Home Theater Advice on Microphones and Dirac Live

[Burakbekar]

Hi,
I’m about to finish my home theater room and I’m currently working on calibration.

My setup is as follows;

• Sony VPL-XW5000ES
• Lexicon RV-9
• Lexicon LX-7

I connected both my RV-9 and my computer to the same network, and Dirac Live successfully detects the amplifier. However, I don’t have the original Lexicon microphone calibration file. It appears that Lexicon has removed the RV-9 from their website. I have already contacted Lexicon via email to request the RV-9 firmware and the microphone calibration file, but I haven’t received a response yet.

In this situation, would it be better to purchase a new measurement microphone such as the miniDSP UMIK-1, since its calibration file is easily available?

Additionally, I’m still getting familiar with Dirac Live calibration. In many YouTube tutorials, there is a red indicator bar in the microphone gain section. In the newer versions of Dirac Live, this indicator no longer appears, so I’m unsure what microphone gain level I should be using.

I would appreciate any advice or recommendations.

 

[Todd Anderson]

If they don’t respond with a calibration file, I’d definitely purchase a new UMIK-1.

How old is your Lexicon? Might be time to replace anyway ;-)


As for Dirac, I haven’t played around with the latest version. Hopefully @Flak or @Sonnie Parker will have a quick answer for you.

I’m curious to learn more about your room!!