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MrBuddyCasinoyesterday at 12:09 PM4 repliesview on HN

Did you ever use Dirac Live and can compare the results? Hardware that supports Dirac is unfortunately very expensive.


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vladvasiliuyesterday at 1:08 PM

FWIW, I've tried Dirac Live and compared it to the correction suggested by REW [0]. In both cases, the measurements were taken with a UMIK-1, and the correction was done on a computer. Contrary to GP, I didn't have to fix borked components, just a random, untreated living room.

Dirac seemed to have a fairly heavy-handed correction. In my case, I only had fairly narrow frequency ranges that needed correcting, but Dirac seemed to move much wider ranges at a time. It's also nearly impossible to tweak; you basically can only increase/decrease "the lows" or "the highs". But maybe I'm missing something.

In contrast, the suggestions produced by REW were loaded in EasyEffects on Linux, and I could tweak everything to my heart's content. But I actually just left it alone, since it was good enough.

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[0] https://www.roomeqwizard.com/

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throwawaySimonyesterday at 6:21 PM

Ive done quite extensive testing with Dirac(with a MiniDSP Flex), rePhase, normal PEQs, BruteFIR, CamillaDSP etc. etc.

Dirac is the most user friendly of the bunch, but honestly once you limit the correction to below Schroeder frequency I cannot tell them apart. So for my systems I just stick to a few PEQs targeting the main peaks under 300hz.

SirMasteryesterday at 3:34 PM

You can get a miniDSP 2x4HD for like $225 that supports Dirac Live.

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acidburnNSAyesterday at 1:12 PM

I don't use it and so haven't compared. I'm interested as well.