SPL Meter for HT calibration

[skul82]

Hello,

I was planning to buy SPL meter for calibrating my HT. Can anyone suggest any places in Pune? or online?

 

[jagdish_p]

How do you plan to use the SPL meter ?
My understanding is that we need a signal generator for different frequencies with ability to feed each speaker individully , measure the response through a MiC or SPL meter and then apply an equalization correction. I feel it gets very complicated. Would prefer an automated correction to be applied based on the measurements from MIC inputs.

Does the below meet the above requirements?

IK Multimedia | ARC System 2

I am asking this as I have an SPL (radioshack)meter and could not utilize it beyond checking the SPL levels from the test tones generated by my Yamaha AVR. The YPAO was good enough.

 

[skul82]

How do you plan to use the SPL meter ?
My understanding is that we need a signal generator for different frequencies with ability to feed each speaker individully , measure the response through a MiC or SPL meter and then apply an equalization correction. I feel it gets very complicated. Would prefer an automated correction to be applied based on the measurements from MIC inputs.

Does the below meet the above requirements?

IK Multimedia | ARC System 2

I am asking this as I have an SPL (radioshack)meter and could not utilize it beyond checking the SPL levels from the test tones generated by my Marantz AVR. The YPAO was good enough.

Well, I was just going to use it against the test tones generated by AVR (Yamaha 299). I can use YPAO but i am not sure YPAO is gonna give accurate settings. I am not looking for a complext calibration, just a simple one.
I was basically only going to use it for Level correction. Now that I think of it, i will probably be wasting money on SPL meter if I use it only for level correction
How is your experience with YPAO? What tweaks you recommend after YPAO calibration?

 

[greenhorn]

if you just need to measure levels in a relative sense, then there are a bunch of android apps out there that should do the job

 

[jagdish_p]

Well, I was just going to use it against the test tones generated by AVR (Yamaha 299). I can use YPAO but i am not sure YPAO is gonna give accurate settings. I am not looking for a complext calibration, just a simple one.
I was basically only going to use it for Level correction. Now that I think of it, i will probably be wasting money on SPL meter if I use it only for level correction
How is your experience with YPAO? What tweaks you recommend after YPAO calibration?

As greenhorn suggested Android Apps are good enough for measuring SPLs.
YPAO does a good job of setting the Levels. The speaker distances are fairly accurate - except for the Sub where YPAO gives a higher distance. I remember reading somewhere that this is the way it should be for Low frequencies.You can do minor tweaks to the levels determined by YPAO based on your listening preferences.