I know, at least for bass tweaking it is a great thing that the Altitude has this feature. It would be great if you could compare a caibration with loaded PEQ's and without. What changes does Harman recommend?
They have a list and my dealer helped me program them. I am not sure they are public, but they increase resolution, raise the IIR upper limit frequency, few others I forget. They also have you load the Harman target curves, of course. There may be others they do, I haven't had time to set up a meeting with my dealer to walk through them yet. Normally he and I would be doing more, but I wanted to get it going when I had a day off, and my work hours are crazy lately (better than the alternative, but sometimes I wonder...) Then the whole COVID-19 bit; my wife works at a hospital and has been exposed at least once but did not catch it; my son is a counselor and debating whether to come for Mother's Day on Sunday out of fear he may unknowingly give it to us or
vice-versa. Crazy times.
You could just hit compute again, that should apply the changes.
That's what I did, but am not sure it gave me the same result as re-running the calibration. In fact it did not, but I was mucking around, so may have gotten things out of order or missed a setting. I suspect pilot error but once I got my three basic cals done I decided to quit for now and wait until I have more time to compare them, plus hook hook up with my dealer to review. Next week was the plan, but that is "my" week on-site at work so it may be the week after.
I have done some calibrations together with the Trinnov team - they always turned on bass management only AFTER the calibration. They btw never used the new Wizard, but did everything manually. That's how I do it as well.
I started manually, since the Wizard is never mentioned in the manual, but I couldn't get a cal (crest factor too low). I found the Wizard and it worked but all it does is walk you through the same process, though it does have you set bass management first. There is a flow chart in the manual showing it before the Optimizer and it seems they just followed the flow. Other references agree with you that is does not matter. As for calibration, I have done it manually many times since, so I think the first time I must have had something wrong on my end.
(Don't tell anyone, but one other time I had the same problem, and noticed that I was on the wrong input, and more than one meter was flickering, which should have been a clue... Stoopid Don Trick.)