Building a Target to be loaded into Dirac Full (beginners)

[socketman]

Does it sound good to you? If you identify something that is offensive then you can use the tools in Dirac to fix the problem. I would not be in a big rush to fix something that is not broken. Use the automatic curve generation and then listen for a while if you like it then nothing more needs to be done. I use lots of bookmarks and mostly Wikipedia and REW forum at HTS to gain insight. Baby steps.

The curtains help adjust the range that Dirac creates filters for . No point creating filters for parts of the frequency range that will be unused due to crossover setting or where the speaker produces no real output of value. All the ups and downs in the frequency response curve is the result of reflections and cancelations in the room. The graphs are a visual representation of what the ears are hearing, at least in theory. I will update as I think of more ways we can help you get a better understanding. Bare in mind that Tony has formal training and higher education which I myself don't have so I bug him lots too. There are no stupid questions just stupid answers. Forums are for sharing and learning so you should not feel like a burden, I didn't know anywhere near what I know now 2 yrs ago and I have been heavy into car audio and speaker building for a lot of years.

[socketman]

This is a good place to start

www.crutchfield.com/S-UNV8IfpEHTw/learn/learningcenter/home/speakers_roomacoustics.html

[Thunderduck]

Thank you for the link above. Definitely bookmarked that article.

Tony, if it is not too much trouble would really appreciate a "crib sheet" on this but please do not think it is something you have to do or drop everything else to do this.

Will keep giving it a go.

Thanks to all,

Steve

[nickwin]

emotivalounge.proboards.com/thread/40626/interpreting-dirac-results-beginners

If you haven't read this it's a great start.

[Thunderduck]

Thank you. Will go over that again. May understand it better this time around.

[nickwin]

Apr 7, 2015 20:08:39 GMT -5 ansat said:

Apr 7, 2015 9:40:20 GMT -5 nickwin said:

i honestly can't even begin to guess. It sounds like it's definitely not what you would expect. Any update Tony?

Not yet, the answer I am waiting on is to if the info outside of the curtains us used in determining the gain applied. I seen a pretty large difference between the gain in some of my measurements.

Tony

Let us know when your comfortable doing so. I'm having crazy level/gain issues all the sudden and I can't help wonder if its related to what your finding. The weird thing is I didn't have this issue before, it kind of came out of nowhere, and now I can't get ride of it.

[alucard]

Apr 4, 2015 17:45:58 GMT -5 ansat said:

Apr 4, 2015 17:44:54 GMT -5 Thunderduck said:

Thank you!!

looks like it can be found -- C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Dirac\OEM\Emotiva\Targets

Are you talking about the default target Dirac provides? I cant find that file. Might be built into the app.

[ansat]

May 2, 2015 8:27:08 GMT -5 alucard said:

Apr 4, 2015 17:45:58 GMT -5 ansat said:

looks like it can be found -- C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Dirac\OEM\Emotiva\Targets

Are you talking about the default target Dirac provides? I cant find that file. Might be built into the app.

there is no default target. But this is where dirac full will default saved curves.

Tony

[wilburthegoose]

bumping - this was such a help to me back in the day, I was hoping others could find it useful today