Seriosha
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- DIY Headphone Amp
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- DIY based on Focal 165K2
Hey folks!
After some adventurous Setups to keep the show going, i am now at a point where i would like to do this right-ish.
The Setup is the following: Two Bookshelf DIY Speakers with Focal Factory Crossovers on my Desk with Focal 165K2 6", plus Tweeters (Tweeters are at -6dB via Speaker integrated Crossover since those are notoriously aggressive, could change that though).
The room is not big, about 12m² / 129ft² with Slopes and quite some stuff in it (Student Room). - So basically there is no room for placement shenanigans unfortunately!
Those Speakers seem pretty directional to me, so i pointed them at my head as best as i could, my Ears are still not perfectly in line.
Sub is a 12 " Klipsch R-120SW
Using a miniDSP 2x4 HD which goes into a Dynacord PCA 2250 Amp for the Speakers (Oldschool and PA, i know
)
Topology in short: The height difference to my Ears is as follows:
Mainspeaker Driver 44cm / 17.3 inch
Tweeter : 26cm / 10.2 inch
Distance from Speakers to the respective Ear (L/R) is 90cm / 35.4 inch just in distance to Speakers front plane, no diagonals taken.
Subwoofer is left of me below the Desk in a Corner, twice Reflex-Pipe Diameter from the Wall away (Front Speaker, back Pipe) middle of Membrane to middle of my Chest about 136cm / 53.5 inch, not Pointing at me though.
Measured with a UMIK-1, 90° cal file, set as best as i could in the position i am mostly in.
The Levels are Matched at 75 dB C with Pink Noise at the Listening position for all for the Measuring. All Speakers running at once yields a bit higher dB as expected.
For those First Measurements, i used no X-Over or other EQ Settings except to match Level in the DSP, Sub Low-Pass on Max (LFE) Setting.
What am i looking for: Ideas to Setup Crossovers and basically: Where the do i start to turn this into the best i can get out of that Setup =)
Please no comments about that this or that component is trash and that i should change it, it is what it is, and i have to deal with it
Also using a Topping D50s DAC for my DIY Headphone Amp which i could finally dedicate to just this after the miniDSP arrived (no more Y-Cable Chaos
)
I think it is the easiest to just add the measuremtnes i guess? I've labeled them and have no idea how this works, but if someone is willing to help, i am sure we can figure this out!
I already did measuremtns, EQ and some stuff on my own before, but honestly, it usually sounded worse than just leaving everything alone.
Thanks guys!
Psycho Acoustic smoothing applied:
After some adventurous Setups to keep the show going, i am now at a point where i would like to do this right-ish.
The Setup is the following: Two Bookshelf DIY Speakers with Focal Factory Crossovers on my Desk with Focal 165K2 6", plus Tweeters (Tweeters are at -6dB via Speaker integrated Crossover since those are notoriously aggressive, could change that though).
The room is not big, about 12m² / 129ft² with Slopes and quite some stuff in it (Student Room). - So basically there is no room for placement shenanigans unfortunately!
Those Speakers seem pretty directional to me, so i pointed them at my head as best as i could, my Ears are still not perfectly in line.
Sub is a 12 " Klipsch R-120SW
Using a miniDSP 2x4 HD which goes into a Dynacord PCA 2250 Amp for the Speakers (Oldschool and PA, i know

Topology in short: The height difference to my Ears is as follows:
Mainspeaker Driver 44cm / 17.3 inch
Tweeter : 26cm / 10.2 inch
Distance from Speakers to the respective Ear (L/R) is 90cm / 35.4 inch just in distance to Speakers front plane, no diagonals taken.
Subwoofer is left of me below the Desk in a Corner, twice Reflex-Pipe Diameter from the Wall away (Front Speaker, back Pipe) middle of Membrane to middle of my Chest about 136cm / 53.5 inch, not Pointing at me though.
Measured with a UMIK-1, 90° cal file, set as best as i could in the position i am mostly in.
The Levels are Matched at 75 dB C with Pink Noise at the Listening position for all for the Measuring. All Speakers running at once yields a bit higher dB as expected.
For those First Measurements, i used no X-Over or other EQ Settings except to match Level in the DSP, Sub Low-Pass on Max (LFE) Setting.
What am i looking for: Ideas to Setup Crossovers and basically: Where the do i start to turn this into the best i can get out of that Setup =)
Please no comments about that this or that component is trash and that i should change it, it is what it is, and i have to deal with it

Also using a Topping D50s DAC for my DIY Headphone Amp which i could finally dedicate to just this after the miniDSP arrived (no more Y-Cable Chaos

I think it is the easiest to just add the measuremtnes i guess? I've labeled them and have no idea how this works, but if someone is willing to help, i am sure we can figure this out!
I already did measuremtns, EQ and some stuff on my own before, but honestly, it usually sounded worse than just leaving everything alone.
Thanks guys!
Psycho Acoustic smoothing applied: