Hey guys. Got my system setup. Vintage Klipsch heresy towers. Yamaha s301. Project carbon TT. Ortofon blue. Ifi audio zen pre amp. Tidal from PC to DAC in Yamaha via optical. Yamaha EQ. Room treatment. Optimal speaker placement. Sounds fantastic. However this room is literally 8x10. The Heresy’s are midfield and wow they sound good even in a small room.
Situation: I bought a mini dsp umik mic. Figured I would use Dirac next. Trouble is I need the hardware unit… minidsp flex or 2x4 seems the cheapest option. So another 300 and then the Dirac license! Add it all up and ya it’s not cheap.
Facts: I listen to vinyl 90% of the time. So to use Dirac, which is digital, to provide REW when I stream so rarely, does this make sense. Now I can output the TT analog signal via rca from the phono preamp into the miniDSP analog inputs on the unit. Then from there it will convert from analog to digital (haha) and back to analog again to the amplifier.
Question: is it really worth dsp processing REW to get better room correction, the cost, in such a small treated room, when it already sounds amazing and I’m a vinyl guy?
Tough call. Need opinions.
Similar situation as you. Ortofon blue on an old SL1200 too. VERY awkward speaker placement options to go along with it.
Used the 2x4 minidsp and it did improve things a bit. It also muddies up the sound a little, but I think I need the Dirac more than I needed the clarity.
If your DSP is “muddying” the sound I recommend to redo the process or try different filter correction methods.