Analog room correction for vinyl

There seems to be quite a lot of dsp based room correction for digital but what are some analog solutions for vinyl systems?

There's a lot for digital because digital sounds so awful people are constantly incessantly running around looking for excuses and ways to make it sound slightly less awful. Oh wait, what's that? People are holding onto and loving and cherishing their digital gear for decades like they do with analog? No, that's not happening.

Another factor, its the numbers and graphs and stuff that sucks people into digital. Because it sure ain't the sound! Oh wait, what's that? The whole world is so convinced digital sounds good that when a record manages to sound pretty good they say it sounds digitally? No. They say digital sounds analog.

So anyway here's the analog solution to dsp with vinyl: adjust your VTA, adjust your VTF, adjust your speaker placement, move your subs around, move your listening chair around, try various acoustical treatments. If you were mislead into buying wire or anything else based on the band-aid (aka "system matching") approach, change them.

Not being smart. But if you are you will. This is also by the way the approach to take with digital. I mean, if you want to try against the odds to make it sound good, and not just look good on a graph.

A MiniDSP and Umik mic is probably your cheapest experiment to try room correction. 

As per how analog converted to digital then to analog sounds for you, well I personally think it defeats the purpose of vinyl (why not just digitize all your records), but at least you won't spend too much to find out.

The Mini DSP DDRC-24 unit includes Dirac software and works with analog and digital sources.  Seems a pretty good deal to me at $399

https://www.minidsp.com/products/dirac-series/ddrc-24

As an alternative does anyone use analog eq as an option?

Hey jgreen19,

I use a K-T DN360

millercarbon, since I can't believe your ears are that bad I can only assume that you have not had more than trivial exposure to more than the most basic room control systems/programs. It does not matter what the source is. We are not talking about CD resolution. The best room control systems ( really do not like that term) run in 64 bit programs 384 kHz. It is a lot more than just frequency response. As most of us know perfectly flat frequency response usually does not sound so hot. Those of us who have been working with this for a while use different response curves for different situations. As an example if the recording is to harsh (sibilant) I kick in a curve with a 3 kHz notch filter. All this can be done on the fly with a remote control. Most important is that the frequency response of both channels is exactly identical. You can not get the best imaging without this and there is no other way to do this. You will never get two loudspeakers of the same model to have exactly the same frequency response even if you put them in the same location forget about putting them in different locations. Once you are in the digital domain you can literally do anything you want without distortion of any kind. Subwoofer integration any other way is folly. You can not accurately time and phase align any other way. And, the fun of it is that you can see exactly what is going on right in front of you on the computer. You want to know what happens when you boost 10 kHz 3 db? Tell the computer what you want and have a listen. Any curve any cross over right at your disposal. A properly set up digital correction system will sound much better regardless of the program source. I think the problem is that with the best, most flexible systems there is a steep learning curve and you just have to sit down and work with it for several months to get fluid. You can also screw things up big time which I'm sure leads to some of the negative impressions. There are also other advantages. Having lived with this for 20 years or so I can walk up to a strange system and know to a large degree where it's failings are which does not mean I can fix them as usually in strict analog there is not way to do this. None of us used any of the analog EQ systems in the day as they all caused more damage than good. You can also set up a complex system without any analog crossovers at all and use any frequency or order you like. I do not have a single analog crossover in my system.