Thanks for the response. I feel your pain in that I've struggled with my new room for the last 3 years, and I know my speakers have sounded much better in my previous house. Have tried Sonex treatment products, but they are only able to control upper bass (not the 40-60hz region that is killing me.) Running the ol' Radio Shack meter shows some serious peaks and valleys that easily span 12-15db.
I feel sure equalizing out the room acoustics would yield a great improvement, but I'm scared of digitizing the signal. Probably just paranoid, and I am about convinced that the pro's would outweight any cons. Like the idea of the Tact integrated unit with DSP, but cost is a bit much. I may just cut my teeth on the more affordable Behringer for now. Thanks again. Matt
The Behringer is a great tool if you experience problematic room acoustics. It's best to use it digitaly but since I don't enjoy analoge without EQ I use it between my pré and power amp. I bought my speakers about three years ago after a lot of searching and listening.., then moved to a new appartment with a completely different acoustical situation. Tired of spending so much time on speaker searching and very convinced of the quality of my loudspeakers I decided to take a different aproach.., EQ.., the best upgrade / change to my system ever. I'm convinced EQ is the future solution to Audio Nervosa.., AN is fun when it's concerning carts but loudspeakers changing is pure horror. Acoustic is probably the main factor how your system sounds.., add for example somthing in the interieur and things can change quite drasticly. Check the Behringer out.., it might be the best upgrade / change you ever did.., have it modified on the analoge department and relax..! Every room has large bumps and dips.., 15Db + or - is not uncomon.., try to picture what happens if for example; 36 Hz is up 15 Db.., not extraordinary.., it will influence all the surrounding frequencies as well.. result.., muddy lower bass.., fatigue.., nervosa.., blame it on the speakers.., blame it on the amp.., WRONG.., it's the acoustics stupid.., ! Unfortunatly I haven't got great acoustics ( I like my apartment as empty as possible ) but thank God I've got a Behringer to solve a large part of the problem. By the way.., if money is no issue.., go for a TacT.., much better.., much more expensive or .., room treatment ( great panels in your listening evirement.., crazy ! ) .., it will in both cases cost 5 to 10 times more. If you have any further questions.., please ask.
Just curious as to your impressions of the Behringer Ultra Curve. I've been looking into getting some sort of EQ to even out some serious bass issues in my room, but I'm hesistant to convert my analog signals to digital and back. I also prefer LP to digital for the more natural, non-fatiguing sound, so I'd guess we have similar priorities. The only problem with the analog units I've run across (ie. DEQX, PARQ) is the cost.
I just don't trust the one review I've seen on this unit, so your comments would be much appreciated.
