Automatic Room Correction has won the Subwoofer Wars

Erik, measuring and creating correction filters manually is all but impossible. Check out my system’s page and I think you will get the picture. Designing target curves is easy to do manually as I demonstrated. Measurement curves are very complex. The computer can calculate a correction filter instantly where I do not think anyone could do it that accurately in days if at all. You are talking about thousands of corners each one having to be set manually. Just doing subs is a lot easier but you miss out on a world of incredible imaging as well as other advantages by not going full range.

Room correction has not won the subwoofer wars.

What it has done, is that it has subverted high quality acoustics application, room design, and system builder's base level skills, to being  'good enough for Mr Average'. Good enough for those who won't do it right, or can't do it right.

It has dropped the annoyance factor for those who are not going to ever be doing it right.
It is NOT correct, I repeat, NOT correct. 

It's akin to all the nannies and electronic additions to modern supercars, so that Mr average to poor driver can drive a $500k super or hyper car and PRETEND that they can drive.

It won the popularity contest for the middle of the audiophile herd who play in the home theater space. Nothing else.

Don't anyone here fool themselves into thinking it is anything else.

It's not a peak, not a note on perfection, it is the opposite, it is annoyance relief, it's a comfortable hole in the ground to circle around, like circling a drain....

How obtuse!      My only point has ever been that FFT based programs can window out the later arrival times of reflections and discern them from direct (speaker to mic) impulses (ie: when performing time/phase alignments between subs and mains, etc).               You’re trying to make the conversation about room/EQ measurements.       Twisting in the wind (deflection)!       Sorry, Erik (I’ll drop it, here).

Configuring a sub with digital bass management is not all that hard. Choosing the right crossover points and slopes is probably the hardest part. It helps if you can see them on a screen. Then it is all trial and error. Everyone has a theory but there is no single right answer. It depends on the speakers and set up. After this the subs have to be equalized so their response is flat at the listening position and finally delays set so that the sound of the subs and satellites gets to your ear exactly at the same time in phase. This require a full 2 way digital crossover. In my system the computer measures each speaker and automatically computes correction filters and delays. They are more accurate than what you can do manually.