Digital Room Correction - Ext.Processor vs PC

[Mika75]

I'm very interested in doing something along the lines of Room Correction/Equalization.

Behringer DEQ2496 is one option, another is building a dedicated Media PC.

What is the best way to go about it, and more so the easier way without spending a small fortune ....aka Tact/Meridian

 

[Mika75]

I did a search b4 starting this, I found ONE thread regarding DRC that dates back to 2005!!


Originally by: Thorsten Loesch

Now, let's for a moment just assume that you own a pair of speakers that will deliver a perfectly flat frequency response from 20Hz to 20kHz (not that such exist, but just for fun lets assume). Now we take these perfect speakers and place them carefully, with loads of tuning and care in our dedicated listening room. Then we fill this as much expensive room treatment as we can afford and sit down to listen, in our comfy chair in around 3m distance. Do we now get 20Hz to 20kHz flat? You gotta be kidding buddy.

He goes on to say:

So, after we have placed our perfect speaker into a normal room the perfect Frequency response of our perfect speaker is so FUBAR (Fu<&ed Up Beyond Any Recognition). And there are so many discrete dips and peaks of quite substantial magnitude that a pretty sophisticated Equalizer is needed to correct that. Some may dispute that this frequency response, the one that includes the resonant field and the direct sound is the one that makes for our perception of tonality, but based on my own experiences in both pro-audio and high-end I beg to differ. The more even the in room, total summed response, the more natural the sound.

Why there is no discussion about something so paramount to home audio reproduction here plain amazes me!