Anything new with digital room correction?


Last time I tried DRC I was not too happy with it.
It was TacT Audio RCS 2.0, although it did the job and took care of LF problems, it robbed music of transients, dynamics and details were seriously affected.
Is there DRC that would allow you to specify range in which it works, for example deal with 400Hz down, and do not touch I any way anything above 400Hz?
sashav
Sashav.

PMC used ATC midrange in the past. PMC are absolutely excellent speakers. I think they use Volts on the woofers but the design is similar to ATC but with more bass (TL design). If you already own PMC then I am not surprised you heard no reason to change. ATC probably have the edge with classical listeners and PMC probably has the edge with rock (more bass) but it is indeed a close call and at the end of the day a matter of taste. I'd probably be just as happy with PMC.
Humps are 50Hz on left channel and 40Hz and 70Hz on right channel, quite severe, somewhere around 8dB

That is actually not bad at all, IMHO. If you tried to hammer that all flat then I am not surprised that it might not pass for an improvement. Of course, the nulls are the worst....as certain bass notes just disappear.
Yes, I have a couple of nulls above 100Hz, but not exceeding 3-4dB.
I bought 22kg of lead shot today, will try to play with mass on speakers and stands, as well as some further attempts at room treatment with homemade stuff.
Rives-

Your post makes it sound like Sashav and others would need new equipment which is totally false. Almost every high end CD player allows the D/A conversion to be bypassed so no one has to buy new equipment to use the Lyngdorf room correction equipment. This is no more complicated than using a digital out from your CD player which is usually toslink or digital RCA and occassionally XLR.
Sashav, a digital box like the DEQX can do a number of things that can not be done in the analogue domain. Well, some of these things CAN be done, but not without a lot of experimentation and a lot of extra circuitry in the box. If you compare a product like the DEQX with a Marchand XM144 crossover, these are the advantages of the DEQX:

- steep crossover slopes, up to 100dB/oct. Marchand can only do 24dB/oct and introduces phase issues. The Marchand's x-over point and slope can be adjusted by purchasing a card ($10) compared to a few clicks of a mouse button with the DEQX.

- group delay. Both products implement this, DEQX via your laptop and Marchand via a drop in card.

- room correction. DEQX can correct a near infinite number of frequencies. Marchand attenuates or boosts selected frequencies via insertion of notch filters.

On the face of it the DEQX is more flexible and easier to tune. However (as I have said many times) the problem with the DEQX is that it drags the overall quality of your system down. I have heard a DEQX with a high quality analogue source. It makes the turntable sound like a cheap CD player.

The biggest problem is (as you say) it robs the sound of dynamics and subtlety. The frequencies that suffer the most are the midrange and treble. If you could think of a way to use the DEQX only in the most problematic frequencies - 200Hz and below - you would have the best of both worlds.

I recently experienced an audio epiphany with the DEQX. I now recognize that room correction alone provides some benefit, but is nothing compared to correction of phase and group delay.

The other gotcha - DEQX is very system dependent. On my system it brought obvious benefits along with obvious losses. I would have to give up some things (transparency, dynamics, resolution) to gain others (coherency, accuracy). How much YOU benefit would depend on the balance of faults and strengths of your system. So I would shy away from making an endorsement of this product, or any other product.