| So sorry guys.... I promise I'll report within the next day or two. It's been an interesting journey for me.
I'll give more details later, but here's the brief synopsis. Hooked ARC up and it exposed how totally jacked my room is. I liked what it was doing for the most part, but it sort of just seemed like it was working way to hard to do it. Sounded unnatural.
So, I went to work and tore out all my treatment and built and installed 27 DIY bass traps. Sounds MUCH better now... but the renovation put me a week behind on projects so I've had to play catch up and haven't had a chance to rerun ARC. I will try to do it tomorrow and I'll give all the details of how it sounded the first time (before the new bass traps) and what I think now. I'm sorry I haven't reported back sooner.
The only concern I have right now with ARC is that it sounded phasy to me on the high end. It also seemed to thin out the low mids quite a bit, but this might just be because I was so used to the boxyness of the 100 - 200 problem in my room. A fellow gearslut PM'd me with a similar experience as far as the phasyness. IK sent a free update that addressed some phase issues, but I think it only addressed low end phase issues. So, I dunno. There are a few other reasons I may have been having phasyness, so I'll reserve judgement till I hook this thing back up tomorrow. Again sorry to keep anyone who cares waiting.
One last thing, even after 27 bass traps, I've moved my Barefoot MM27s to every possible spot in the front half of my 14 x 20 room, and I STILL have the 150hz bump. Pisses me off. Overall, it's MUCH better, but I guess with 27 bass traps I expected the pesky f-er to go away. Oh well, maybe ARC will do the trick. I am happy about one thing already though.... I thought my room was pretty decent (except for the bump) but when listening to the difference with and without ARC, it was pretty eye-opening. Everything really cleared up... almost too much. I have really great monitors and I really would've expected it to not be so drastic. So, it really inspired me and helped me believe these guys that say you could have the best speakers in the world and still not really be hearing them. I just hope ARC doesn't overdo it. To me, now that my room is much better, I really need it to just fix those little low end issues cause I like the high end just fine now. I'm rambling... sorry.... More to come......
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