Free is only better than $300 if they are equivalent solutions. They aren't.
Two weeks ago my brother-in-law brought in his DEQ9624 and reference mic to test my SB setup. I have SB3 feeding a small Soundcraft mixer with Behringer 2031A self-powered monitors and a pair of the matching powered subwoofers. We spent an afternoon listening, testing, moving things around the room and adjusting the settings in the monitors. In the end we confirmed that the admitedly inexpensive Behriner monitors are relatively flat from 100hz to 18khz, with a little peak 18-20khz. Sufficiently flat that purchase of a DEQ myself seems unwarranted. The various adjustments on the monitors provided more than adequate control to flatten everything our. Then adjust "to taste" a little bit. The reference mic doesn't respond well below 100hz so the DEQ really can't be used to tune a subwoofer setup. All in all I was very pleased with the measured performance of the Behringer stuff. Not bad for an investment of <$1000. As for the DEQ, it certainly looks like a nice box. It's not even a bad value. It would benefit from having an integrated PC interface, even a web based set of controls. Perhaps someone will create a similar device on a PCI card...or even USB 2.0 interface? That'd be very nice. It seems clear that the same sort of DSP that one finds in the DEQ9624 could easily be deployed in other solutions, perhaps with better UI or wider range of functions. Michael -- mgraves ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mgraves's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4078 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
