Hi Bill,

Thanks for that excellent summary of the state of Digital Room Corrections available today. I agree with everything you have pointed out.

The room is 50% of the equation. Poor acoustics can make the best speakers sound mediocre. As you mentioned the first line of attack to tame the bulk of the issues with room modes is to use proper room treatment – address the first reflections from the side walls, floor and ceilings, add bass traps on the 4 corners of the room and deploy the appropriate diffusers and absorbers.

Digital Room Correction should be applied as little as possible to smoothen out the residual peaks and valleys to confirm to the target curve chosen by the end user to maximize their listening enjoyment.