More Dirac questions

[William Lemmerhirt]

I just ordered an Integra DXR 3.4. It comes with Dirac Live Room Control only. As far as I understand this doesn't adjust the crossovers of each speaker. What do you suggest? Should I set all speakers large, let Dirac do its thing and then run REW tests to set the crossovers and set the speakers small? Or should I do the crossovers twicking before running Dirac?

Anything you do pre Dirac will be overwritten during the calibration. Where did the information come from that it won’t set individual XO’s?

 

[dlaloum]

With my 3.4, I started with AccuEQ, which set the crossovers, and then I ran Dirac....

The crossovers are up to the AVR - so you either set them manually or you use an alternate measurement/calculation system to set them.... AccuEQ seems to do a good job.

 

[dlaloum]

Anything you do pre Dirac will be overwritten during the calibration. Where did the information come from that it won’t set individual XO’s?

Dirac Live doesn't set the crossovers - it uses whatever is in the system and adjusts from there (without changing XO's)
Dirac Live Bass Management sets/adjusts crossovers - but is not included on the 3.4

Crossovers are therefore up to the AVR... you either set them manually or using an alternate set of tools. I used the included AccuEQ software to set the XO's.

 

[adrianconst]

Dirac Live doesn't set the crossovers - it uses whatever is in the system and adjusts from there (without changing XO's)
Dirac Live Bass Management sets/adjusts crossovers - but is not included on the 3.4

Crossovers are therefore up to the AVR... you either set them manually or using an alternate set of tools. I used the included AccuEQ software to set the XO's.

The first step before taking measurement with Dirac is to set the volume/gain for each speaker (in Dirac PC app). Will those be the final gains that Dirac will set for the AVR? What happens if I have some really small surround speakers that need something like +10db to match the volume of the fronts? It looks like I need to set the gain for the fronts to -10db and 0db for the surrounds. Auddisey have the fronts set to 0db and the surrounds set to +10db for my Denon AVR, which I'm upgrading from. Can I change the gain to the way Auddisey has them after finishing tuning with Dirac?

 

[dlaloum]

The first step before taking measurement with Dirac is to set the volume/gain for each speaker (in Dirac PC app). Will those be the final gains that Dirac will set for the AVR? What happens if I have some really small surround speakers that need something like +10db to match the volume of the fronts? It looks like I need to set the gain for the fronts to -10db and 0db for the surrounds. Auddisey have the fronts set to 0db and the surrounds set to +10db for my Denon AVR, which I'm upgrading from. Can I change the gain to the way Auddisey has them after finishing tuning with Dirac?

Well, there are subwoofer XO as well as gain settings that can be autoset using AccuEQ.... after that you can follow the Dirac instructions to complete the setup.... but Dirac Live on its own will not set the XO's - hence my suggestion that the simplest and quickest way to get things running is AccuEQ followed by Dirac.