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Looking for advice and suggestions

  • Hello fellow members. I’ve just put my system on here and would like to get some thoughts on a few things. How does the speaker placement look? I am considering ISO acoustic Gaia absorbers under the Kanta 3s. With this type of room do you think they would be worth it? I also bought a U-MIk-1 thinking it was a better mic than what came with the Marantz 8805 and was going to use it with the audyssey xt32 room correction. The box says best used with REW or Dirac. Would using REW be better than the audyssey xt32? Thanks for your advice. If you can’t see my system please advise on how to link it to this thread
ronboco
erik_squires
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Use the mic that came with the Marantz if you are using Marantz software.

Room EQ Wizard is a toolset, while the Audyssey XT32 is an automated room correction and speaker calibration system. The first requires you to already know what you are doing and what your goals are. The latter will do this all for you.

Based on your questions, I’d say please just use the automatic setup given to you in the Marantz documentation.

Yes, strongly recommend the IsoAcoustic footers.  If you are going to use a sub, consider blocking the Kanta's ports before running room calibration.

Best,

Erik
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jond
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How do you like the sound right now? Just at a glance that looks like a ton of room treatments, possibly too much? Just throwing darts obviously I've not heard your system but you seem not 100% satisfied.
ronboco OP
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Hello Erik. Thank you for the advice. I will stick with the Marantz mic. Do you think I should consider footers for the 4 subs ? They do scoot around a bit 
ronboco OP
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@jond we did have a lot of reverberation that the panels took care of. Having no experience I was going off the room analysis provided by vicoustics. They recommended treating the mids and highs instead of the bass. I have been reading here that multiple subs helps eliminate bass modes. Is there a way to tell by listening if the room has too much treatment ? 
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