Speaker sound quality question

[Holmz]

DSP, tuning, front end setup, install, are never the ultimate bottleneck in any system. It always comes down to the speakers

Assuming that the DSP, tuning and install are good, then yes, they cannot fix distortion is speakers.
But there is likely at least a few people that have good speakers and a bad tune.

The software allows you to select the mic calibration file, so I suspect that you might be able to use other mic's.

Where does one get the SW?
and does it run on mac OSX?

[jtrosky]

The software allows you to select the mic calibration file, so I suspect that you might be able to use other mic's.

Unfortunately, I just tried it with the UMIK-1 and it doesn't seem to work (I found you can download the software right from the Parts Express website). The software specifically looks for the OmniMIC and doesn't seem to let you actually do anything unless it detects the OmniMIC specifically. Unless I'm missing something...

I'll need to look into measuring distortion with REW I guess - just out of curiosity - have never really explored measuring distortion yet.

[Jdunk54nl]

We all do know that REW can show you distortion with sweeps too right? It is easy. Just do a sweep and the click on the distortion tab.

[Oscar]

We all do know that REW can show you distortion with sweeps too right? It is easy. Just do a sweep and the click on the distortion tab.

There ya go. Does REW let you export the data fro the harmonic distortion sweep as either a txt,csv,xls,or xlsx?

[Lanson]

Everything is exportable.

In addition to distortion plots, you can also do polar and waterfall graphs. Sweeps are the way to go, to get all the right measurements.




I love REW.

[jtrosky]

I just thought the OmniMIC software looked like another good tool to have. It seems like a very "clean" interface. Sometimes, having multiple tools that do the same thing can be beneficial.

However, it doesn't work without an OmniMIC microphone, so that was the end of that. :-)

[Queef]

Jdunk54nl ,

Is the 1.68 percent (2nd harmonic ) very noticeable ?

[Jdunk54nl]

That is my sub only sweep with no eq applied yet, so no. If you notice where the cross hairs are, that is at 28hz. REW reads the percentages based on the cross hairs. At 63hz, I have 3.77% (the peak area)

All of my other speakers are less than 1% distortion at their peaks for playable frequencies.

[Oscar]

Assuming that the DSP, tuning and install are good, then yes, they cannot fix distortion is speakers.
But there is likely at least a few people that have good speakers and a bad tune.




Where does one get the SW?
and does it run on mac OSX?

Seems the SW is downloadable, but obviously I got mine when I purchased the Omnimic V2 package. I don't know anything about mac's.

[Queef]

Holmz tuning is time-intensive with a "Payoff"!