[carel1966]

Hi all,

Attached the graphs after my final sub equalization attempt this weekend. I attached both graphs for the sub only and the mains and sub together.

Couple of things I learned during this exercise:

• Don’t be afraid to do manual tweaking. The software is great but sometimes just changing the filter frequency one way or the other makes a huge difference.
• Put enough time aside. This whole process took me a couple of days trying the speakers in different positions etc, but this is the best so far and will leave it there in order to allow me to enjoy my music a bit.
• DO NOT equalize the sub and mains together if you listen to 5.1 source material. As the sub have to make up for both peaks and dips in the mains it sounds awful on its own with a dedicated LFE soundtrack. (I took the forums advice and EQ’d the sub first, and was lucky that it integrated well with the mains).
• Do not use 2 mic’s at the same time, the difference (and associated frequency wavelengths) between them create great anomaly’s in the measurements. I ended up calibrating both mikes to exactly the same level and then averaging the results to make adjustments off the average measurement. This also allowed me to give my seat just a little bit more emphasis by measuring it twice.

Again – thanks for everyone’s advice and like before this just shows me that I will seriously have to consider room treatment to get a more natural flat response.

For now I will enjoy the music, stereo first but also surround sound concerts etc.

Have fun,
Carel