Recent content by Viabcroce

Except for the USB driver, for sure. And anyway the computer's USB card will play its role, with its amount of jitter, nose, mains distortion etc. I agree, hard to generalise. They might have got different specs (jitter, noise and the like) in a given implementation tho and, generally...

If you really succeeded in linearising the room's response for your hearing profile it would IMO give you a much better sound: I strongly doubt that a hearing aid system, as good and expensive as it can be, can be as audiophile as a 40k audio system. The ones I've seen around can sound at most...

A better DAC is not only a more extended freq response, so it might always be worth updating specially if you find one that best complements your current system/room. Having said this, frequencies are not only perceived with ears. When it comes to high and very high ones a number of structures...

Thanks for chiming in skid :) I've actually already started: I have taken several measurements all around the room and the ones I've uploaded are the best ones. I was just asking for opinions about which one would perspectively offer the best results once I'd run ARC; IOW, which one seems...

Thanks for chiming in :) I thought that in view of a DRC finer details were not critical, and just the main dips and peaks mattered? Would you say otherwise?

No-one willing to tell me what they think?

Hello, I own an Anthem STR with DRC capacity. I've just received my new sub (2.1, music only), and before re-running ARC I moved the sub around (part of) the room and checked results in REW. As a side note, I used the method of sending a pink signal window (10-300 Hz) to the sub and using the...

Hey witwald, mine was just an example, and did not want to be a technical indication :) I just wanted to show that by not cutting the main audio speakers we miss one of the most important musical benefits of a sub. Generally speaking, I can hardly think of a universal rule. Most recordings are...

I did not see this addressed, apologise if it was. Extending the frequency response of an audio system is only one of the reasons why one or more subwoofers can improve your overall tone. When the main speakers are properly high-passed so to cut their lowest 1/1.5 octave (say for example @ 120...

No doubt sounds we hear changes according to thousands of factors, ad no doubt we can enjoy even classical music on a pocket radio. But this is not the point: hi-fi is about detection of issues and their solutions, and there's a setting/setpu at which your system sound closest to what was...

Ah sorry, I had misread your comment :) Yep, that makes sense. I'll be curious to compare the panel's absorption range/window with the distibution of the new nulls.

Yep, I get that. But how can adding a panel generate tens of new cancellations all over the spectrum? By reducing the amount of energy\frequencies going around, destructive interactions should be reduced. I can understand that a solid frame can become a source for new reflections (25 dB tho?!)...

Thanks guys for responding :) This is interesting. Actually, what you specified is correct to the letter: in fact, if I use a mic that REW doesn't detect, multiple sweeps are allowed. This is for example the case with an ARC mic which doesn't request a cal file: REW doesn't signal it has found...

Dear all, first post here. I've recently started to use REW in order to properly set my hi-fi room. I have been using it (latest Release version) in conjunction with a Umik-1 on an Asus PC 1101HA notebook (internal soundcard) running W7. My audio system is based on an Anthem STR and a pair of...