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I have accumulated several mdats of various speakers over the years. Here is data from my Carver Amazing Platinum Mark IV, and a Harmon F328 (which is the best I've seen). My Carver is heavily EQ'd, in a non-treated great room 18' x 36' with cathedral ceiling, and one wall mostly of glass...

If there's a problem with cable length, you will get dropouts during the frequency sweep. I had problems with cables around 5 meters length. It will vary with the quality of the cable.

Get blankets, or buy an open-cell foam bed topper, and place them to damp all the reflections. Or move the system to a large room, or even outdoors, and remeasure. I think you have so much reflection that it will be difficult to EQ the system. (I am not an expert, just play with REW a lot. :) )

I use memory foam mattress material behind my Carver Amazing driver. It is, at the very least, a very cheap way to test.

UMIK-2 is NOT a 'better' UMIK-1. It has a larger mic, and that has implications (that I don't remember).

You can post the .MDAT here, imgur.com, or your favorite audio forum. Most of us are amateurs, FYI.

Drag those files onto a web page of this: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload

You have assumed that Erin and Amir aren't aware of that. They are. They both listen first, then look at the measurements, and correlate ears to measurements.

My suggestion is that you try all variations, and compare the graphs. I think the largest consensus is to slowly sweep the 'head space' or the entire row of listener's head spaces while using pink noise. I run a sweep for each ear, at the ear's location in space, with the mic pointing at the...

My Carver Amazing dipoles radiate strongly out to ~75*, and maybe more (I didn't check any further). They are a trapezoid 3' wide at top, 4' wide at bottom, and 5' high, so somewhat similar in size to the ML's.

Could I beg you to post the REW data file? I want to see how my speakers compare. Thank you.

I originally searched the internet, and then reviews for units that fit my price range, and that were portable. I wanted to listen to Sennheiser 800s headphones with a laptop. After I digitized all my music, I wanted a good measuring DAC for my main system. I used Audio Science Review's...

I have been using both for more than 5 years. John-does exclusive mode bypass EQapo?

I play FLAC thru a laptop. I use EQapo to equalize my speakers. I export text files generated by REW's EQ function. I put the files in .txt files, and put the names of those .txt files into EQapo's default .txt file in the EQapo directory. (I can't remember the name of the default file...

I had problems with two different ~15 foot cables. I went back to the one supplied, no problems then. (And I have a new, and old UMIK-1). FYI.