Is this magic bean thing worth it?

[paulwgraber]

I just stumbled across this Magic Beans Calibration addition to Dirac Live. To be honest it seemed kind of corny with a dude waving a mic in front of every single speaker. I'm assuming it's basically a form of active room treatment.
Anyway, does it work? It is very expensive. About as expensive as DL.
PG

 

[Steve81]

I just stumbled across this Magic Beans Calibration addition to Dirac Live. To be honest it seemed kind of corny with a dude waving a mic in front of every single speaker. I'm assuming it's basically a form of active room treatment.
Anyway, does it work? It is very expensive. About as expensive as DL.
PG

DL is a useful tool to be sure. It’s unclear to me that you need anything else on top of that, assuming the rest of the system is up to snuff.

 

[lovinthehd]

Hadn't heard of it before myself. FWIW https://magicbeansaudio.com/

 

[paulwgraber]

Seems like a game changer. But I will post back my results.

 

[lovinthehd]

Seems like a game changer. But I will post back my results.

How is it a game changer?

 

[Steve81]

How is it a game changer?

There’s a discussion over at ASR. IIRC, Dr. Toole gave his 2 cents as well. He was dubious.

 

[paulwgraber]

Where is this?

 

[Steve81]

Where is this?

it was over at audiosciencereview

 

[lovinthehd]

FWIW aside from the moving mic aspect, which isn't particularly new....I did go looking on ASR assume this is the thread https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/mmm-approach-and-a-new-calibration-app-magic-beans.50297/

 

[paulwgraber]

Well Im going to give it a shot.

 

[lovinthehd]

What do current measurements look like?