Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers
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#2I wonder what are the differences between this tool and industry standard REW app - https://www.roomeqwizard.com/
Re: Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers
#3I wonder what are the differences between this tool and industry standard REW app - https://www.roomeqwizard.com/
Source code, for one.
Re: Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers
#4Newbie question: how do we know we can trust the microphone?
It sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to equalize speakers with an equalized microphone, but maybe microphones are simpler and can be assumed to be equalized ?
Re: Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers
#5Newbie question: how do we know we can trust the microphone? It sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to equalize speakers with an equalized microphone, but maybe microphones are simpler and can be assumed to be equalized ?
You’ll need a calibration curve for the microphone. Even of the same model, there is a lot of variance.
Re: Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers
#6Newbie question: how do we know we can trust the microphone? It sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to equalize speakers with an equalized microphone, but maybe microphones are simpler and can be assumed to be equalized ?
Not an audiophile, but one way might be tuning forks. That said, I would be super surprised if this was needed for high-end microphones.
Re: Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers
#7Newbie question: how do we know we can trust the microphone? It sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to equalize speakers with an equalized microphone, but maybe microphones are simpler and can be assumed to be equalized ?
You’ll need a calibration curve for the microphone. Even of the same model, there is a lot of variance.
There’s an example of doing this on the readme- scroll way down
Re: Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers
#8Newbie question: how do we know we can trust the microphone? It sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to equalize speakers with an equalized microphone, but maybe microphones are simpler and can be assumed to be equalized ?
Not an audiophile, but one way might be tuning forks. That said, I would be super surprised if this was needed for high-end microphones.
A microphone’s ability to reliably identify a frequency is excellent, even if the microphone is cheap, crappy and uncalibrated. It’s almost entirely a function of whatever clock is used to digitize it, and oscillator chips that are just fine are ubiquitous.
The issue is calibrating the amplitude response at a given frequency, and a tuning fork won’t help.
edit: those quartz oscillator chips have a lot in common with tuning forks.
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Re: Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers
#10This is very nice. I also appreciate the pointers to various equalizer apps in the README, I didn’t know a couple of them.