REW gives this, how to improve?

[Paul McNeil]

I requested a 6db boost below 150 Hz for room gain. It's not being toned down more by design. It's a preference thing. The room issues happen to land within the upper range of that though, so it doesn't curve as broadly as the ideal would be. Again though, I have no issues with it in actual use/listening.

Got it....

 

[Paul McNeil]

Ok, one thing I may have missed is the review by the big guy, Gene D., of Dirac on the Marantz AV10. He states that he has collaborated with Marantz in altering Audyssey control of the large front speaker's bass integration with subwoofers (hmmm, go guy), and has displayed REW (I think) results using the AV10 with Audyssey, that included multiple tweaks (well big bass adjustment, it's a big tweak). His REW (and what else counts) room correction RESULTS are comparable to mine, and I did NO TWEAKS. I have posted on how, in particular, Audyssey compares to Dirac Live with Bass Control running on the Marantz AV10....(https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/marantz-av10-calibrated-by-audyssey-lacks-bass.128490/). Still trying to dial it in!

 

[PENG]

One problem is, here on this site, there is no data, no REW measurements that take us beyond the 'snake oil' that this site avoids.

Are you looking for other's REW measurements to compare? If so, are you looking for measurements using Audyssey, or Dirac Live or Dirac Live with Bass Control, and those using the AV10? You must know that everyone has different room, speakers, placements etc., so even if can compare with other AV10 user's, it won't likely be easy to conclude whether yours the best you can do or you can still tweak for better results.

What you show now, assuming smoothing used is not more than 1/12, it looks good and in my own setups, I would say it would look typical, but with lots of tweaks you can make it look better, even much better (like mine) but it may not give you better listening experience in real world use. I like tweaking, as I like to see smoother, flatter response, at least up t around 200 Hz, but I only do it for fun, not that I could hear better overall sound quality from such flatter, say +/- 1.5 dB no smoothing between 20-150 Hz vs +/- 3.5 dB.

 

[ski2xblack]

Paul, your measurement, far field at the mlp, looks quite good. Really good, actually.

If anything, it looks ever so slightly elevated from about 3k to 6k. Such a broad elevation may impart some brightness or forwardness. The modal stuff down lower is nigh impossible to assess remotely, and nothing really jumps out as a glaring problem.

So you're doing pretty damn good IMO. Sure, you could go all OCD audio nerd to make some marginal improvements, maybe, or kick back and enjoy the fruits of your speaker choice and calibration efforts.