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imral3's system progression - aka - new house, new listening room

highend64 said:
The null and peaks between 100 and 250 is probably due to room dimension which can be hard to tame.
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Yeah, I'm thinking the two dips between 100hz and 200hz are floor or ceiling bounce. If you look at them in relation to the overall response they really aren't that bad, though (IMHO).
 
More testing with speaker placement and toe-in. Speaker front baffle now centered on 1/4 line of both room width and length.
Today (red trace) vs yesterday (blue trace):
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Any thoughts or advice welcome.

Enjoy the musics!!
Ray
 
Another round with MSO trying to fine tune the subs.
Comparison of today (blue trace) vs yesterday (white trace):
010322 vs 010222 20-20k.jpg
Might be hard to see the blue trace but, bass extension down to 20hz is much better.

Of course there will be more to come, as I learn even more about REW, MSO and what the hell I'm doing in the first place. Lol!

Enjoy the musics!!
Ray
 
A new day, some new speaker placements, a new measurement (or 27).
Today's room measurement, from 20 to 20k, showing no smoothing, 1/6th smoothing, variable smoothing and psychoacoustic smoothing overlays.
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Moved chair up almost 2 feet, 23.5" to be exact. Very nearfield-ish indeed. More toe-in of speakers to go along with the new chair position.
Today (green) vs yesterday (red):
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Gonna see if I like sitting this close. Definitely a different sound. Need more ears-on time. :p
 
Change of seating position called for new REW sub measurements to send through MSO's optimagical process.
Today (green) vs yesterday (orange):
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Hopefully soon I can get room treatment to tame the upper bass/lower mid hump.
Looking and sounding pretty good for now though, IMHO.

Enjoy the musics!!
Ray
 
highend64 said:
Hi, what are you trying to accomplish? Does it sound better every new test?
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Looking for as flat of frequency response as I can get. This through many, many REW measurements every time I reposition the speakers and/or seating position. And then run the new sub measurements through MSO after each seating position change.
I am working with what I already have to get the best sound possible in my minimally treated room. Also learning how to use REW and MSO along the way.

IMHO, with the low budget gear I have, and its meticulous, measured setup, it is sounding pretty damn amazing.

Enjoy the musics!!
Ray
 
I put my FX-Audio Tube-01 back into the system. Made a few level and x-over changes for subs as well.
Today 2/1 (green) vs 1/27 (blue) measurements:
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imral3 said:
My odd collection of cheap, little gadgetry:
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I just got that same little tube buffer for my living room rig where I have Monolith 788 DAC/PEQ, Musical Fidelity M2si and JBL 590's. I only tried it briefly to confirm that it works (got it off of BT), then took it out to finish tweaking the PEQ. Haven't yet put it back in, but the system was sure sounding mighty fine when it was in there.
 
tomlinmgt said:
I just got that same little tube buffer for my living room rig where I have Monolith 788 DAC/PEQ, Musical Fidelity M2si and JBL 590's. I only tried it briefly to confirm that it works (got it off of BT), then took it out to finish tweaking the PEQ. Haven't yet put it back in, but the system was sure sounding mighty fine when it was in there.
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Yeah man, it sounds pretty good. But, it does add some background noise, even with 12db inline attenuators, to my system.
 
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Alright, pulled the FX audio and Nobsound boxes out because the Schiit Saga+ has arrived!
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Oh so much quieter, than the FX audio/Nobsound pair, when sitting at idle.
Now for some REW measurements to make sure things are as they are supposed to be.
TTYL.
 
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