Sewing Room Setup

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The sewing room was my late wife's happy spot. It is now where the new Ultimea soundbar set up resides when its not in active duty at the trailer/cottage.

I decided to break out REW and run some measurements of the new soundbar and trying different locations for the sub. Guess what?? The sub location was changed.

The measurement setup

The sub location before the measurement. Located on the back wall right hand side of the bed.

New sub location is located on the front wall right (same wall as the soundbar) in the corner under the desk.

The results. I'm not sure if the new sub location (purple trace) is better than the original sub location (red trace) It has a smoother wider response between 20 and 55 Hz but drops off faster at 60 Hz.

 

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I took delivery of an Ultimea Skywave F30 Boom soundbar system for the bedroom setup in my travel trailer cottage to replace a Samsung soundbar system because the Samsung system sucked eggs basically. I managed to get the Samsung sounding ok but I was far from pleased.

I'm a curious bloke and I wanted to the see the difference in frequency response between the 2 Ultimea sound bar systems; the X50 and F30 Boom. This proved to be a greater challenge than I had thought because the F30 unit only had HDMI EARC which my laptop didn't recognize and therefore did not output the frequency sweeps through its HDMI port. So I improvised and maybe some of you experts can tell me if this work around would really affect what I measured. I connected the HDMI from the PC to the HDMI IN of the X50. The EARC of the X50 was already connected to the display. I connected optical out of the display to optical in of the F30 I made sure that the volume of the X50 was at zereo.

This is what the measurement set up look liked.

Please note that I adjusted the output volume of each soundbar during level check in REW to read -40db at the measured inputs. Maybe I should have snapped a pic of that.

Here are the results