Hello
Just out of interest how are you guys/girls doing? I myself probably go against the streem a little in my choices, however, I like the result at my home.
Regardless of whether you have Marantz, Anthem, Yamaha or other brand. do you use Audysseey, dirac or do you play movie/music without it?
I will share my personal experience.
I’ve tried yamaha ypao mic calibration. It sounded lifeless and dull.
I’ve done manual calibration using tape measure for distance. Spl meter for speaker levels. And I find this to deliver the fullness of the speakers. Significantly better in quality and enjoyment.
I don’t know to explain it but this works best for me.
Yamaha room calibration is well known for not beeing among the best :/
Jimmy thanks for the question. I used the Denon calibration. Had to buy the separate microphone needed that wasn’t included with the AVR. Worked for movies and TV with my 7 speaker set-up. I used the Sonos Truesound app to calibrate the Beam 2 and mini sub linked to my main TV. Again sounds good for movies but I don’t like for listening to music. Find the calibrations over emphasize the bass for music and I end up adjusting it down so it sounds right to me. And I’m a bass head so go figure. It’s one of the reasons I ended up with the 1723 towers. I don’t use room calibration at all for music now because I don’t like the adjusted sound. I Prefer the unfiltered sound of tone bypass so i hear just what Qobuz is streaming in Hi-Res or a remixed/remastered CD. Deciding what sounds right in the room is part of the enjoyment of the musical journey. Enjoy!
Hi
The room take a high percentage of what you hear.
I agree with @Jean-Michel Gauthier
It does not care if it stereo or part of multi channel music/movies .
The room dimensions as referring to room moods, the furniture in the room and all of the content in the room (SBIR) influence the way we hear.
The purpose of the room correction is to reduce interruption of all the above.
I agree with @lukas, all the room correction need to give you control to change its automatic settings.
I use a denon 3400x audyssey is on for movies and music, without audyssey the subwoofer is a complete mess in my small room.
I purchase the audyssey multeq editor app today and run the calibrations, it was not flawles but way better than expected when i read the reviews for that app.
I have a stable network and used a samsung tab s5
I had Denon room calibration in my home theater system but found I chose to override the settings to my liking. I don’t have for my current music only setup and I’m very happy with the sound. So OFF for me.
My settings with the audyssey multeq editor app, only correction to 500hz for al 7 speakers and subwoofer.
And the Midrange compensation off, it sounds perfect for music and movies.
I have 28 acoustic panels in my room. 1723’s presumably have a very flat frequency response. And I still think Dirac works wonders. Using the +6db Harman curve downloaded from Youthman’s site, and a UMIK-1. I do increase the surrounds and sub a little bit.
