17-Oct-2019, 10:10
It seems there is finally a solution for full range room correction on Phantoms.
The MiniDSP SHD (and SHD Studio which is digital only) has Dirac room correction built-in. By routing L and R to separate SPDIF outputs on the SHD (L to SPDIF1 = OUT1&2, R to SPDIF2 = OUT3&4), then using two iFi SPDIF iPurifiers for conversion to optical (and reclocking) and sending each channel to a Phantom you'd be good to go.
This should be interesting for Dirac fans. As a bonus The SHD now supports Roon streaming to it's ethernet port (24bit) so a setup like this will give you both Roon and Dirac without Dialog and Spark.
Roumors say that Phantoms will be Roon ready 'soon', but we all know about promises from Devialet. Roon ready Phantoms will of course have room correction via Roon's DSP (and all the other nice things Roon gives), but not Dirac. A Dirac correction can only be processed by Dirac itself and can not be used in normal convolution (not entirely true as it is techically possible to send an impulse through Dirac, record the output and use this for convolution in Roon. Very few has the knowledge to do this).
I must say that I have not tried this as I don't have Phantoms. The SHD units also have AES/EBU outputs so can of course be used with Experts or indeed Dutch&Dutch or Kii.
The MiniDSP SHD (and SHD Studio which is digital only) has Dirac room correction built-in. By routing L and R to separate SPDIF outputs on the SHD (L to SPDIF1 = OUT1&2, R to SPDIF2 = OUT3&4), then using two iFi SPDIF iPurifiers for conversion to optical (and reclocking) and sending each channel to a Phantom you'd be good to go.
This should be interesting for Dirac fans. As a bonus The SHD now supports Roon streaming to it's ethernet port (24bit) so a setup like this will give you both Roon and Dirac without Dialog and Spark.
Roumors say that Phantoms will be Roon ready 'soon', but we all know about promises from Devialet. Roon ready Phantoms will of course have room correction via Roon's DSP (and all the other nice things Roon gives), but not Dirac. A Dirac correction can only be processed by Dirac itself and can not be used in normal convolution (not entirely true as it is techically possible to send an impulse through Dirac, record the output and use this for convolution in Roon. Very few has the knowledge to do this).
I must say that I have not tried this as I don't have Phantoms. The SHD units also have AES/EBU outputs so can of course be used with Experts or indeed Dutch&Dutch or Kii.
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Devialetless!
Roon, ROCK/Audiolense XO/Music on NAS/EtherRegen/RoPieee/USPCB/ISORegen/USPCB/Sound Devices USBPre2/Tannoy GOLD 8
250 Pro CI, MicroRendu(1.4), Mutec MC-3+USB
Devialetless!
Roon, ROCK/Audiolense XO/Music on NAS/EtherRegen/RoPieee/USPCB/ISORegen/USPCB/Sound Devices USBPre2/Tannoy GOLD 8
250 Pro CI, MicroRendu(1.4), Mutec MC-3+USB
