How to equalize your headphones: A Tutorial - Page 5

Electri-Q should have come with a large PDF manual. I recommend that anyone who downloaded Electri-Q read it immediately, as it is quite informative.

Funny you should mention detailed, because I too feel that my headphones are actually more detailed after removing the excess treble. This probably seems counter intuitive and goes against what is normally accepted as fact here at Head-Fi, but allow me to explain: I believe it is due to the louder peak frequencies masking the quieter frequencies around them, making them more difficult to hear and obscuring detail. I also feel that transients are more defined now that there isn't extra hiss around them. When I hear the drum stick come down on a tom drum, the impact is now clear and defined, whereas before there was a strong hissy coloration muddying the sound.

Resonances are user/headphone specific, not song specific. You shouldn't actually use music to determine how to equalize. (Unless the problem was in fact caused by an actual headphone anomaly, then it's OK.)

Also, I was wondering. If I can get the tutorial to a high enough level of quality and comprehensiveness, could a mod sticky it?

SineGen is the best way, because you know exactly what frequency you are making.

With the sine wave file, the only way to know which frequency you are hearing is to use an audio editor with an option to display the waveform as a spectrogram.

Well, if people are following my instructions and equalizing with the goal of having a uniform response to sine waves, their house curve should make itself.