Hi, guys,
finally, my Arc system 2 arrived and I'm excited to install it.  I read all I could about ARC there's in the forum but still have some doubts.  I have a real small room (2.2m x 2.2m) full of shelves on the walls; the desk (where all my stuff is: CPU, 2 video monitors between the speakers, the A-300 keyboard, etc.) is in one side of the room behind the wall and there's a bookshelf at the right of the listening point.  The room is small but I have a good space to my chair and to apply the triangular distance to the speakers.  My doubts are:
1) During the setup of the Arc system software do I leave the chair inside the room?
2) Where is the best place to stay positioned during the overall process of measurement?
 
Thanks a lot!
Ane Atsuko

1) The chair should stay in the room. The idea is to let ARC "see" the room just the way you will be using it, as much as possible.
2) When I set up my room, I would crouch down behind the chair while the test tones were being generated, trying to make my body's aural fingerprint in the room as small and inconsequential as possible. Other people may have other ideas about that.
 
Good luck getting things set up. If you take your time and do it very precisely and correctly, you won't be disappointed. I know that I am very happy with the results I got.

I think that is correct. Leave the furniture as is... you need to move away from the seated position so ARC can properly read the room. One would think you would need to be seated there but apparently not.
 
It should tell you in the instructions.

I'm pretty sure our very own Danny Danzi recently posted a link to his instructions to set ARC up correctly. Worth a search I'd say. I would find it myself but on phone with unreliable signal at the mo.

Bibs

wizard71
I'm pretty sure our very own Danny Danzi recently posted a link to his instructions to set ARC up correctly. Worth a search I'd say. I would find it myself but on phone with unreliable signal at the mo.

Bibs

Hi, Bibs,
I think I've read everything Danny's posted about ARC but didn't find anything about my doubts but Ptheisen and Guitarhacker already helped me a lot.
Thanks!

FWIW: If you want ARC to read the room as you will using it, why not sit in the chair while taking measurements? You could even try it both ways, save the results and see which works best.
 
Rocky

bluzdog
FWIW: If you want ARC to read the room as you will using it, why not sit in the chair while taking measurements? You could even try it both ways, save the results and see which works best.
 
Rocky

Got this off the web so not sure what 1/10 is referring to and have not used the above mentioned analyzer but don't understand what would be gained by not sitting in your chair. Unless the coefficients are so insignificant in relation to other materials as to be of no consequence.
 
Absorption coefficients
 

ptheisen
1) The chair should stay in the room. The idea is to let ARC "see" the room just the way you will be using it, as much as possible.
2) When I set up my room, I would crouch down behind the chair while the test tones were being generated, trying to make my body's aural fingerprint in the room as small and inconsequential as possible. Other people may have other ideas about that.
 
Good luck getting things set up. If you take your time and do it very precisely and correctly, you won't be disappointed. I know that I am very happy with the results I got.

Ditto.
Good question tho.
 
Mike

Guys,
thank you very much for the replies!  Tomorrow will be the big day!! 
Atsuko

So given that the more accurate the measurements are, the better the result, how do you guys go about accurately measuring each point with a chair in the way?
I need to redo mine as I've moved things around in my studio. My previous effort involved laying an accurately measured grid out on the floor and hovering the mic on a boom stand directly over each point. It does make more sense to leave the chair in the room providing each point can be measured accurately.

Bibs