08-Jun-2017, 13:15
I have used Room Correction via Umik1 + REW + JRiverPEQ for the past couple of years, and having made dozens of measurements with speakers in various places, the one thing I have found is that applying the calculated filters to precisely match the 'house curve' NEVER works out for me in the long run.
I find that the filter amplitudes have to be at least halved, and often reduced to a third. It's as if the ear objects more to large corrections than it does to the natural undulations imposed by a room, so I have to find that magic spot where the adjustments are just enough to satisfy. But once I have found that point, it certainly is hard to accept those extreme Room Modes any more.
For some reason, I also prefer simple PEQ over Convolution - the latter sounds too sterile, even when I've gone to the trouble of tailoring REW's filters before exporting the Convolved WAV file to JRiver. Perhaps I'm not sensitive to non-linear phase shifts.
(p.s. I have done this with both White Phantoms and with D120+PMC speakers, although my listening is now entirely dominated by the latter).
I find that the filter amplitudes have to be at least halved, and often reduced to a third. It's as if the ear objects more to large corrections than it does to the natural undulations imposed by a room, so I have to find that magic spot where the adjustments are just enough to satisfy. But once I have found that point, it certainly is hard to accept those extreme Room Modes any more.
For some reason, I also prefer simple PEQ over Convolution - the latter sounds too sterile, even when I've gone to the trouble of tailoring REW's filters before exporting the Convolved WAV file to JRiver. Perhaps I'm not sensitive to non-linear phase shifts.
(p.s. I have done this with both White Phantoms and with D120+PMC speakers, although my listening is now entirely dominated by the latter).
JRiver v25 (Windows) >> 220Pro/CI >> PMC Twenty5.23 + twin KEF KC62 subs. One White Phantom.