maybe I just need to give it a chance to let my ears and my minds bias get used to one
A couple of things to remember on this point.
Floyd Toole notes how the human mind has an adaptation ability, which probably means that you have adapted to your existing straight audio system in a way that makes its failings okay for you. And suddenly having them removed might not instantly be seen as better.
Secondly, you have to make sure that your room correction is properly set up, as I described in my previous post. No point in giving ‘wrong’ room EQ an extended opportunity!
I found that after immersing myself into the room correction of my system, after properly setting it up, for a couple of months, then switching back to uncorrected was completely unacceptable. Especially in the bass.
Above the bass frequencies is another matter, because, if you have speakers that are exceptionally flat in their frequency response on the listening axis, then if the room equalisation system does anything to modify that, it is definitely doing the wrong thing. And, in that situation, they usually will do the wrong thing, because you have set a target curve for direct plus reflected sound, and it is trying to match that. It usually isn’t clever enough to realise that it is stuffing up an excellent axial frequency response, which is the most important thing not to stuff up. It is only if your speakers have frequency response aberrations in the mid range and treble frequencies, that there was any real justification for the room correction system to apply any corrections in those frequency ranges. And even then, you really want to monitor exactly what it has done and see whether that is the smartest thing to do, because, as I just noted above, they tend to look too much at the sum of the direct plus reflected sound, and attempt to meet a target curve.
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