[shawn]

Please be kind, first post here lol.
My neverending quest to improve my sound in the theater has lead me here. I have never, ever, done any type of measurements before and I'm quite new to this.

I currently have the x-meridian soundcard in my vista pc using analog outputs to my denon 5800 receiver ext-in. Well that was until today. Now I have the front channel output of the xm going to a 31 band dual eq and then to the denon.

For the measurements I plugged my mackie soundbaord into the 'line-in' of the xm card and have a microphone plugged into channel 1 on the board. (tried plugging mic with adaptor straight into the card but it didn't work.

I have set my vista audio panel to 'x-meridian speakers' output and the 'x-meridian line-in' for the input.

I downloaded the new java and installed the roomeq wizard software. Read the directions, and got stuck. Step 1 was calibrating the system and that's where I am stuck already. I ran a cable from the 'front channel 1/8" jack' output of the xm card to the line-in input and tried to check levels. It didn't work so obviously either I'm an idiot or I'm missing something here.

My goal was to try and measure the front channel speakers make a graph and use that to adjust the eq. then do the same for the rear speakers, and finally the side speakers. I will add 2 more eq's if I notice a decent difference trying the first one on the front speakers. At the moment I am not worried about the sub as I could not find an eq in the store that focused on the 'sub' range.

Could someone please give me step by step directions that a 4 year old could understand? I'd really appreciate it.