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Hi mwc,

Don't wring your hands raw. I defer to Sushi's experience with the EQ, and I agree that since the chips are becoming very cheap, they could do quite a lot for room correction, although I'd be curious if, when you shift your seat to a different location, you'd have to re-do the correction for that seat, because everything changes.

Some of the most knowledgable designers around, including Kevin Voecks at Snell (now he's at Revel), and Ian Colquhoun (Axiom), Ian Paisley of Energy/Mirage and some other Canadian engineers experimented years ago with digital room correction at the NRC. The results were impressive, but it was too costly to implement at the time, and, in Canada, the project was abandoned because it was felt the speakers wouldn't be competitive at the prices they would have to sell at.

Consider as well, that I've never used the Pioneer so it may perform very well.

It seems to me that whether you have EQ or not, by shifting out of the "sweet spot" much is going to change anyway just by being off axis.

Even if one were to have the room treated professionally with something like "Echo Busters" and "Bass Traps", wouldn't it all be tailored to the sweet spot and much would change in this scenario as well? I guess we can't have our cake and eat it to.

But the great thing is that, in my castle, I don't have to worry about changing listening positions because the sweet spot is MINE baby, all mine!.

I've enjoyed using both the Pioneer MACAA and the Yamaha YPAO and have found that they both made a dramatic and useful difference but it's not perfect. Remember, this is just my 2 cents worth, and it's only what I've experienced in my room, in my sweet spot. Take it with a grain and listen for yourself if you are thinking about buying these products.