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If you disable the Convolution DSP, do you get the same behavior?
just tried the vst3 plugin feature…. wow. That alone might make me leave roon…. the fact i can use a high quality tube processor emulator like the HG-2MS is insane. Huge bump in sound quality.
Such a good feature. Not sure if it is available in the normal audirvana version, but wow, didnt know if thats the case. Im sold.
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I pity the poor fool that is trying to use a graphic equalizer for headphone or room correction when convolution is the SOTA.
BTY the previous version of Audirvana has VST3 plugin support…
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man that vst3 plugin feature might be the single best feature audirvana has. The improvement in sound i can achieve using certain plugins is quite insane. Right now with that HG-2MS tube processor my system is literally sounding at least 4k usd better. if not more. I know foobar can do the same…. but streaming with that sound quality…. wow. I dont understand why roon does not implement that tbh
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The reason I switched from Roon to Audirvana was to gain VST3 support so I could use a SOTA convolver for room correction and add some old style mastering quality EQs that have some tube and transformer saturation to color the small signals to taste…
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its great, im installing a mastering analog eq as we speak
I highly recommend focusing on yourself and what you like rather than what others enjoy.
I ran Roon and Audirvana side by side for a year as well as Qobuz and Tidal for six months… Guess which ones I still use today…
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audirvana and qobuz of course lmao
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Gee thanks chris… Are you my new agoldenear? I am suggesting that a graphic equalizer was not/is not intended for room correction…
Try getting a PIR that matches my customized phones and captures my headphone playback system… Not going to find it in AutoEQ or the like… Got any great tips on how the average ‘fool’ is going to make a PIR with their phones without some hassle and a bundle of cash? 
I don’t need a FIR to tell me what’s going on… No matter the resolution of the measurement, I will always be the final arbiter of what sounds good to me…
I’m experiencing this as well. When I do a search for a song title, I’m shown results for Qobuz, Albums, Tracks and Playlists. When I click “See All” for any of these, I’m taken to a blank screen with only the column headers at the top.
Other than jumping into AS v3 for beta testing, I’ve continued to revert to v2 for my regular listening, and after I discovered this blank search screen issue in v3, I discovered that it’s present in v2 now as well. So my hunch is that something got changed in my database/settings after using v3 which is causing it.
Thank you for your welcome message.
I’ll give it a try. By the way, I’m a bit older. Above 11 kHz, my hearing has to work really hard. The AutoEQ WAVs are a huge help for me, and the little ‘TEUFEL’ on the MAC audio interface sounds really good to my ears. I’m not going to start doing my own calibrations. Best regards
Just tested it: without Convolution EQ, the tracks are played one after the other.
I accidentally left the loop on. The timeline runs through the song. Then the next song comes on, but the loop remains even if you pause and play again. Until you release the audio interface again.
The bin isn’t working…
You can transfer the AutoEQ settings manually to the Studio EQ.
This is generally the limits for most humans…
Once you know the response contour of your hearing and the contour of your headphones, it makes optimizing the equalization for your personal aesthetic, straight-forward.
This is an effective self-test…
As I have said before, I am no headphone expert… And you might see if you can create your own headphone EQ with this tool… Squiglink - IEM frequency response database by CapraAudio
BTY, I don’t know what a PIR is and a FIR does not tell you what’s going on it is a Finite Impulse Response filter used for a device or room correction and is used by a convolver in the small signal path to correct the audio specifically for that device or room.
Okay… The FIR filter is the result of a measurement that can be visualized before being transformed… A Personal Impulse Response (PIR) is a filter derived from a measurement using in-ear microphones, so to more closely represent the actual response of the pinnae/ear canal of the subject… A PIR could be used in the Convolver, however, these are not easily acquired. No generic test fixture with dummy pinnae/ear canal can represent those of the subject… There are data-bases of headphone measurements, however, in my personal case, none represent my customized headphones, nor my PIR with these headphones.
Some users need more room-correction than others… The need for functional and extensive DSP is intrinsically tied to situational acoustic implications… For instance, especially in the case dipole speaker arrays… A set of Børresen speakers with good electronics in a room may not need any correction physical or electronic DSP depending on the situational playback environment/proximity.
While this is possible, I’d love to see it in reality. All rooms have issues. In my experience the electronics can’t overcome any room issues.
I believe the relevance is a function of proximity… no room correction is perfect and totally representative of the subjective perception/interpretation of the listener…