Room correction with Phantom

[Snoopy8]

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.

Putting L & R to separate digital outputs complicates things. I understand the intention is to get rid of the Dialog, but with upcoming DOS2, it is no longer required. So should be able to feed single digital output to one of the Phantoms.

Agree miniDSP SHD & SHD Studio with Dirac Live are good options but there are other hardware based room correction options. For example, Dspeaker Anti-Mode X4, DEQX Premate.

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.

Not holding my breath for RAAT on Phantoms and not convinced it will be here soon.  If it is anything like the Expert Pro RAAT release, it will be a bumpy ride for questionable gains.

By the way, can use Roon & its DSP today with a Roon End point streamer that has optical output to the Phantoms.

Roon convolution requires a heavy duty processor. I am using MinimServer convolution filtering to do room correction for the Phantoms and it uses less than 20% of load of same processor with the same impulse.