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I watched a great tutorial about REW the other day, does look like a can of worms but I’m looking forward to giving it a try if/when I can buy the kit (want to build a Roon server). Did you get noticeable results after REW or was it not hugely better than just going by ear?
Bi-amping those big boys with an active crossover will be great.
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I borrowed a friends really expensive flat response mic and (cheap) USB audio interface - the measured response was almost identical to the tiny cheap Dayton iMM6 I scored on eBay.
I fiddled about all morning, EQing the sub and mains. Went out, came back and put a record on - sounded awful! Had to tone a lot of it down by ear - turns out that a flat response sounds shit. Took almost all the EQ off the mains (apart from the shelfing of the HF that I’d done by ear already.) Measuring the sub and mains separately to design the crossover was really good though.
Kept all the EQ on the sub but it’s a bit much sometimes in movies and stuff so need to fix that. Now I have these big bastards though I’m not sure I’ll bother with the sub. Even in too-small sealed cabs the bass is nice, despite what the owners of 12” and 15” Monitor Golds say.
Goodness me Bowie sounds good through these. I reckon I’ll be able to tell when things in my collection were mastered using Tannoys.
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So far so good with the Tannoys. Not blown away, but they are very undersized crappy original cabinets. I’m probably missing the point-source revelation that a lot of people would get as I’m coming from FR speakers. None of the nasty HF stuff I got from the little Fostex, though they might have had the edge for imaging and soundstage. Need to get these up on stands at ear level though.
The miniDSP & sub are bypassed now, just trying the Tannoys IIILZ straight through. They won’t need a sub if I build 100lt ported cabinets! Not sure my wife will allow that though.
REW was interesting / frustrating. I’ve got a 41Hz room mode that’s impossible to get rid of with EQ, that’s just the way it is - though I’m not sure I’d even notice it if I didn’t know. Cleared up some other stuff but it’s definitely a learning curve, I had a bash but there’s a lot to learn and a much less heavy handed approach to be taken.
Might use the miniDSP to bi-amp the Tannoys. Another class D amp like mine is cheaper than re-doing the crossovers.