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Digital Room EQ Behringer DEQ2496
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I've no doubt room acoustics are waayyy overlooked by audiophooles. The best sound I've ever heard is in my own room which is LEDE with bass traps. The DEQ2496 may be my next purchase due to the fact it has digital in and out and is very flexible at a very good price. It's pretty amazing how important the lowly frequency response is. Everything is ruler flat til you get to your room and speakers. Unfortunately I think people upgrade electronics and wire trying to resolve room issues. Glad the word has been getting out. I know I spent too many years in ignorance regarding this. Unfortunately the magazines can't push it too much as there's not enough to sell and certainly you can't just keep going on Audiogon and upgrading, nor need to.
that is interesting
I use a ocatve equalizer to tame a 60 Hz (or close) room resonance myself and have been looking at that behringer. I use several other behringer products and think they are well built. Thanks for the heads up...
You should. An octave equalizer is insufficiently precise for this purpose. Its best use is as a tone control.
Kal
Is nobody troubled by the fact that Behringer typically has no R&D costs except taking the lid off of existing products made by others?
Uli Behringer has shown repeatedly that he is not only a theif, but that he has absolutely no remorse about it.
Just say no.
who'd he steal it from?
I also bought a Behringher DEQ2496 and got rid of a huge whole in my rooms response along with a couple of peaks caused by room modes. Verified my rooms response using TrueRTA on my laptop. Same results as I got using the Behringer. Even my wife who normally claims to not be able to hear any detail, hears a major improvement.
This unit will not fix any problems with RT60 problems or other timing based problems.
Get your room as good as you can and then add this unit.
Let it RANE Let it RANE www.rane.com
Couldn't agree more. For sweet spot correction it is very effective. It helps me with two huge bumps - 46hz and 130hz. I also use an RTA to get it right. Additionally, other than some added noise I can only hear close to the speaker, I can detect no negative effects.
But on the negative side I started having problems with power up displaying a fatal error code 5. Cycling the power on and off would eventallaly cause the unit to come up correctly. Took it in for warranty repair. Was in the shop for 4 weeks. Got it back, new processor board, worked great, for two days. Then started having problems with power up again. This time the power up error was "boot loader not found". Called Behringer again and they were very apoligetic and paid for a UPS pick up of my unit and are supposed to send me a new replacement. Not sure if I should be impressed or pissed.
I have the FBQ-2496 - got it used for $100. No problems. If you use it for what it is meant for - sweet spot, fine tweeking, after the set up and room treatments are in - then it works great. Adds a small amount of noise. Only audible when very loud or close to the speaker. (a word on room treatment - to be honest I don't treat the bass as much as I could - a cost/space issue)
Also - use an RTA or something to get it right. Make the tweeks as preccide/narrow as possible. Also - its best for fixing humps - not so good for dips.