How to do room acoustics correction the easy way.

To do it thoroghly It’s more complex than that ....  Room correction software is NOT your secret weapon.  Alas, you can’t simply apply digital room correction to fix your acoustics. 

Room EQ can tame some issues, but it can’t correct for long reverberation times or comb filtering caused by strong early reflections (like those nasty reflections produced by speaker boundary interference 

To tame these problems you have two weapons in your arsenal: smart room layout and acoustic treatment.

For the latter, start  by mounting bass absorbers and treating your first reflection points. Then ideally apply  treatment to the ceiling and all walls of your room if possible with modular acoustic control panels, / sound absorption acoustic panels . Expert applications with all their professional gizmos instead of a DIY cheap as you can go approach is worth considering 

Number 1 - Treat the room first.

Number 2 - You'll get purer results if you apply corrections before the DAC.

miniDSP offers DIRAC Live in pre/post dac versions.

Best,

Erik

Here is a streamer/DiracLive unit that would go before your DAC:

https://www.minidsp.com/products/streaming-hd-series/shd-studio

Here's an analog DiracLive that you'd put before your amp:

Without doing my normal show, while "room correction" software works, it works MUCH better with proper room acoustic treatment.

With a very reflective, sealed room ARC won't work nearly as well as one with controlled reflections (absorption and diffusion) as well as bass traps.

Everyone is right acoustic panels may be needed. I went cheap route to test waters then went to thick Dow Corning type board. Cheap way to test is go to A/C supply store and pick up a 10x4, 1 inch thick insulation duct board for $50 to see what results you get. 10x4 will give you 4 2x2 panels for behind speaker and 2 for reflection points and 2 for behind speakers and 4 6x2 panels for the corners. If you like results buy some burlap from fabric store and keep what you have. If you want to go further buy some premade panels already covered or buy some thicker Dow Corning panels and do diy.