I've been trying to plan out next steps and where to spend money for the largest improvments. I purchased the Mic 1st as I figured it would assist in determining subsequent steps. Little did I know, how involved some of the science behind room acoustics is!
The common work path I hear is;
1. Mic/measure
2. Optimize placement/equipment settings
3. Room treatments
4. DSP
I'm still at step 1. learning what these measurements mean and trying to determine the largest problems.
As far as 2. goes I'm going to have to live with lots of non-optimized compromises. The room is small and there's very few places to move things around. My listening position is against the rear wall. Front of main speakers to rear wall distance ~8ft. 6in. Or I'll have to come up with some creative solutions if the compromises are too large.
Not much to say about 3. as I'm still at 1. My main concern via treatment is targeting specific problems vs. just slapping stuff on the walls and calling it good.
I'm very interested in adding a DSP, the question is to go DIRAC or not? I see the miniDSP 2x4-HD was just released and and the miniDSP2x4-DL is on its way soon. Given the depth of the rabbit hole I'm kinda leaning towards a DIRAC solution. Either DSP would easily integrate with my AMP, the only bummer being I lose the use of the fancy DAC in my Yamaha. Since I have no plans on using DSD files or really HD files at all, no big loss. It's my understanding that HD files offer no advantage over 44.1khz/16 files.
I'm not seeing a download for REW v15.5 and it looks like I have v15.4 installed.
Am I fighting myself by using this integrated amp instead of an AVR?