Well, let me just say you're not going to be measuring a concert room or an amphiteathre.
These products were recommended by a proponent of room measurements and DSPing, so if these are good enough for him, should be good enough for you:
Dayton Audio EMM-6 Electret Measurement Microphone
TASCAM US-366 4-In/6-Out or 6-In/4-Out USB Audio Interface
I understand your need for validation from a specialist, but if you're so curious about measurements, and think of them to highly, what's $350 (actually it's even less) to spend to fulfill that need, even though there'd always be better and more accurate means to do the same measuring?
You know what would be great? Why don't you put your $350 where your opinions are, and also take up Synergistic's 60-day money back guarantee offer? If they're not measuring, YOU can do it.
alexandre
The Synergistic is $1000+ plus time involved and I don't want to damage my reputation if certain people found out that I was playing around with these things. If they want to send them to me for free, I'll take the time to play around with them with as much skepticism as I can muster and I will give my honest opinion of them. But, I'm saving up for a new office system so i'd rather save my money and put it towards new speakers, electronics and cables than putting little tiny metal dots around the room. Quite frankly, some of my friends might want to have me committed if I did buy the SR product. Just saying, to me those things seems similar to one putting tin foil on their head trying to protect themselves from radiation or whatever those kooks would use it for. Sorry, I remember reading a LONG time ago about these plastic ear attachments to help the listener hear better. Whatever happened to those things?
If I want people to think I'm falling off the deep end, I'll buy the Google Glass when they come out.
I'll wait until someone with some room measurement system and that system to publish honest measurements and maybe if enough people can prove there is a measurable difference, maybe I might bite down on the fish hook, but right now, I'm swimming away from it.