The major issues are always lower bass related, ‘usually’ the mids and treble take care of themselves , the ideal would be a ‘perfect’ room, low bass is really difficult to treat passively, a little EQ can bring huge gains.Keith, you always recommend just fixing the bottom end. This is where you say the major room issues are. I do understand this, but why not fix everything, there may be crossover point or a slight driver mismatch further up, why not fix that too?
Surely if you just correct the bottom, the software just multiplies the rest (above the bottom) with zeros so all the frequencies are manipulated anyway.
Lately I'm convinced DSP flattens the sound, I.e., takes some of the life out of it.
Your comments would be appreciated.
The reason I say 'sinister' is because once it calculates the filter it shows a really nice correction curve that always impresses me. But I harbour a doubt that if I could measure it, it wouldn't look any way near as good as it says it is.
Well I cannot be definitive here as we only have two boxes, but both seem to use ASRC and process at a fixed 96KHz irrespective of input sampling rate. Even at 96KHz input I suspect the ASRC is being used (I could be wrong).
I had a M dac many years ago .. seems a helluva lot of bumps in the road to get to a finished product .
I run a trinnov st2 , a minidsp DDRC 22D (dirac) and direct feed to my Devialet amps and can switch between any of them by merely changing sources , the minidsp in bypass and the trinnov in bypass sound exactly the same as the direct digital feed. , albeit it must be said I really only used the digital i/o and never do any AD conversion
I suggest you read Floyd Toole's book. EQ only works effectively on the bottom end and is likely to degrade SQ if applied to higher frequencies.Keith, you always recommend just fixing the bottom end. This is where you say the major room issues are. I do understand this, but why not fix everything, there may be crossover point or a slight driver mismatch further up, why not fix that too?
Surely if you just correct the bottom, the software just multiplies the rest (above the bottom) with zeros so all the frequencies are manipulated anyway.
Lately I'm convinced DSP flattens the sound, I.e., takes some of the life out of it.
Your comments would be appreciated.
I think I've seen a talk by him on YouTube, I shall have another look. But wow! , my findings are similar to the great man....not to mention Keith. Thanks for the recommendation.I suggest you read Floyd Toole's book. EQ only works effectively on the bottom end and is likely to degrade SQ if applied to higher frequencies.
Have you looked at Roon? It has DSP functionality and can up-sample to any frequency, but unfortunately you cannot use Dirac to generate the filters think most use REW which has a steep learning curve IMHO.That's interesting. With Dirac (software on PC) I have filters at 16/44 and 24/?(96 maybe)....I wonder if then you should only play those files on that filter, otherwise it gets up/down sampled??? What a palava, I just like to play tracks and I have a big mixture of sampling rates on both mp3 and flacs....no wonder it sounds better without DSP.
Have you looked at Roon? It has DSP functionality and can up-sample to any frequency, but unfortunately you cannot use Dirac to generate the filters think most use REW which has a steep learning curve IMHO.
Is it weird that I read every post on this thread but don’t have an MDAC or any investment in MDAC2/FDAC/detox etc?
Yes, you are.Is it weird that I read every post on this thread but don’t have an MDAC or any investment in MDAC2/FDAC/detox etc?
Is it weird that I read every post on this thread but don’t have an MDAC or any investment in MDAC2/FDAC/detox etc?