Tagged: DSP

Your sub's miniDSP or app-based EQ can only act on a signal your streamer hasn't already mangled. Here's where network audio and bass management actually interact.

A cheap subwoofer with built-in room correction can outperform a pricier unit with no DSP at all. Here's the giant-killer maths on why.

DSP room correction and app-based EQ can't undo an amp-speaker impedance mismatch. Here's the actual engineering, and where correction genuinely helps.

Dirac, Roon's convolution engine, Audiolense — they all promise a corrected room. Here's what the maths actually does, and what it can't touch.

Why throwing more DSP or a bigger subwoofer at a bass null often makes things worse, and what actually needs to change in the room first.

Room correction software can flatten a frequency response, but it can't fix decay, timing or a bad first reflection. Here's where the line actually sits.

Modern streamers now carry crossover and room EQ duties that used to live in an AVR. Here's what that shift actually changes for your subwoofer.

A second subwoofer often solves bass problems that EQ can't touch. Here's why multiple subs smooth response across a room, not just at one seat.

Room correction promises to fix your acoustics with DSP. Theo Mensah explains what the algorithms genuinely solve, where they fall short, and when treatment beats software.

DSP can fix room-driven bass problems no amount of placement tweaking will solve. Theo Mensah explains what the tools actually do and how to use them without making things worse.

Room modes wreck bass regardless of placement. Here's how to use DSP equalisation to actually fix the problem — and where it can't save you.