I've used REW and miniDSP in my mobile audio setup for years and am very happy/blown away by the improvement in car audio. I am finally getting around to working on my home theater setup due to a failed pre-HDMI era Onkyo amp receiver, my wife winning a 65" TV at a drawing at work, and some house upgrades. Nothing real fancy here. I have Polk Monitor 70's, 50's and 40's and CS1 center for speakers supported by a PSW10 sub in a 13'x15' room. I have stereo equipment, and HTPC. Music quality is more important than home theater. I would like to use a miniDSP to employ sub integration crossover, PEQ and DIRAC for my 2.1 listening pleasure. Not so worried about HTPC and might go 5.1 to save space. Figuring out a configuration is a challenge. I like how my stereo sounds with a miniDSP2x4 integrating sub with a crossover quite low just to supplement the 70's (which reach to 40Hz nicely), and applying corrections. Currently I can go through my old receiver's multichannel input. Looking at new AVR's, I have to spend a fortune to get multichannel. So one answer is to use miniDSP2x4HD or DDRC-24 to apply corrections to my 2.1 material by running through the 2-channel in of a new receiver via the Aux or CD input, but I lose sub integration and have to go with the built in sub or AVR crossovers. I guess I can still apply filters to the sub signal but it seems messy and risky. Anyone experienced in using/testing these two solutions? I'd like to know how well sub EQ works when relying on built in crossovers in the sub or AVR versus miniDSP. Thanks for any advice, including that I am doing this all wrong.
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