The Moog
Established Member
Hi there guys,
Now that I have my lovely little SB-12Plus, and it is sat in the corner where it shall reside, I obviously want to set it up properly. As far as I understand, this involves getting hold of an SPL Meter, burning a CD of test tones, and measuring the room response. Plotting this data, finding the biggest nasty peak in the room, and flattening this off with the EQ controls on the back. Finally, running the whole thing again to see that you have achieved what you set out to do and not made thing worse seems like a good idea as well! Does this seem sensible?
OK then, I hope to buy a better amp at some point next year, and more than likely this will have some kind of room correction built into it (such as Audessey) where it can set itself up and perform its own room correction. My final question is this, if your amp can do this, are you better off:
a) Leaving your corrected sub as it is for the room calibration. The amp has a much better chance of getting it right if you have got the sub fairly close to where it should be already.
or:
b) Defeating the EQ settings you calculated for your sub and letting the amp do it all. It can achieve this much more accurately than you will be able to by hand, so just let it do its thing.
Cheers for the help,
The Moog
Now that I have my lovely little SB-12Plus, and it is sat in the corner where it shall reside, I obviously want to set it up properly. As far as I understand, this involves getting hold of an SPL Meter, burning a CD of test tones, and measuring the room response. Plotting this data, finding the biggest nasty peak in the room, and flattening this off with the EQ controls on the back. Finally, running the whole thing again to see that you have achieved what you set out to do and not made thing worse seems like a good idea as well! Does this seem sensible?
OK then, I hope to buy a better amp at some point next year, and more than likely this will have some kind of room correction built into it (such as Audessey) where it can set itself up and perform its own room correction. My final question is this, if your amp can do this, are you better off:
a) Leaving your corrected sub as it is for the room calibration. The amp has a much better chance of getting it right if you have got the sub fairly close to where it should be already.
or:
b) Defeating the EQ settings you calculated for your sub and letting the amp do it all. It can achieve this much more accurately than you will be able to by hand, so just let it do its thing.
Cheers for the help,
The Moog