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    Posting a Video Recording of Your System Playing

    I've read most of this thread, and I'm surprised that no one mentioned using binaural mics. When you use them, you just have to ask listeners/watchers to put on a decent pair of headphones to get a good 15% or so sense of what it's like to be in the room. While a Neumann KU 100 dummy head mic...
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    iFi audio ZEN DAC Signature V2 - The Official Thread

    This looks amazing. The Signature V2 DAC seems to take the best features and qualities of the NEO iDSD while dropping bits that many folks don't care about, like the underpowered headphone amp, Bluetooth, and S/PDIF inputs. It will pair beautifully with the Signature headphone amps and the new...
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    Roon ROCK (Roon Optimized Core Kit) OS for NUC

    Hmmm...I don't believe that's the intended use for ROCK. I have not built one yet, but my impression was that you generally run this device headless...no keyboard or monitor.
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    Dirac live vs Acourate vs Audiolense

    Let me know how things go with Acourate. Just be aware that convolution is inherently not a bit-perfect process--you will be intentionally manipulating the bits to achieve corrections in response.
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    Dirac live vs Acourate vs Audiolense

    Yikes! Your system is almost certainly a lot more resolving than mine, so without the benefit of spending a few hours (days?) in your listening room, I can't really advise you further. :) It might be interesting to connect a small device like the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B directly to your DAC via...
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    Dirac live vs Acourate vs Audiolense

    I have not encountered a DSP system that works purely in the DSD domain, so to apply room correction, DSD is generally must be converted to PCM. Roon handles this automatically. You can optionally convert the corrected stream back to DSD before routing to the DAC if want, but unless you have a...
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    Dirac live vs Acourate vs Audiolense

    It looks like Uli provided some answers in the Acourate group on Yahoo. I'll paste them here for the benfit of WTB members: and a bit later...
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    Dirac live vs Acourate vs Audiolense

    The measurements that Mitch has presented in his book look convincing to me. While it's true that, "we build systems that support our beliefs", in my experience, Acourate generally works well regardless of the beliefs held by the peope who try it (suggesting that, while perhaps not...
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    Dirac live vs Acourate vs Audiolense

    It's fairly easy to limit the range, but like most things with Acourate, it's not completely obvious. Totally cool if you prefer the sound of Dirac though. It's a good system too. I use it in our home theater.
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    Dirac live vs Acourate vs Audiolense

    Uli has told me that I'm free to take measurements from multiple locations and average them, but he has indicated that there's little benefit to doing so. Also, according to Mitch, the algorithms and approach that Uli uses are fairly stable across a range of listening positions in spite of the...
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    Acourate with Lumin, Tidal and Roon

    Sure thing. This stuff is pretty amazing. Looking forward to hearing how this works for you.
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    Acourate with Lumin, Tidal and Roon

    Ummm...."Roon Bridge" is a "Roon Ready" device. :) If you already have a Roon Ready device like the LUMIN, you don't need Roon Bridge. You would run "Roon Server" on your "Server PC" and setup the LUMIN as one of the zones using Roon Controller.
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    Acourate with Lumin, Tidal and Roon

    Ummm...."Roon Bridge" is a "Roon Ready" device. :) If you already have a Roon Ready device like the LUMIN, you don't need Roon Bridge. You would run "Roon Server" on your "Server PC" and setup the LUMIN as one of the zones using Roon Controller.
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    Acourate with Lumin, Tidal and Roon

    Sure....the format looks like this for a simple passive crossover system: ==> Cor2.0_96.cfg <== 96000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 Cor1S96.wav 0 0.0 0.0 Cor1S96.wav 1 1.0 1.0 Here's a zip file of the .cfg files that I'm currently using: http://www.dsnyder.ws-e.com/ts/roon_cfgs.zip I've...
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    Acourate with Lumin, Tidal and Roon

    Generally, the Roon Server PC will be a bit more powerful than the Roon Bridge PC, requiring one or more fans to keep it cool...and fans are usually noisy! The Server PC may generate more RFI and power supply noise than you'd like to have in the listening room as well. Agreed that wired...
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