room measurement

Hi ,

At the NAS I heard / saw the XTZ room analysis software.

I was very impressed - it graphically plots delay, frequency response of your room. You can move speakers around, add room treatments and re-measure etc.

However, having looked at it a little more here -

http://www.homecinemacentral.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=2160

It appears only to really measure up to 250hz, and is therefore clearly aimed at subwoofer integration rather than whole frequency.

I have 'CARA' but this is 'guestimating' rather than measuring in real-time.

What do people think is the best and cheapest full frequency measurement software/mic combo? (for the non-pc expert..important point this!.. I am no pc expert)

Cheers,

 

It have the XTZ RA system.

It really measures out to 20kHz. With the microphone 1 m from my ESL-63s (to suppress room influence) I could get frequency curves that look a lot like the ones seen the 63's reviews in the 80s ;-)

The XTZ system is quite handy. A bit of a pity that it is a closed system, i.e. you can't use the sound card for something else, nor can you use the software with alien input signals, but I guess that is the price to pay for its ease of use. Also a pity it doesn't work with Win 2000, as I don't have a spare XP laptop.

 

Hi Werner - all of the reading I'm doing says just to 250hz?

Is this wrong then? (I will speaker to a shop selling it ) and probably buy it then.

Cheers
Chris

 

Get ARTA, an affordable soundcard and a Behringer ECM8000.

Before you get the hardware you could download ARTA and have a play / read of the help files.It's quite easy really. The hard bit is understanding what it tells you

http://www.fesb.hr/~mateljan/arta/download.htm

http://www.dv247.com/computer-hardw...-bus-powered-preamp-and-audio-interface--9473

http://www.dv247.com/microphones/be...tional-measurement-condenser-microphone--5869

 

Hi Simon

The mic and recording pre are similar money to the XTZ package. Does the package you're reccomending have any extra features?

Thanks,
Cheers
Chris

 

I use Room Equalisation Wizard.

It does the job and is free

 

I've had 2 offers from people to lend me a mic setup when I move home from people on ZG

What a nice forum I frequent - thanks - you guys know who you are

I will sit on my wallet and spend it getting drunk with hot women instead.

 

ARTA does pretty much everything. But there's a bit of a hill to climb to get confidence that it's telling you what you think it is.

I've used it to measure differences resulting from crossover component changes, but I'm not sure about the absolutes.

Anyway if you can find alternative justifications for the sound interface then the cost boils down to the mic (which you can borrow...).

Paul

 

Same here it's neat and wonderful package with nice features.