Automatic calibration?

[frasse74]

Hi :T

I have read that the automatic calibration dosent messuare correct
when they has manually checked it with a sound level meter
and corrected it they had a much better "sweetspot".
Has anyone tested it here,if so how much did the correction
improve your "sweetspot"


frasse74 8)

[Peter Nielsen]

The automatic level calibration is decent, but not perfect. A professional SPL meter will let you do it better. The speaker distance settings almost always need to be manually corrected (especially for the subwoofer, which usually won't be correct after running the automatic calibration).

Peter

[Chris D]

We have several threads here about the auto vs manual calibration. I myself personally use the auto calibration as a starting point, and then manually tweak the settings to even them out and make them more accurate.

The thing about the subwoofer calibration has also come up before--that's the one channel where the distance isn't quite the actual MEASURED distance, but the auto cal will do a much better job of figuring what value to put in there to make it sound most accurate.

Do some playing - you might find something works for you!

[Peter Nielsen]

We have several threads here about the auto vs manual calibration. I myself personally use the auto calibration as a starting point, and then manually tweak the settings to even them out and make them more accurate.

Chris, did you ever notice an audible difference between your settings and the C1/C2 automatic calibration setting?

Not counting the subwoofer calibration (which I feel always needs a personal touch), I never bothered to adjust the automatic calibration further. (I probably did it a few times when the C2 was brand new, but I soon got the feeling that the minor auto calibration post-adjustments that I had to do really did not make an audible difference. Disregarding the sub, the software does a very good job IMHO.

Peter

[Chris D]

By and large, no, I didn't notice a huge difference. I agree, that the software seems to do a very good job. Every once in a while, I'd notice that a setting would come back with a larger value deviation, but that was pretty rare. To be honest, no, I'm not someone that can really notice a difference between distance settings of 10 feet vs. 10.5 feet. I can notice gain differences a little more. So while my "tweaking" of settings to even them out did seem to produce a slightly more balanced result, it's been mostly academic.