Experiences by Owners of Lyngdorf Integrated Amps using the Room Correct feature

I heard the 2170 at a friend's house and we compared it against a Pass 250.8 and a xp10. I don't recall the speakers as he has since changed them. It sounded pretty good and tamed some nodes he has in his very square listening room, however it lost some soul along the way and sounded HiFi versus musical. He did the proper set up and measurements but it just seemed artificial. I don't know how to describe it better, but I bet you all know what I mean when I say that. That said, for the price compared to the Pass gear, it didn't embarass itself at all. YMMV, as in all things in this hobby!

I owned the TDAi2200 years ago and it was a very good piece of kit. No matter the room or associated equipment the sound was always improved when activating the RC versus running it in bypass mode.

The unit sounded good as a straightforward integrated amp, and became very good with the Room Perfect feature engaged. Unlike most room correction devices there's very little learning curve involved, which is nice for an older dude with a learning disability such as myself.

Expect the soundstage to open up in all directions and for image focus to improve. Expect better integration of lower frequencies, though this will depend on how you configure your system. If you have dual stereo subs and satellites the Lyngdorf unit is for you.

Here's a review of the older Lyngdorf TDAi

I was really keeping an eye out for one to come along at a decent price. I gave up and went with tubes instead. Still, room correction interests me.

I use an MEN220 (McIntosh-licensed RoomPerfect) in my rig and am glad I bought it; the RoomPerfect made a substantial difference in sound quality and enjoyment of the system - I would have spend too much time and energy on room treatment, placement, tweaking etc to get the same result. Perhaps a heretical answer around here, but it’s what works for me (more time on gear = less time for listening)

If you are a DIGITAL ONLY (or mostly) person and use JRiver or ROON. Then the Convolution engine enabled in both of those streaming client software apps should be better than ANY room corrections written into some audio gear.

The software used to create the Convolution filter for your speakers in your room is way more powerful than anything stuffed into audio gear, such as, RoomPerfect, SpaceOptimization, Dirac, Arc, etc.

Only problem with what I have suggested is that it is very difficult to use this complex software to create the Convolution filter. That is why I remotely used the expertise of a profession like Mitch Barnett of

https://accuratesound.ca/services.html

BTW - One of these days, I am going to get a speaker likely too big for my living room. If that is the case, I know I can call Mitch to create a Convolution filter for any amp. preamp, integrated, DAC, that I use. The filter is run before the music is streamed to the DAC.