Tangentially related, I recently had some hand-me-down high-end full tower speakers lose their integrated subwoofer amps. I bypassed them and wired in an external amp but people said the integrated DSP would be missing. That's when I learned about CamillaDSP [1] and CamillaFIR [2]. I got a calibrated UMIK-1 microphone and did a frequency sweep in the room. Then I applied the Camilla-computed FIR filter to my snapcast-sourced music stream on the Raspberry Pi 3 B I have networked into the living room. Now I have room-corrected and loudspeaker corrected fancy DSP and the speakers sound better than ever. Pretty fun, and very cheap. The Pi3 runs it using about 20% of its CPU. Not bad! I did the same process up in my office with some desk speakers and they sound great too (that time using EasyEffects to apply the filter in real-time rather than CamillaDSP).
Did you ever use Dirac Live and can compare the results? Hardware that supports Dirac is unfortunately very expensive.
FWIW, I've tried Dirac Live and compared it to the correction suggested by REW [0]. In both cases, the measurements were taken with a UMIK-1, and the correction was done on a computer. Contrary to GP, I didn't have to fix borked components, just a random, untreated living room.
Dirac seemed to have a fairly heavy-handed correction. In my case, I only had fairly narrow frequency ranges that needed correcting, but Dirac seemed to move much wider ranges at a time. It's also nearly impossible to tweak; you basically can only increase/decrease "the lows" or "the highs". But maybe I'm missing something.
In contrast, the suggestions produced by REW were loaded in EasyEffects on Linux, and I could tweak everything to my heart's content. But I actually just left it alone, since it was good enough.
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[0] https://www.roomeqwizard.com/
I also have a UMIK-1, and tried the REW route once, but it made everything worse. I suspect a lot of the know-how in Dirac is how to automatically get good results.
In my case, the setup is pretty simple. I have full-range floorstanders that only take a single input, and I mostly wanted to control some booming in my listening position. So there's no crossover to handle or anything fancy.
Maybe for more involved situations Dirac does a better job, but, in my case, it didn't really solve anything. Also, I see they now have this newer "bass control" thing, and it's not clear if my version had it when I last tested it (around November 2025).
I don't use it and so haven't compared. I'm interested as well.