I'd recommend trying a few different selections on the "Flatness" menu. With flatness=10, the EQ target curve is whatever was selected when the correction filters were built (generally flat-in-room, or near to it). With flatness=0, the EQ target curve is fairly close to the uncorrected room response. So try a value in the range 3 thru 7, see whether it sounds more lifelike.
With some types of speakers and room setups, room correction is not an obvious improvement. I heard a pair of Zu Definitions "before and after": the "after" sounded fairly lifeless in comparison. More accurate in some ways, but ess lively. Now I'd blame that the speakers, but of course the "before" sound is really quite musical in this case - even if it's far from "flat". Phil re: flat response: the problem here is that the reverberation tail you hear from the room is usually tilted toward the higher frequencies. So optimizing for a flat "direct" (anechoic) response is ideal, but depending on the dispersion pattern of the loudspeakers and the amount of room reverb, this can sound awfully wrong. Hence the target curves such as B&K, which roll off the top end of the direct sound a little. One way to get a properly accurate balance between direct and reverberant sound is to remove the reverberant sound: completely deaden the room, or to use highly directional loudspeakers (big horns, for example). Neither of these seemes to be a particularly popular option nowadays... -- inguz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ inguz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35615 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
