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Digital room correction

When will there be a simple, affordable 1 box solution where digital room correction can be dropped into any 2 channel system? A number of years ago, I owned a McIntosh MEN220 which was a really cool solution, it worked reasonably well and for the time it was introduced, it checked most of the boxes off. The digital technology inside that piece of gear was state of the art 10 years ago (24/96) but when is there going to be an update or an alternative solution?

I don’t really keep up with this stuff so please forgive me if there has been something introduced. I see a good part of this type of technology now in most decent subwoofers. It would be really cool if you could drop something into a tape loop on a preamp if it exists. Thanks in advance.
ghasley
yyzsantabarbara
4,903 posts
 
BTW - I should have added that the MAC Men220 is a implementation of Lyngdorfs RoomPerfect. This feature seems to be not being available anymore from Lyngdorf as a single room correction only unit. MAC still sells the MEN220.

Here is a good review of the Linn SELEKT DSM that I think explains really well the capabilities of the SPACE OPTIMPIZATION feature available on the Linn.

https://www.soundstageaustralia.com/index.php/reviews/282-linn-selekt-dsm-katalyst-network-music-player

I learned something new today from this thread, the SELEKT DSM has the following:

  • Analogue outputs for connection to pre- or power amps

https://www.linn.co.uk/sources/network-music-players/selekt#selekt-dsm

denman
112 posts
 
How about a Copland DRC 205 if you can find one. Seems like a very simple solution. Altronics Stereo 2000 in Toronto carries it.

           Denman
erik_squires
16,156 posts
 
Vendors I can think of off the top of my head:
  • miniDSP
  • Lyngdorf
  • DSPeaker
  • Anthem
mike_in_nc
1,155 posts
 
For an all-digital system, the miniDSP SHD Studio should suit your needs. It is digital in, digital out, and can be dropped into a system while leaving the rest of it intact.

For a system with analog sources, it’s more complicated, because there have to be ADC and DAC stages somewhere, so dropping a box into "any system" may not be the optimal way of doing this. It reduces the number of conversions to use DSP that is built into a DAC-preamp, like the DSPeaker X4, Anthem STR, or miniDSP SHD (not the Studio version), to name just a few.

You mentioned sample rate. I recently got the Anthem STR Preamp as my third or fourth preamp with DSP. The DSP sounds cleaner than previous models to me. I don't know how much of that is due to using 192 kHz as the DSP frequency, and how much is due to other improvements over past models. A long-distance friend with the X4, which I believe does DSP at 96 kHz, says that it, also, sounds better than older units to him.
austinbob
235 posts
 
I own the Lyngdorf 3400 and Room Correction is a big deal. The Lyngdorf is an integrated and has a DAC and many other features. I’m very happy. 
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