Spectrum Analyzer

[joeparaski]

I've been looking into these things as a way to "tweak" my system to improve the sound. These are a couple of the units I'm looking at:

http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1735

and

http://www.phonic.com/en/testers/paa3.html


I was wondering if any of you folks have experience using these tools and if there are any other units I should be considering.

I'm assuming that the terms "Spectrum Analyzer" and "Real Time Analyzer" mean the same thing.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

Joe

[george daniel]

Tom(trietz) has some sort of gizmo,,IIRC it's the velodyne SMS system,, far too complicated for me. Good luck,, I'm "old school",,guess I need to get my learn on.:)

[mhardy6647]

Yes a spectrum analyzer and an RTA are most likely doing the same thing. Analysis is one thing; correction another.

How about one of these?
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=248-661

http://www.parts-express.com/images/item_large/248-661_L.jpg

Cheap 'n' cheerful. The original version was well-reviewed by audioXpress magazine quite a few years ago.
http://www.audioxpress.com/reviews/media/203hansen2196.pdf

[Joe08867]

Had one of these for the band I was in. It worked wonders on the sound in certain rooms.

I haven't tried it in a home setting but may just give it a try at some point.

[jcaut]

It would require some additional hardware, but would this do what you want?

http://www.hometheatershack.com/roomeq/

I build DIY speakers and I used the calibrated measurement mic and preamp, etc. that I already had, but the program itself is free. I've used it with some success (in conjunction with a Behringer FBQ24/96) to tame some response issues in a church-sound application I was working on. It's been a while and I can't remember exactly how it worked, though. I never used it at home.

Jason

[thsmith]

It would require some additional hardware, but would this do what you want?

http://www.hometheatershack.com/roomeq/

I build DIY speakers and I used the calibrated measurement mic and preamp, etc. that I already had, but the program itself is free. I've used it with some success (in conjunction with a Behringer FBQ24/96) to tame some response issues in a church-sound application I was working on. It's been a while and I can't remember exactly how it worked, though. I never used it at home.

Jason

+1 for Room EQ Wizard (REW) very useful tool. RS SPL works fine up to 3khz anything higher need to look at ECM800