RoomMagic, our new room correction for L/R X and L/R M active speakers, is out now in StreamMagic 4.5.0.
Every room shapes how your speakers sound. Walls, furniture, and your listening position all play a part, and you hear it most in the bass. RoomMagic measures what your room is doing and corrects for it.
It takes two measurements, and the app guides you through both. The first calibrates your phone's microphone, so you get accurate results whichever phone you use. The second, at your listening position, measures your room. That's the whole process, and it only takes a few minutes.
RoomMagic concentrates on the bass, where rooms do the most damage. Above that, it only makes small corrections. The aim is to get L/R sounding the way we designed it to sound in an ideal room. Headroom, dynamics, and the speaker's own character all stay intact.
Once you're done, you can pick Leaner, Balanced or Fuller bass and switch between them instantly without measuring again. You can also flip between before and after to hear exactly what's changed. In a tricky room the difference will be obvious. In a well-behaved room it'll be more subtle.
It's part of StreamMagic, so you get the full feature with no trial, no lite version, and no subscription. To get it, just update the StreamMagic app and your speakers.
Our Head of Acoustics Ollie Marshall and Acoustics Engineer Finn Alderson talk through their thinking in our new film. Watch below to learn more.
If you've got any questions, drop them in the comments. And if there's anything you'd love to see in future updates, pop it on our feature request board.
Find out more about RoomMagic: https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/en/roommagic
Cheers!
Liam, Community Manager at Cambridge Audio