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I measured again with high frequencies only, 10K-20K sweep. The impulses all look consistent with each other. Then I tested a different pair of Focals - I moved my rears to the fronts, and these measurements look basically the same as the original speakers. So I'm concluding there's no tweeter...

Wow very interesting.... Just to clarify, do you mean you've seen inverted wiring on these Focal monitors? or just on monitors in general? If one tweeter was inverted then the high end of my stereo playback would be playing out of phase :( I just did some testing with a sine wave sent to L+R...

Hi Deer Creek! FYI I bought my UMIK mic from you guys :) When I move the mic a little bit ( a few inches from the MLP) there's not much change in the 400-500Hz dip - it shifts up and down the spectrum a little. When I move the mic a major amount, like 2 feet up and 1 foot to the side, then the...

Sherlock Holmes...do you mean a mystery?? or the shape of his pipe :p I'll try out some other mic positions and see if it changes. Funny graphic in your post - do all engineers look dorky like him?? For sure I have my SPL meter and mic on booms stands. I use a 3 sec delay, then scoot to the...

Gotcha, thanks for your feedback. I will not worry about it! The other thing that stands out to me on the SPL curve is the big dip between 400 & 550Hz. Do you think this is a room mode thing? Any suggestions on how to figure out if I can do something about it?

Thanks DanDan. I rechecked my speaker distances from the mic and got them as matched as humanly possible. I did new measurements of individual L and R as well as L+R, and I tried combining individual L and R results using trace arithmetic like you suggested. But the arithmetic result looks the...

Thank you, I did just start using the acoustic timing feature, and I have it set to output from my right speaker. Can you elaborate on 'properly aligning' the speakers? I'm not sure what you mean. Also, what do you look for when measuring the sub independently? What I'm doing now is measuring...

thanks for the reply, that's what I was hoping to hear! So this confirms I don't have a wiring or speaker issue.

Hi there, I just finished converting a bedroom into a mix room for my audio post work - TV and commercial mixing. I framed out the walls and ceiling and used fluffy insulation throughout. It's a 5.1 setup but most of my work is 2.1 so I'm focusing on calibrating the 2.1 setup now. I have Focal...