^ Cool..keep us posted. I would like to hear about your findings.

 

i will post if i finalize anything...

well, i'm not using an RTA to do things, just my ears. and i'll admit that they can be unreliable. right now, i'm bouncing around... i will make some tweaks and changes that i think sound good, but when i compare them to baseline or previous settings, i'm not as convinced... so, i'm finding that 'the right' sound is eluding me more than i thought... i'll clean up one area of the spectrum, but end up washing out or over emphasizing others in the process. i'm mostly playing around w/ various musical sources, but i may need to slot out some serious time to work w/ test tones and pink noise.

bah...

 

Yep, not fun sometimes...

Especially 'cause CDs can vary so much as well....so you're forced to rely on the pink noise and let the CDs fall where they may!

 

I am trying to tweak my tuning, and it is getting kinda annoying. The apparent EQ in the "menu" option of the 9851 I have (the one with the treble and bass options that breaks it down into frequencies that you can either boost or degrade) is not letting my boost / degrade any specific frequency. If am trying to turn down the 15khtz option, but when I adjust 1 of the frequencies up / down, they ALL go up / down (7.5 khtz - 15 khtz). What is the point of this thing if you cannot tune the specific frequencies without the others being effected (it is acting the same as a general "treble" and "bass" gain, negating the individual listed frequencies)? It is getting damn annoying! If anyone knows of anything that I have turned on that I should not have turned on that could be effecting this, please let me know before I shoot my head unit!

Thanks

John

 

ain't that the truth!



and John.... *looks around*
umm.
check out this flash PEQ (single band) demo: http://www.jlaudio.com/tutorials/Parametri...ametric_EQ.html

now, realize that you've got only 2 PEQ bands on that HU. a low and a high. so, you're adjusting the frequency, width, and level all independently.

if you want to adjust all those frequencies, you need a more advanced EQ. as it stands, you're only adjusting 2 frequencies at a time. the ones you currently have selected. as you select different frequencies, the peak of the curve is what is moving.

don't worry... worse mistakes have been made here.

 

jw, look for a Q setting. I don't know if that unit ha one, but if it does, tighten up the Q and you shoudl see less of an effect on the surrounding frequencies.

 

At PJK3's request I split off his conversation with JW and created a separate thread called "JW's Troubleshooting".

Jim

 

Thank you much....

John

 

ok -- while i still haven't finished tinkering w/ my EQ settings (mainly, haven't had the time w/ the change in jobs)...

here's a link to DJWeaver's thread where he had his system in the S professionally tuned. lots of good EQ info in there.

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...dpost&p=5714284