Dirac and room correction software

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I had a play with the Dirac Suite (using the MiniDSP UMIK-1) a while back, and put some results in the thread on the wam. I can re-post my findings - including graphs, etc. - here, if they would be of interest.

In a nutshell: the software seems easy to use once you get the hang of it, and the way the filters can be dynamically plugged into the playback chain is pretty neat. I found out some interesting things about my room and set-up, and the filters certainly tidied up the bass behaviour, but I didn't have any jaw-dropping experiences. Maybe my room wasn't particularly badly-behaved to start with.

For me, one of the main disadvantages was the fact that I could only use the filters when playing music via my Mac, which isn't my main source. Another was that - at least with the version of software I tried - you couldn't use Dirac to measure the corrected response of the room, i.e. with the filter in place. I ended up getting a trial of FuzzMeasure to do just that, which seemed a bit perverse.

I haven't gone so far as to buy the Dirac Suite, but that partly because there's still some uncertainty about whether or not Devialet will put room correction into the amplifier itself.

Hope that's helpful...

Ian