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brucek wrote:
 There is really no upside to boosting in the BFD.... it decreases dynamic range, reduces headroom in the DSP and reduces signal to noise ratio. Any boost at any frequency before the crossover frequency requires reduction in the input level of the BFD to make room for the boost.
brucek |
Can you please explain this in some more detail. In a couple of places I used a +2 or +3dB gain for a small bandwidth maybe 2-4 (IIRC on about 25hz and another about 60hz.
I'd like to better understand how this may be hurting things. If this one of those "in principle" things or am I definitely getting lesser dynamic range/sound from the sub as a result? Or is it something I'm really not going to notice sound or power-wise with small amounts?
In my case the sub has plenty of power. I have a nearly perfect house curve at +8dB 20 to +0dB at 80hz. The response follows the curve almost perfectly. The sub know is turned up only 1/4 of the way. When I listen to music or movies with heavy bass action scenes the sub sounds nice and strong with plenty seemingly left over if I wanted to go even louder (which I don't).
Is there a way to measure definitively whether any gains I've made no matter how small or large are hampering the subs ability to perform. Basically I turned the sub up considerably to begin with to get things at the right "starting point" and then made cuts throughout - but to balance it out I needed a couple gains here and there...
Thanks!