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?