Recent content by Wayne A. Pflughaupt

Why not just get a miniDSP UMIK-1? Much cheaper than the Presonus and it comes with a calibration file. Regards, Wayne

Judging from your mains-only measurement, it appears you’ll have to limit subwoofer EQ to 40 Hz and below. From the readings in your Post #4 file, #3 looks good, with perhaps turning the sub down a bit. Alternately, #9, 10, and 11 look identical for all practical purposes (meaning, you’re not...

Yes, I understood the problem from what you described in your first post. Give us a full-range measurement of each of your main speakers separately. I'll take a look and see if I can give you an idea of where they roll out. Regards, Wayne

The best way to keep subs from interfering with the main speakers is to high pass the latter, thereby allowing the subwoofer to handle the bass range alone. Lacking that, your best bet would be to run REW on your Harbeths to determine where they roll off at the low end. Then, either low pass...

The room diagram certainly helps. A big part of the problem is that your listening position is in the dead-center of the room. The center of any square or shoe-box room is essentially a “bass hole” that exhibits the weakest perceived bass. Move from that position towards any boundary, and...

First, welcome to the Forum! I don’t see how this idea would work. Assuming the AVR’s HDMI output would include the room correction, it would only work with signals coming from the AVR. IOW, signal sources would have to be plugged into the AVR. Your soundbar is getting its signal from the...

Well, the name is “Room” EQ Wizard. 1kHz is beyond the range where “room“ affects (i.e. modes and such – John, correct me if I’m wrong), so that might be why you’re not having any luck up there. For starters, your upper-range graphs probably should be single-speaker, not both. But, based on...

Make sure the calibration file and mic orientation are the same – 0-degree file for aimed-at-speaker measurement, or 90-degree for upright mic orientation. Regards, Wayne

The dead center of any square or rectangular room is going to be a "bass hole," so to speak. I.e., the perceived bass level is lowest there, and increases as you move from that point towards any boundary. Not necessarily a problem, except that it'll require more subwoofer output than would be...

IMO you should wait and see if there’s a problem. The presence of continual moisture will cause mold to grow on the drywall, despite the type of studs used. I’d suggest buying a sheet of drywall and either attach it to the basement wall in question, or otherwise make sure it’s flush against...

I’m concerned about the tremendous difference between the two speakers above 400 Hz. Are they defective, or do you have one located against a corner vs. the other out in the middle of the room or something? Regards, Wayne

I’m certainly not up on all the wonderful functions the newest versions of REW offers, but it seems to me a simple listening test can get results faster than you can set up REW to operate. A spoken word recording played through a speaker at low volume will reveal a damaged woofer voice coil...

They look fine. Keep in mind that waterfall graphs are mainly only useful below ~200 Hz (John, correct me of that's not the right number). And, few rooms have noise floors lower than 45-50 dB. The solid green sections at the bottom of the waterfall graphs is room background noise. Regards...

The TV’s manual says it won’t allow use of a Bluetooth device and the surround speakers at the same time. If the TV has a digital optical output, you can connect it to the Avantree transmitter. That should permit using the headphones via the Avantree while allowing the TV to do surround...

I remember blu-ray computer drives to briefly be a “thing” after the format hit the home theater market, but like Travis I don’t recall ever seeing a component recorder. However, a search shows there were professional models from companies like TASCAM and JVC. Sony introduced a few consumer...