is now reduced considerably.

On the negative side, my impression is that it has also lost some of the "punch" that it had previously. This will definitely require more tweaking but given that the Trinnov has up to 29 programmable user profiles, I am quite confident that I will be able to customize enough to accommodate source, music genre,  daily mood   etc..