A Confused streaming system - Mutec / SOtM Ultra

[Confused]

One thing I did notice, is that with Beta 14 I seem to need a lot more gain.  I have not been paying much attention to volume levels recently but did today when doing a AIR versus SOtM / Mutec trial.  Volume levels (gain) seemed much higher than I have needed to use in the past.  For good order, I will note this in the 12.2.12 thread.  I might even try reverting back to Beta 12 to compare properly, but I am out of time today.

Hi Confused,
keep in mind that a room correction always needs some headroom for the correction, even if it does only decrease the level. For Thierries filters it will be the same, so maybe this is the reason you need higher volumes now. Dirac uses -6db by default, for mathaudio I needed 2.5db headroom to avoid clipping.

Yes indeed.  Thinking about it, I have been tweaking headroom and checking for clipping using the "Limited" count in HQPlayer, this started when I was running Beta 12.  It also occurs to me that I have seen the HQPlayer Limited count being triggered and the quick fix is to tweak the HQPlayer volume control down a touch.  Thierry had advised that using the HQPlayer volume control to avoid clipping is OK, but I can't help thinking that is best to set the correct headroom level in Roon DSP, so the convolution and headroom correction are both in the same place.  It should only be a five minute job to fine tune this, I will give it a try, it might even offer a small hike in SQ.