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I'm rtying to measure emitted acoustic energy by a subwoofer (vs frequency, of course) by measuring the cone velocity (with an accelerometer), pressure (with a microphone), and scalar-multiplying them to obtain the energy. I expect one to be pretty close to 90deg phase-shifted relative to the other, so a small error in phase measurement can result in a large error in the result. So i'm now going super-paranoid on getting rid of as many dc-blocking high-pass filters as possible.
Now, my soundcard happens to have a pretty high dc offset. This seems to cause some troubles in the measured spectrum (ripples). REW conveniently offfers a high-pass filter to fix that, but it adds a bit of phase shift in the frequencies of interest (5.5deg as 20Hz). I wonder if there is a better way to fix that.
For example, expanding the impulse response window helps quite a bit. But sometimes not sufficiently, it seems.
Here are some pics. This is just loopback, the ripples are not terrible. Real measurements are sometimes more concerning. Looking at the step response, it begs to have the slope subtracted (i.e., offset in impulse response)
I'm rtying to measure emitted acoustic energy by a subwoofer (vs frequency, of course) by measuring the cone velocity (with an accelerometer), pressure (with a microphone), and scalar-multiplying them to obtain the energy. I expect one to be pretty close to 90deg phase-shifted relative to the other, so a small error in phase measurement can result in a large error in the result. So i'm now going super-paranoid on getting rid of as many dc-blocking high-pass filters as possible.
Now, my soundcard happens to have a pretty high dc offset. This seems to cause some troubles in the measured spectrum (ripples). REW conveniently offfers a high-pass filter to fix that, but it adds a bit of phase shift in the frequencies of interest (5.5deg as 20Hz). I wonder if there is a better way to fix that.
For example, expanding the impulse response window helps quite a bit. But sometimes not sufficiently, it seems.
Here are some pics. This is just loopback, the ripples are not terrible. Real measurements are sometimes more concerning. Looking at the step response, it begs to have the slope subtracted (i.e., offset in impulse response)