Thanks for the link. This is effectively saying "thanks for the $199, now it'll be another $79 to calibrate your mic." Thinking thru how it works, from a functional perspective, this is by far the fastest to market approach to get calibrated mics to people that want them. I'd prefer to use my UMIK-1, but I can also see how that's way more work than offering a calibration file to match a specific mic without having to change much at all. A UMIK-1 would require pretty big architecture changes from a software/hardware/process perspective since the AVR is doing the measuring and not the software.
Lol. You can just not comment in this thread.
Probably not worth the effort since Audyssey is working on it and will come up with something better than a 3rd party could.
I meant for being able to use a 3rd party calibrated mic, if they can't implement the measurement process to be on the PC (at least so far they didn't and we don't' know if they will), maybe they could at least let us have 3rd party software do this and provide the required measurement results. The rest of the process remains unaffected.
I still think that if they know the general cal loaded in the AVR for their mics, they could compare that to the cal file for a UMIK-1 to figure the difference and adjust accordingly. But I think their argument is that calculating the timings has to happen through the AVR itself. They have talked about adding import of REW files to adjust filtering though, which I think is probably the best way of handling things for people who want to use their UMIK-1.
I may eventually do the whole UMIK-1 and MiniDSP thing for my subs, but honestly, I've been pretty happy with the response I'm getting in my room without it. I have some room-related issues that I need to handle with treatments, but the only glaring problem I have with my subs is a deep narrow null around 110Hz that existed both before and after I went dual subs. But... it's at 110Hz and I'm crossing everything over below that, so I haven't felt like it was a big deal thus far.
Well, generally just by how it sounds to me. And as imperfect as it may be, also by playing noise tones and using Spectroid on my phone to look for any glaring issues. I've found the best crossovers for my speakers mostly by playing content I know and trying different settings, informed by what I see in Audyssey's measurements and tailoring the cutoffs in MultEQ X a bit. Not pretending it's ideal... but MultEQ X thus far has done a pretty solid job with sub distance. At least enough that I don't feel that anything is lacking across any of my crossover ranges.
The 112 has a frequency response of:
| Frequency Response (Anechoic) | 22 - 118 Hz (±1.5dB) -3 dB at 21 Hz / 120 Hz -10 dB at 17 Hz / 153 Hz |
I think it's just room gain. Could be wrong. Hopefully it is, for the sake of his subs, and not an Audyssey boost.
