Can I tell how 'good' my speakers are?
Can I tell how 'good' my speakers are?
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Paul Drawmer

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5,103 posts

289 months

Friday 13th February
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OK. First off I'm old, so I will have lost a fair chunk of my hearing, esp. at the higher frequencies. I'm probably not 'that' discerning anyway, but I wonder if there is an Android App that will listen to my speakers, and give me a visualisation of how the response varies with frequency, and are both speakers doing the same thing?

I guess it would need to send reference tone to the amp and listen to the output, or something. You can tell I'm not really sure what I'm talking about.

For context I have a modest system with a basic Denon receiver driving a pair of MS10 bookshelf speakers and a lovely old REL Quake sub. These are about to be replaced with a Wiim amp Pro, and a pair of rather lovely old Ruark Prologue2s. plus the sub.
Then the MS10s are going in the Man Cave.

Does such an App already exist? This is for playing with, it's not going to be a professional investment!

NDA

24,600 posts

247 months

Friday 13th February
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Hi Paul.... have a look at 'room correction apps' on Google - there are a fair few.

Whilst they are designed to help refine the output via convolution filters (or whatever) many of them will give you a graphic showing the frequency response.

One here, for example:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/housecurve/id1470695...

Paul Drawmer

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5,103 posts

289 months

Sunday 15th February
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Thank you Neil, it sure helps when you know what you're looking for!