Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Active LFR1100s vs Full Immersive system

Trevor,
Looks like you're way ahead of me here. I've never used either miniDSP or hypex. I haven't researched the miniDSP. It just looked like an easy, ready made, solution for an active crossover ... nice to know about the noise floor issues.

Since Toole's book is the one on my side table I might as well finish it ... I'll have a look at David Howard's book ... although I think I'm already getting too deep as this is really a side topic for me ...

Cold fusion your main topic?

Tooles book is really good. Most books have a lot ofoverlap on the fundamentals anyway.

The book I linked had one standout eureka point: If you reduce the rt60 or decay time in your room lower than the recording’s global decay, yourbrain is foooled that the recording’s acoustic space is your own.

Exceptional hint for movie playback realism.

Perspicacious!

interesting, but intuitively seems like a incomplete statement taken on it’s own.

Mainly say that because a completely dead room would qualify... and I’m fairly sure that It wouldn’t be the best sounding room for 2 channel playback.

Anyway, I’ve read stuff on rt60 before ... and I think I’m at the point that I need hands on experience to drive these points home. Once I get back on the theater project I’ll start experimenting a bit (probably use REW).

Yep. Theory is great... in theory.

I can attest to the validity of that one.

I recommend AudioTools by Studio Six Digital if you are an ipad user. Very very useful plugins available. Costs $ but well worth it. Internal mic used and calibrated for. The difference between internal and external mic/preamp is negligible for home use. The app is well supported and pro grade.

I tried REW but compared to an app based solution it is less mobile and flexible.

hmmmm, I wonder if that app will work well with this

https://kjdelectronics.com/products...ablet-and-android?variant=31350692511862

No.

https://studiosixdigital.com/audio-hardware/generic-audio-hardware/headset-connected-microphon/

I would be using the LARSA plugin for speaker response tuning and the Transfer Function plugin for phase alignment between drivers. Pretty powerful suite of tools including Smaart. Industry tool standard.

Everything is on sale right now because of covid if you want the app and plugins. No affiliation.

Trevor, I bought AudioTools ...
Not the slickest app I've used but it's definitely more of a tool then I expected.
From what I've seen so far I can safely say I'm not regretting the purchase.

Thanks for recommending it.