Please note USB mics, and outboard USB soundcards like mine, have a ADC built in. The less you need to correct digitally, the better.īefore adopting Acourate I was using REW, with a measurement mic and outboard soundcard. It is simpler because you have less freedom to customize to various system settings. In comparison, Dirac is not as powerful, it's a lot more expensive if you want to go multi-way, but it's a lot simpler to implement. There is no going back, though :-)īefore jumping into Acourate I compared it to Dirac. So now I have a 3-way active system with tweeter and midrange being in one channel and keeping the passive xo. Eventually implemented active crossovers (within Acourate) between subwoofers and the 3-way speakers, then added a pair of monoblocks and added another active crossover on the woofers of the 3-way speaker. Initially I only used it for room correction. If your computer recognizes your microphone as input device it is expected to work with DiracLive.I use Acourate. Can I use this microphone with the SHD and DiracLive?Ī: The DiracLive setup is initiated from a computer. Q: I already have a measurement microphone.
Both devices feature the same functionality in terms of signal processing and streaming. Therefor you can only connect a digital signal source on the inputs and the outputs require an external DAC for the digital to analog conversion. Q: What is the difference between the SHD and SHD Studio?Ī: The miniDSP SHD Studio does not have the AD (analog to digital) and DA (digital to analog) stage.
Dirac Live 3.x license (embedded in hardware).The miniDSP SHD Power is the SHD solution with an integrated, high-end stereo amplifier. This features the same powerful processor and extended functionality, but has digital in- and outputs only.
This full featured digital signal processor enables you to build and tune applications ranging from subwoofer integration to a complete 2-way DSP controlled stereo speaker system.ĭo you have the option to work without analog in- and outputs check out the miniDSP SHD Studio. The powerful SHARC processor features 10 PEQ bands per channel, a matrix mixer, compressor, limiter and crossovers with a roll-off up to 48 dB/octave. This allows you to playback music from local sources like USB drives and your local network, but also from your Tidal or Qobuz account.Īlong with the room correction and streaming functionality, the SHD is also capable of full DSP crossover / equalizer applications. Volumio is a widely used, open source network player. The network streaming is enabled by Volumio and runs on a quadcore ARM processor. The processed signals are available as analog (balanced and unbalanced) outputs and as digital outputs. Two analog inputs, three digital inputs and USB audio make an easy connection interface for your favourite signal source. While setting up your system DiracLive allows you to model a target curve, so you can forward your acoustic preferences on the correction profile.
For even higher accuracy we recommend the miniDSP UMIK-2 reference measurement microphone. Our recommendation is the miniDSP UMIK-1 USB measurement microphone. The measurement process is easy to execute, but requires a dedicated measurement microphone. The DiracLive algorithm takes multiple in room measurements of your system, processes these measurements and creates correction filters accordingly. The powerful hardware from miniDSP and sophisticated correction algorithm from DiracLive are paired for a perfect stereo room correction system. Dirac Live is the reference digital room correction software. MiniDSP has lots of experience with user-friendly DSP solutions, and the SHD belongs to the top of our DSP product range. The miniDSP SHD (Streaming High Definition) is a high-end signal processor that features DiracLive® audio calibration and an embedded network audio streamer.
Note: This product comes with a coupon (€9,50) for one free miniDSP plugin download and a DiracLive license. AKM AK5574 / AK4490EQ AD & DA Converters.
A powerfull DSP processor with DiracLive, Volumio streaming functionality and 32-bit AD- & DA-converters