DSP/DRC for Grimm MU-1 + Mola Mola Tambaqui

[Brucemck2]

After many years of playing around with room correction, I decided the game was not worth the candle. The additional DSP introduces colorations that are just not worth the possible improvements. All these curves of how smooth the response is with room correction are illusory. If you move around a room and take measurements, your corrected room response goes to pieces.

I find well-tuned DSP to be “different than” rather than “lesser than” for two channel listening - with my preferences highly dependent on the speakers, their placement, the room, the playlist, and my mood.

I’ve measured at multiple points pre/post DSP in multiple rooms and the results are almost always an improvement in low frequency ringing and time alignment, but more modest improvements in frequency response.

 

[godofwealth]

DSP can work well in some cases. The most dramatic example I encountered was once when I bought a used pair of ProAc 3.8 speakers where one speaker clearly had a defective crossover. Using DSP I was able to correct its response so that it very nearly sounded identical to the working one. It was amazing to see what DSP could do. Without it that broken speaker was unlistenable. With it, you could hardly tell the difference.

 

[PGA]

Ditto on recommending Mitch. He provided nice improvements for me in two different high-end settings (one set of filters for a setting with extensive acoustic treatment and another in a ”typical hi-rise condo“ setting.) In both cases the “losses” from inserting DRC were outweighed by the compelling gains.

Ditto again recommending Mitch Barnett. My TAD R1s now using his convolution filters running on Roon never sounded this good. Absolutely spectacular. And Mitch also did the same for my friend that owns CR1s with similar excepcional results. Nothing I’ve done has ever made such a difference. The dynamics, timbre, natural tone, imaging, depth, air … are better than ever.

 

[Carlos269]

Ditto again recommending Mitch Barnett. My TAD R1s now using his convolution filters running on Roon never sounded this good. Absolutely spectacular. And Mitch also did the same for my friend that owns CR1s with similar excepcional results. Nothing I’ve done has ever made such a difference. The dynamics, timbre, natural tone, imaging, depth, air … are better than ever.

Excellent! Glad to hear of your great results.