trikos, thanks for the info and link. Very informative. For $99, it may be my next add-on toy.

I met a fellow audiophile locally at an amp comparison and he had just installed his IB. Very impressive. A few rattles to police but after that gets squared away, it will be nice.

Can you recommend a mike for PC to do the set-up?

Thanks,

b

Barnabas,

The EMU-404 sound card is excellent to connect a mic to, and has 192bit sampling. Very quiet and flat. http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=1766

Coupled to the Behringer EMC8000 measurement mic:
http://www.behringer.com/ECM8000/index.cfm?lang=ENG

Then add the True Audio RTA software and you are away to the races: http://www.trueaudio.com/rta_abt1.htm

By the way, these are all available for $99 bucks online.

hmm, maybe the 990 will come out for $99...

I appreciate the links! What about the on-line software that Behringer talks about in the FBD manual? I am assuming the RTA software is similar but better?

True RTA is one of many out there, SpectraPlus/RTA is more high end if you want to go crazy. The FBD one is limited.

I just found that True RTA was easy to use and had Mic Calibration built in for the EMC8000.

I have been using it to setup my new room (sold my other HT with the house) but got stuck cause I need a 990. No sense tweaking it till all the pieces are in place.

Don't know how much longer I can wait before pulling the trigger on something else..

I hate silent movies..

I hear you (no pun intended)! I sold off my Denon 3805 last week. I have 4 amps and my Denon 3910 waiting to be worked and speakers being built now. Still got a lot of stuff to do to the HT wall as well.

It's Anthem or Outlaw for me. Quite a delta in price! But the Outlaw is really too deep for my cabinet (I can fix that) and it could be obsolete within possibly 1 year depending on HDMI outcome. This is tough! There's always 5.1 analog outs.

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention. If you are using a mic like the EMC8000, you need to supply phantom power to it.

Good luck!

All this talk of tuning sub signals for the room looks interesting. I tuned my sub for my last house using test CDs and a cheap SPL meter, but just using the sub's bandwidth and cutoff controls. Somehow, I'd like to do better this time around

If anyone's interested, this is the sub I had designed and built, by Kyle Richardson, of Acoustic Visions. I am extremely satisfied with it, for the sub-$1000 (at the time) price.

trikos, thanks for the links . Question though how much was your RTA and where did you find it at . Thanks in advance .

E'pin Sen Ob,

Then add the True Audio RTA software and you are away to the races: http://www.trueaudio.com/rta_abt1.htm

and the price is free if you don't mind poor resolution. Otherwise its $99 bucks.

Trikos thanks for the intel. I have great eyes.