Post by nickwin on Mar 30, 2015 7:52:42 GMT -5
I ran Dirac for the first time today (full version). It sounds really good in a lot of ways, but the bass, lower mids seemed off to me. Ran a couple quick measurements with REW and this is what I got. I set up my subwoofer target curve to rise 5db between 80 and 20 hz. My cross over is 100hz. To me it looks like Dirac over compensated in the 100-300hz range and set the subwoofer level to low. Whats going on, should I remeasure?
The first graph is dirac exactly how it came out and the second is with 5.5db added to the sub.
Edit: I generally use the SPL meter within REW rather than my RS meter since I can use a calibrated mic with REW.
Edit #2: I just remembered that distance is removed when you run Dirac.
To me it sounded ok with the bass at +5.5 but I felt the tonality was off. There was a ton of mid bass that just didn't sound natural to me and even at +5.5 it drown out the lower bass. I switched to socketmans vs file and it sounds MUCH better to my ears. The graphs its producing also look much more linear. I highly recommend using an accurate 90° cal over Emotivas.
My newest graphs with sockemans cal file look super linear BUT I'm having trouble with the bass that's routed through the crossovers. If you could play with the distance setting post Dirac it would be really nice.