Room correction
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PEQ is a bit basic, time domain is superior method of EQ. Anthem ARC, Dirac etc
Hello Wiim.. How do i apply for the beta program to test the Android App with RC ?
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Raise a ticket thru the settings/ feedback section in the app
How do I join the beta testing?
My wife has the iPhone 14 so am able to access RC with her phone so I have tried it out some. Thanks
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You’re not obliged to use it but some have found it beneficial, external calibrated mics or not. However I believe the characteristics of iPhone and iPad mics are generally understood so perhaps that’s already taken into consideration.
Iphone mic isn‘t poor at all. Mentioned in other threads that e.g. it is partly certified by swiss local authorities to do environmental sound measurements for legal purposes…
What's your definition of room correction, then? We have a two channel setup here, where the left and right speaker are usually placed equidistant in the MLP. The only thing that might need adjustment in the time domain is the subwoofer.
WiiM do not attempt to set that delay automatically, but you can adjust it manually . They are in good company keeping it like thata. It's e.g. the same with $$$$ stereo amplifiers sold by Lyngdorf.
If the speaker has time domain issues, one might try to solve this using DSP, but it could hardly be called room correction then.
This is the same issue for all products and has been discussed over and over again. We don't need absolute calibration, but we do need a calibration for linear response, yes.
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“Looking a gift horse in the mouth” has sprung to mind on several occasions in the forum when free upgrades to very modestly priced streamers like the Pro and Plus are criticised and negatively compared to software costing three or four figure sums. But I guess that’s human nature
You are right, of course and you know about my early love for the WiiMs. But permanently repeated view: cheap = good, a bit more expensive = not so good, expensive = bad and very expensive = the devil is in my opinion a bit too narrow“Looking a gift horse in the mouth” has sprung to mind on several occasions in the forum when free upgrades to very modestly priced streamers like the Pro and Plus are criticised and negatively compared to software costing three or four figure sums. But I guess that’s human nature
My understanding is that iPhone mics have a quite consistent frequency response, generally speaking.
This allows a quite consistent calibration in the apps that use them: this is the case in HouseCurve and the WiiM Home app, for example.
On the other side, mics that have an individual calibration file, such as umik1, need a way to upload their calibration file to the apps that use them: this is indeed the case for HouseCurve, but unfortunately not for the WiiM Home app, at least at the moment.
So, IMHO, comparing today the results of RC in the WiiM Home app between iPhone mics (for which the app is calibrated) and umik1 (for which it is not) is moot, until the upload of individual calibration files will be possible.
Just my humble, and probably wrong, opinion...
You could compare REW UMIk response, to the Wiim app response, overlay the two/ rescale to fit, and see how far the Wiim results are.
At the moment, you cannot obtain or save the Wiim app response, but only briefly see it just after applying RC.
