Hi Arnold You are right, I would like/prefer as you said to " fitting my speakers with their characteristics into my room". I'll do some researches how exactly to accomplish this. Regards Stefan 2013/1/17 Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:46:55 +0200 Stefan Stefanov > <selectany@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> My music server is headless (no graphical environment). >> I'm using mpd + JACK to play music. >> Now I need some software equalizer (JACK based of course), but running >> in daemon mode. > > My I suggest the possibility that you are looking at the wrong tools > for your problem? > > I think you are not looking for an equalizer. You are looking for > digital room correction (aka DRC) fitting your speakers with their > characteristics into your room with its characteristics and make it > sound right[TM] and without any quirky "characteristics". > The tools for this (as far as I remember, its been a while since I set > mine up): > - aliki to record the impulse-response of your setup > - drc to compute the correction impulse to be folded onto your signal > - jconvolver to actually fold your music signal with the correction > pulse. This will be your work-horse. > - And of course jack to plug it all toghether. > > The first two steps would be done on your main machine (but playing the > measurement-sweeps through your actual speakers). jack and jconvolver > would run on your headless music server. > > The results are far better then anything you can achieve with an EQ, > regardless how many bands it might have. An EQ can never compensate for > the time-effects of your setup. > > Have fun, > > Arnold > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
