DEQ2496 Room Correction EQ??? smart buy??

[College_Records]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAY6TiBC57Y

Is this legit?

[Bill@WelcomeHome]

look into the physics. Eq=frequency based solutions. Room issues? Time based problems. When the paint is chalking on your car, I guess that it could use a good wash, too. But that doesn't really fix the problem.

[Steve_B]

The problem is with the “room” correction. Eq won’t correct room problems. I use a few of the DEQ2496s with PA set ups and it is pretty good, in that it is quiet, does what it is supposed to and has one or two neat features over and above a standard graphic.

It works as well as any other eq for changing the response of a loudspeaker (within the actual limitations of the speaker itself). Instead of using the built in function use a computer based analyser instead. I use Smaart and REW; the latter is free. Pick a nice calm day and measure your loudspeakers outside placed on a stand a couple of metres above ground level. Based on your measurements you can then adjust the settings manually.

If you are measuring in essentially anechoic conditions, then there are no reflections, so a standard RTA should give similar results to a dual channel FFT measurement.

[rifftrax2]

If you believe that stuff like Ergo/ARC/Audyssey/JBL MSC1 is snake oil then the Behringer DEQ2496 is definitely in the same boat.

If you believe that "all that stuff" actually does something and that the engineers behind a large smattering of reputable companies producing software that's been featured in a positive light in pretty much every major mix and audio engineering mag actually know what they are doing then you would do well to get it.

Who's right? Who knows. Apparently everything is snake oil and misguided. All you can "reliably" do (per 'those in teh know') is purchase insanely expensive QRD diffusers and pretend that you have enough money to build your own massive control room with enough broadband absorption material to get your RT60 times down to whatever. Goooood luck.

[Sq1ne]

I wholeheartedly agree with Steve_B

and I've used the unit for 5 years

[College_Records]

I am treating my room as we speak with broadband 703 acoustic panels. What if I use this unit in addition to room treatment?

[diggo]

Originally Posted by rifftrax2

Who's right? Who knows.

Science knows.....and it is well established. This is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact - none of this stuff is excluded from basic physics and it is all easily measured and analysed. Room DSP can work well if it is not used as the only solution. The room and system needs to be properly configured and optimised prior to deploying room DSP. Then the room DSP needs to be properly calibrated by someone who knows what he/she is doing.

Expensive room DSP processors often seem to be bought by people who stubbornly resist doing the unsexy part of room treatment and system optimisation, especially in the expensive audiophile markets. Instead, those buyers get suckered by the mystery of the magic inside the DSP box and expectation bias takes over from there ("that new $6000 magix box really works....and it looks awesome!")

Sean