Room EQ Wizard is a Java application for measuring and correcting room resonances. It includes tools for generating test signals, measuring frequency and impulse responses and automatically adjusting the settings of parametric equalisers to counter the effects of room modes. Contrary to what many believe, it is possible to eliminate the detrimental effects of low frequency room resonances at your listening position by using properly adjusted parametric filters. Music and movies alike can benefit greatly from the resulting accurate bass reproduction.
This Wizard is the successor to the TMREQ Wizard, a Java application written as a spare time activity whilst I was Technical Director of TAG McLaren Audio (TMA). Its aim was to assist owners of the TMA AV32R Dual Processor and AV192R in setting up those units' TAG McLaren Room EQualisation (TMREQ) filters.
Room EQ Wizard is a complete ground-up rewrite, adding the acoustic measurement and signal generation facilities the TMREQ Wizard lacked. It can be used to greatly simplify TMREQ setup, but can equally be applied to the setup of other parametric equalisers whether they be HTPC plug-ins or standalone units like the popular Behringer Feedback Destroyer Pro (DSP1124P and FBQ2496 are supported, including transfer of filter settings over Midi). The software is also handy for accurate Home Theatre setup and general acoustic measurement and analysis.
% java -jar RoomEQ_Wizard_obf.jar Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: roomeqwizard/RoomEQ_Wizard (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
Room EQ Wizard .req and .mdat files are not compatible with those from TMREQ Wizard
The Wizard saves diagnostic logs in the user's home directory, the location is displayed in the Help - About window. The logs contain information from the last 10 startups, including any error messages or warnings that may have been generated.
The startup preferences for the Wizard are, on Windows systems, stored in this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\room eq wizardThe whole key may be safely deleted if the Wizard is uninstalled.
With thanks to Dr Udo Zucker, without whom there would never have been an AV32R, AV192R or TMREQ
Special thanks to the beta testers Graham, UrbanT, Theo and Daniel for their invaluable assistance and encouraging me to get on with it :-)
Soundcard debug data is generated by a modified version of Florian Bomers' ListMixers class, available from the Java Sound Resources web pages at http://www.jsresources.org/
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