Hello,
I just became a member. Was reading this tread last night. I’ve been a member over at the AV science form for quite some time.
Audio Science Review seems like a better fit for me.
A bit of background, I got multEQ-X several months back. I’ve spent well over 100 hours playing around with it. Done dozens of different profiles, played with every PEQ filter there is, gotten some great results and obviously some horrible ones.
A few weeks back on some of the forms / threads, appears that Audessy / Marantz, Denon had a time alignment issue.
So I immediately took some readings using REW with my Umik-2.
The results I got were odd. So like always,
because this is a hobby for me and I enjoy it. I proceeded to try to get the actual measurements not what multEQ-X is or what My Marantz receiver has. I know there’s some secret sauce around all of this.
I’m not trying to start some controversy Or create some scandal.
If you look at the screenshot of my notes. I ended up spending quite a bit of time to force MultEQ-X / my Marantz 7705 to get the actual real distances from the main listening position. After it produced results that I’ve never had before. I could hear my rear speakers. Meaning I’m in a full bubble of sound now. Before when listening to stuff in Neural:X - Dolby Atmos, was like being in Half to 2/3 of a bubble.
When using the profile that has the corrected distances the sides and rears have a seamless pan affect. And again the rears are significantly more present.
And yes of course I’ve turned up the rears and played around with different volumes settings. it’s not the same.
If you’d like please take a look at my dedicated theater
https://www.avsforum.com/threads/sunken-treasure-theater.3243916/
it’s in a huge sunken living room. The volume of space around me is gigantic. When listening or watching anything it already sounds massive me. So I can only surmise that Audessy think or wants it to be big/small space, who knows.
I’ve been told before that Audessy’s eight Mike positions takes in to consideration all of this stuff. ???
So have any of you played around with this. Maybe tried moving the distances around. Have you gotten better or worse results. Have you also re-run the
first mic position. Meaning you can use the new app and right click each of the speaker, then retake that measurement. move the mic around until you get the exact distance needed. This way the delay is close to what it should be. See picture below
This is the profile I saved where It's corrected. Because my understanding is the first mic position is what does the distance and delay.??? I also have another profile that just has the distances changed but the delays are off, which sounds awesome?