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<blockquote data-quote="trumpet" data-source="post: 8501712" data-attributes="member: 628688"><p>Now that I'm at my PC I have more comments to add.</p><p></p><p>1. A 4-way front speaker setup is not worth doing for sound quality. Two good quality driver pairs, a mid-woofer and a tweeter, can sound awesome. 3-way in the front is pretty great as well, but the amount of supporting hardware goes up quickly. Tuning also becomes more difficult without an established process and the proper tools.</p><p></p><p>2. I and many other people do not think a 13-band graphic EQ is enough tuning control for an active speaker system. It's only capable of broad, system-wide changes. You will almost certainly find response issues with a modern RTA that the graphic EQ will not ever be able to fix.</p><p></p><p>3. Individual driver level control is mandatory since normally amplifiers don't allow gain adjustments on each channel. However, that still doesn't give you the EQ control you really should have to tune each speaker independently. That's where the real magic happens and a decent sounding system can go to the next level and sound incredible.</p><p></p><p>4. With a calibrated USB mic, such as Dayton UMM-6, and a laptop running Room EQ Wizard, you can build an extremely powerful measurement setup for cheap. REW is free, and the mic is less than $100.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trumpet, post: 8501712, member: 628688"] Now that I'm at my PC I have more comments to add. 1. A 4-way front speaker setup is not worth doing for sound quality. Two good quality driver pairs, a mid-woofer and a tweeter, can sound awesome. 3-way in the front is pretty great as well, but the amount of supporting hardware goes up quickly. Tuning also becomes more difficult without an established process and the proper tools. 2. I and many other people do not think a 13-band graphic EQ is enough tuning control for an active speaker system. It's only capable of broad, system-wide changes. You will almost certainly find response issues with a modern RTA that the graphic EQ will not ever be able to fix. 3. Individual driver level control is mandatory since normally amplifiers don't allow gain adjustments on each channel. However, that still doesn't give you the EQ control you really should have to tune each speaker independently. That's where the real magic happens and a decent sounding system can go to the next level and sound incredible. 4. With a calibrated USB mic, such as Dayton UMM-6, and a laptop running Room EQ Wizard, you can build an extremely powerful measurement setup for cheap. REW is free, and the mic is less than $100. [/QUOTE]
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