Best Audio Frequency Analyzer?

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Studio Six Digital on a recent vintage iPad works reasonably well.

You’ll need the app, one of their calibrated mics, and their outboard sound card to use the advanced functionality.

Exactly, you need all the ancillaries, it does work well to get you in the direction you want-- without calibrated mics & sound card its not ideal.

Lots of flexibility with it- however, because of the add ons with Studio six I liked the XTZ package better.

YMMV and all that.
 

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Exactly, you need all the ancillaries, it does work well to get you in the direction you want-- without calibrated mics & sound card its not ideal.

Lots of flexibility with it- however, because of the add ons with Studio six I liked the XTZ package better.

YMMV and all that.

XTZ or REQ are both terrific packages. Yes, there's a learning curve (less steep with XTZ), but, it's not all that hard (easier than getting VTA right!) and you'll learn a lot more about the behavior of your system in your room.
 

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This along with an i device should be plenty to do bass towers and other minor things.

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If you want "plug and play" (and have $300) the OmniMic product is what I have used for the last 7 years. Has everything I need and then some. You can literally be up and running in 10 minutes. I can't say that for REW (which is also an excellent choice but in my opinion and experience, not as easy to use out of the box). (...)

We need many tens - even hundreds - of hours of reading and experimentation before carrying any useful measurement and understanding it. Why debating the initial 10-30 minutes?

Please note that Ron wants to set acoustic treatments, not set up equalizers, AV systems or similar.
 

Jeffy

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Ron here you go. NTI XL2 meter and M2230 calibrated microphone. Cheapest price is from Markertek 1379.00 for the meter and 1659.00 for the microphone.
 

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I doubt you'll get much use out of it beside personal entertainment (and I don't mean for tuning the stereo).

Ron, I wish I knew you wanted a Phonic PPA. I threw mine out because it was sitting on a shelf doing nothing since I bought the iPad Analyzer program by onyx3 for $15. It's far more useful although quite rudimentary.

To be honest, I would love to use XTC or OmniMic, but these are Windows programs. Pity the poor Mac OS user! Does anyone know of similar programs that are Mac friendly?
 

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Ron here you go. NTI XL2 meter and M2230 calibrated microphone. Cheapest price is from Markertek 1379.00 for the meter and 1659.00 for the microphone.

Thank you, Jeffy! That is responsive my question!

Do you know how this devices compared to the Phonic in terms of ease-of-use and accuracy?


Awww, thank you, Marty!
 

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Thank you, Jeffy! That is responsive my question!

Do you know how this devices compared to the Phonic in terms of ease-of-use and accuracy?

Ron,

Unless you want to certify you system for laboratory or industrial use, accuracy is not the most critical parameter - high-end is not accurate per definition ... Any usd 100 calibrated microphone will be enough for your needs. Current electronics of analyzers are very accurate, the bottleneck is the microphone.

BTW, you need a sound analyzer, not an an audio analyzer as stated in the thread tittle. But perhaps you can tell us what you want to do with it more precisely. Otherwise the thread will have a very low signal to noise ratio.
 

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Ron, I wish I knew you wanted a Phonic PPA. I threw mine out because it was sitting on a shelf doing nothing since I bought the iPad Analyzer program by onyx3 for $15. It's far more useful although quite rudimentary.

To be honest, I would love to use XTC or OmniMic, but these are Windows programs. Pity the poor Mac OS user! Does anyone know of similar programs that are Mac friendly?

But Apple/Mac device users have the advantage of WBF's Channel Now LIVE on Apple News! • http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...on-Apple-News!&p=455361&viewfull=1#post455361
 

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To be honest, I would love to use XTC or OmniMic, but these are Windows programs. Pity the poor Mac OS user! Does anyone know of similar programs that are Mac friendly?

I run Windoze Apps--Adjust + /etc on my MacBook Pro with VirtualBox--easy peasy:D

BruceD
 

Jeffy

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Ron you want accuracy that’s the one. You’ll never have to look for better. You never find these used; what does that say.
 

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