I have built an Elekit Tu-8600s and use it to drive a pair of Heresy IV. My setup is in my home office which has some furniture and is open on the far side (away from the speakers) towards the rest of the house. I listen on the chaise in the middle of the room so I used a UMIK pointed vertically to measure the room and got this curve:
Then had the House Curve iOS app build a 20 eq curve shown below:
The speakers are under the windows, about 4-6 " from the wall, angled towards the listener.
Then I uploaded the correction PEQ into Volumio with FusionDSP. The correction quiets down the sound and it feels less harsh but I wonder if I just hear what I wish to hear. I tried using REW on my laptop but frankly found it quite complicated; still managed to build a curve but cannot hear a difference between it and the automatic curve created by the iPhone app.
What does a "good" curve look like and is there any value in pushing this further? I am a satisficer and would be happy to call it good unless some easy additional optimization can be had. Thanks for any advice.
Then had the House Curve iOS app build a 20 eq curve shown below:
The speakers are under the windows, about 4-6 " from the wall, angled towards the listener.
Then I uploaded the correction PEQ into Volumio with FusionDSP. The correction quiets down the sound and it feels less harsh but I wonder if I just hear what I wish to hear. I tried using REW on my laptop but frankly found it quite complicated; still managed to build a curve but cannot hear a difference between it and the automatic curve created by the iPhone app.
What does a "good" curve look like and is there any value in pushing this further? I am a satisficer and would be happy to call it good unless some easy additional optimization can be had. Thanks for any advice.
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This is the room, speakers are under the windows, the tripod is where I took the measurement. Ignore the document boxes, filing cabinet and general mess.
The room is open in the back:
The room is open in the back:
What do you think of the original curve? Is it expected for this speaker or is the room adding some funky reflections/reverbs? I cannot permanently place the speaker along the long wall (bookshelf) because of how the room is used, but can try temporarily.
My ears are not very sophisticated as a newb to the audiophile scene, and at 55 years of age, am dropping off acuity over 10000Hz (maybe even lower) but I listen to a lot of studio recordings of jazz and chamber music on QOBUZ which I expect are sonically optimized and they sound good to me with the DSP correction shown above. I cannot correct the house at all for cosmetic reasons. Floors are travertine, although the room has a large and thick carpet so that soaks up some noise.
I just saw that you drew that red/orange horizontal line at -22dB. Is the curve supposed to look horizontal or slope down like the HouseCurve software suggests?
Yes my room is not ideal. Tile floor and brick back wall. My main question is whther hte ideal curve would be sloiping down as frequencies rise or should it be horizontal? I am so sorry if this is obvious.
