Calculating Freq Response, never ending?

[scot]

Looks like I spoke too soon last night on my mac post. Now I am having issues...

After running the speaker calibration, the app starts "calculating frequency response". Figured all was well, and I went to bed. This morning it was STILL running. So I try it in parallels, wow no go there. There is obviously some serious issues running it that way.

So I try on a mac mini I have, but the response appears corrupted. Tried the java 6 beta version available on ADC. No luck, the curve is a bit smoother, but still not right.

So I am now in bootcamp on my macbook pro (c2d), figured we would get to the root of the problem this way. I have line out plugged into line in and run the soundcard measurement. The response is much more linear than either in osx or parallels. I get a bit of a warble beginning above 10khz, but it appears to be +-2db, so probably acceptable.

Then "calculating frequency response" pops up. An hour later it is still burning a hole in my screen.

What gives? Is this actually a problem on MBP systems no matter which OS they are running? I must be missing something.


Java 1.5 and 1.6 have been tried...

[JohnM]

There might be a clue in the log files in your home directory, they are named roomeqwizardx.log.txt where x is 0..9, the lowest number is the most recent startup. However it is probably best to wait for the new version and go from there, I've run it on a Mac Mini and it worked OK but there were clicks in the generated audio, so work to be done on that - no crashes or hangs though.

[scot]

Jan 1, 2007 6:19:48 PM roomeqwizard.RoomEQ_Wizard main
INFO: Room EQ Wizard started

Thats it, nothing else in the logs unfortunately.

[scot]

BTW: is there any way to output the recorded signal to a wav file? I suspect there are not only clicks in the produced signal, but in the recorded signal as well. Randomly I will get the "clipping detected" message even though I heard nothing in the playback and the inputs are set well below clipping.

[JohnM]

The output can't be written to a wav file, but you can see what REW tried to output and what it captured by selecting the Scope graph.

[johnr]

I am using Room EQ Wizard on Windows XP with Java 1.6.0 and I get the same problem: Stuck on "Calculating frequency response...".

There is nothing of note in the logs.

Any ideas?

John

[scot]

Just fyi, even though it says "calculating freq response" the calculation appear to be done. It just has the notification box up. I have duplicated it with 1.6 under both xp and os x on my macbook pro.

I would use the old thinkpad for measurement with java 1.5, but the response curve is a nice constant line from... 45-8khrz. Nothing at all above or below Talk about a bad sound card!

[johnr]

OK...thanks...

I was using a laptop too at first but had all sorts of issues. It is working better since I switched.