Recent content by PK1

It’s not for the control, I know I can have a lot more control with software on the Mac. It’s more about the user friendliness of a dedicated streamer (with a good app) vs. having to sit in front of my TV with a keyboard and mouse in my lap. I’ve got a mirroring app but the experience sucks, and...

Thanks. We went through this a few weeks ago in the other thread (that was me!) and I was going to do exactly this, but I’ve since been thinking about getting a dedicated streamer so I didn’t bother downloading and setting up the apps. I think I’ll do this now to experiment before (if) getting a...

Thanks Travis. I thought it might be something like this, but then I thought they would have probably greyed out the settings instead of allowing the user to make adjustments without any effect!

I have a Mac Mini (late 2014 running on Monterey 12.7.5) as a streaming source for Apple Music. The Mac feeds a Denafrips Iris DDC using USB, and from there it goes to a Denafrips Pontus II using I2S. The stereo image seems a little skewed to the right of center, and given that my room is...

Very clear, thanks for posting. I still have to do some physical room correction or do some repositioning of speakers but for digital correction I’ll do what you’re doing. SoundSource doesn’t do individual channels and also doesn’t automatically load REW filters in AUNbandEQ, although...

And the whole set up for good measure:

@ddude003 thanks for the list of apps and plugins, very helpful. So sounds like Blackhole effectively does what SoundSource does but you said it also needs a plugin host for AU. Is this something that is within the app or a separate thing I need to install? Also, is another way of thinking...

@VinceHoffman that’s quite the set up you have there! The material that @JStewart had posted earlier in this thread was very educational for me and made it clear that SBIR can’t be fixed with EQ, which makes a ton of sense now that I know why. I still applied EQ filters to align the response to...

Correct. Since the legend wasn’t showing I had pointed this out in the text above the graph. Obvious difference between the left and right speakers in the lower frequency range.

In the schematic I have only shown the audio set up, not everything else. This is also a game room with a shuffle board, air hockey, foosball, etc, and the TV is mounted in between where the speakers are. I’d prefer keeping the set up this way because I simply cannot put the other items in...

Yeah It’s a ton of fun too. It’s the research about everything that takes a of time. For example, if I want to apply EQ and time delays, do I need all the apps and plugins that you highlighted above, or would one (or two) of them do it and everything else is extra features?

if you lived close by I’d offer a few (expensive) beers and other perks for you to come and spend a couple of hours with me to help me figure all this out! This hobby is becoming a full-time job :)

Everybody else measures speaker placement to the mm, and toe-in using a protractor, right? Perfectly normal?

Thanks guys, I watched the video and will need to watch it again (or a few times). very useful video, it’s great that he also has the instructions in print. One thing I need to figure out is how to apply all of these corrections. I don’t use Roon or anything sophisticated, and the only...

By Timing Reference do you mean the option in REW during measurements? The one that emits a little chirp before and after the sweep? If so I have used that in my measurements but have no idea how to use it. How do I align the speakers with that?