Hello, I’m going to possibly make a fool of myself and just ask this.
I don’t understand the purpose room treatment and all the REW processes if I can just use audyssey xt 32. I have little room treatment and after using xt 32 I get a fairly flat FR. I would really like to expand my knowledge and understand why people invest so much in room treatment. I feel like I’m missing an obvious answer.
Logan
There is a lot audyssey cannot fix.
Its better to not have a problem that needs fixing in the first place.
Anything audyssey(and other EQ) try and fix is at the expense more or less of other frequencies.
Room treatment(incl. furniture etc.) also makes a room more pleasant and easier to talk with ppl in.
Using REW and Umik measures your room as does Audyssey.
Audyssey tries to EQ the speakers to fit their "room curve" but may or my not yield good results in a terribly bright room, (tile, concrete, glass etc), or in a terribly "dull" room, (heavy drapes, wall to wall carpeting, upholstered furniture), etc.
REW+Umik results might have you moving the positions of speakers/subs to tame peaks or using a MiniDSP or similar.
Personally the only room treatments I use are rugs and tapestries as Audyssey in my main room did a good job for me and a MiniDSP EQ'd with the help of REW and Umik did in my secondary room where my receiver has no on board EQ.
Using REW and Umik measures your room as does Audyssey.
Audyssey tries to EQ the speakers to fit their "room curve" but may or my not yield good results in a terribly bright room, (tile, concrete, glass etc), or in a terribly "dull" room, (heavy drapes, wall to wall carpeting, upholstered furniture), etc.
REW+Umik results might have you moving the positions of speakers/subs to tame peaks or using a MiniDSP or similar.
Personally the only room treatments I use are rugs and tapestries as Audyssey in my main room did a good job for me and a MiniDSP EQ'd with the help of REW and Umik did in my secondary room where my receiver has no on board EQ.
Audyssey (etc), miniDSP, manual 1/3-Octave Band Equalizer can only adjust Gain vs Frequency Response, although DIRAC also adjusts Time Delay [and has a LOT more control over Sub-Woofer Freq Response]. So Audyssey (etc) can reduce the Primary and Secondary (at 2X Primary Freq) Room Resonances....and provide a bit of Boost on the NULL Freqs below, between and above those Freqs....but they usually can NOT "cure" a NULL completely....which is why 2+ Sub-Woofers are recommended to eliminate/minimize those Room Nulls.
BTW: Most Audyssey (etc) implementations, esp. from a few years ago, do NOT have a sufficient number of Filters [some only 1 or 2] available to adequately Equalize the Sub-Woofer Freqs (typ. you need 5 or more for 20-80 Hz)....so BASS TRAPS may be an essential PART of a solution to providing a truly FLAT Frequency Response from 20-80 Hz. Check your AVR's manual to see what are the Center Frequencies for Manual Setting of the Frequency Response.....which "should" tell you how many Filters are under Auto control by Audyssey.
Hello, I’m going to possibly make a fool of myself and just ask this.
I don’t understand the purpose room treatment and all the REW processes if I can just use audyssey xt 32.
Hello, I’m going to possibly make a fool of myself and just ask this.
I don’t understand the purpose room treatment and all the REW processes if I can just use audyssey xt 32.
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