I have not yet connected the midrange EQ unit (whose signal output ultimately feeds the Acoustat 2+2's) to the midi sender (controlled by my home automation system) which selects the first or second EQ settings automagically, but I have set up the first 4 memories just like the bass EQ unit now (also carefully moving old EQ settings in those positions to the end of the list of settings, I still have plenty more memory slots until 99).
So even without midi, I could select the applicable memories by hand whenever I need to, which I hardly ever do anymore, simply by loading the 'Hotseat' memory #2 or the 'Movie' memory #1. Nowadays it's mostly on the Movie memory because that works best for background listening because in most other positions in the house (other than the hotseat position, which is the oddest, naturally) the Movie EQ has the flattest bass, eliminating a lot of boom, except in certain weird places like the corner of the kitchen where some of my equipment is that I have to fiddle with a lot, naturally.
At first glance of the RTA shown previously, the midrange EQ settings from 1kHz down to 20 Hz make no sense, if anything I'd guess they make matters worse.
Perhaps they are there because of 'seat' reflections. Here I might note that I've long intended to get a more acoustically transparent seat. In fact I bought the current chair in 2008 with the hopes of getting it modified to have a low back with a small headrest. I liked the 'feel' of the chair then. (Now it needs a bottom cushion because the bottom foam is shot, without a cushion you can feel the springs). I had debated getting more expensive chairs, but I thought that starting with a cheap one would allow me to modify it...
Well, I no longer have expendable income for things like that. I'd love to get a pair of low back felt padded oak chairs, but I can hardly ever find the ones I want online. And they only sell them in sets of 4, so the one time I did find them, I thought that didn't suit me.
Anyway, since I'm keeping the old EQ settings for the 'Hotseat' EQ for now, and sometimes I can retest those as well, and perhaps with a more acoustically transparent chair...
The best approach for the movie EQ starting point looked to be to simply remove all the EQ's below 1kHz. Then, when I get around to it, I can sweep that region and decided what EQ's are really needed for the standard 'Movie' position in the back loveseat, starting from scratch which is always best anyway.
But just in my 'sighed listening test' here (I know that I did the modification, so I'm probably biased in favor of it sounding better):
It sounds way better. The midrange is far more transparent. 'Palpable' as Harry Pearson sometimes said.
So we'll see if redoing the EQ's can make it even better.
At some point, it may be good to re-check the subjective effects of the EQ's above 1khz as well, which were designed by subjective effect...with the old chair and everything.
