Trying to calibrate my HiFi. Sonarworks fails to locate listening spot location.
Speaker have a distance of 2.41m to each other (between center of tweeters).
My listening distance to the speakers is around 3,20.
My listening position is 44cm in front of a wall.
Sonarworks seems to have an issue if the measurement mic is placed 44cm.
I am getting completely wrong estimations about the dimensions.
Distance to the left 6.30 and to the right 3.23 (measured with a Bosch GLM 50-27, laser based).
In reality: to the left 2.94 and to the right 3.21
Similar results if I measure exactly in the center (again with 44cm distance from the wall).
I experimented and increased the distance to the wall.
I found out then, that it requires at least 48cm distance to the wall to get valid results.
Another observation. When the value for the left side was very wrong (6.30m)
the software only allows you do adjust the value down to 5.67m. That is far from 3.20m.
So it is not possible to correct the wrong measurement for the left distance.
Another kind of annoyance is, that you have to perform one mouse click, to change 1mm.
No possibility to simply overwrite the number or that you can hold the up/down arrow and that a repeat kicks in.
When I repeated the measurement, the software lost the 2.41m between the speakers.
So I would have to perform 241 mouseclicks to bring this value from 0 to 241.
At the moment I am not really happy with the software and hope for fixes.
So also my other report, where the MADIface driver is simply and silently put into a blacklist.
This I really do not understand. Report the error, but give the user the possibility to simply retry after a reboot or whatever. But it does not make much sense to simply silently block the driver and nobody knows, why the driver and ports do not show up anymore.
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If the software measures a wrong distance between the speakers, or at the listening spot, this is usually a sample drift issue.
Most time this can be caused by having additional devices in your chain, causing some sample drift discrepancies. This can usually be resolved by submitting a direct support request so that we can have a closer look at the signal chain and advise on solutions, perhaps look at the logs, etc. You also mentioned it being a HiFi system, so if this is a passive speaker setup with a power amp in the chain, you have to be careful about the panning settings on the amp, and pay attention to any smart features on the amp (modern amps tend to have advanced clock source settings, etc.).
Other than that, there can sometimes be a particularly problematic screen monitor position (obscuring the direct signal path between the mic and speakers), although the software is able to work around such issues in most cases, and I do not expect it to be the case here.
I can see in your other post comment that you have already given up and initiated a return though - sorry to hear about that. If you ever decide to give it another shot and still encounter an issue, please submit a support request - it is a very rare occurrence that the issue cannot be resolved by investigating it in a direct support thread. Otherwise, most causes and solutions for the problem are documented here: Stereo speaker measurement troubleshooting guide