So I could use a bit of an education here. I see a lot of software acronyms and discussion of using them with the 10 band EQ in the 976 in lieu of built-in room correction. Is anyone willing to shed some light on that process and how it works?
For both the 1050 and the 975, I just used my trusty Radio Shack SPL meter and the test signals to set everything up and then adjusted the .1 channel "by hand" as it never really seemed to register properly with a test signal. I just fiddled with the sub level until it sounded good to me and called it a day. That's given me great results in our home so far.
How does a 10 band EQ change this process? What does the software do? Honestly, I'm enough in the dark with this change I'm not entirely even sure what questions to ask but I'm hoping this is a good starting point for a conversation on it.
It really is as simple as can be. The 975 sets distances for time alignment and levels for equal output between channels.
The 10 band peq (parametric equilization) now allows us to read and compensate for rings or nulls. A ring is a hot spot where a null is a low. Bass nulls have also been refferd to as a suck out as all the bass is sucked out.
In my room I have the left speaker in the corner which is the junction of two brick walls. The right speaker has the brick wall behind and a panneling wal to the side. To get the levels correct the brick corner speaker is a full db lower than the paneling wall speaker.
REW (room eq wizzard) is a freeware piece of software that when connected to a microphone reads the rings and nulls in your room.
Your rat shack meter is fine for most of what you might need. Specs say it should be good up to 3k with user reports giving it closer to 2k. Most any room issue you may have will be well below 2k.
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