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Audioengine A5 eq settings? Share yours

post #1 of 6
12/8/11 at 11:30am
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So I've had my A5's for about two years now. As anyone who owns these knows, they are voiced somewhat warm, and the bass tends to be a bit muddy. I've raised them off the desk with a pair of speaker stands, but that only helps so much. I'm connected directly to my macbook pro, no dac (though it might help). When listening to music, I've played around with the itunes equalizer to get the A5's to sound more neutral to my ear. However, I was hoping some of you on the forum might be able to share your itunes equalizer settings here as well? I'm hoping to find another eq setting that makes these speakers shine. Unfortunately, I find that they really do need an eq for critical listening.  Please share yours below. Here's my preferred one so far....

 

 

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post #2 of 6
12/8/11 at 3:14pm

Just a remark: I´ve read, somewhere,  that equalizing must be donne reducing gain only,  to avoid clipping.  Afaik, it seems true.

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post #3 of 6
12/9/11 at 5:09am

You should use hardware a eq really ,especially with speakers.

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post #4 of 6
12/9/11 at 9:22am
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Originally Posted by JRG1990 View Post

You should use hardware a eq really ,especially with speakers.



please elaborate

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post #5 of 6
12/9/11 at 11:59pm
Nothing wrong with a software eq really as long as you don't drive it to distortion. There's a preamp slider on the left, if you‘re doing boosts you should LOWER the preamp setting by at least as much as the highest boosted slider to avoid distortion.

Also be sure to turn off the “sound enhancer“ in iTunes, it does bad boosting EQ and causes distortion.

Oh and are you sure you even have the eq on tongue.gif The “on“ checkbox in your screenshot is unchecked tongue.gif
Edited by Joe Bloggs - 12/10/11 at 12:02am
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post #6 of 6
12/12/11 at 11:04am
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Originally Posted by Joe Bloggs View Post

Nothing wrong with a software eq really as long as you don't drive it to distortion. There's a preamp slider on the left, if you‘re doing boosts you should LOWER the preamp setting by at least as much as the highest boosted slider to avoid distortion.
Also be sure to turn off the “sound enhancer“ in iTunes, it does bad boosting EQ and causes distortion.
Oh and are you sure you even have the eq on tongue.gif The “on“ checkbox in your screenshot is unchecked tongue.gif


Yeah. I have the eq off right now. The screenshot was just an example :) Anyone have some eq settings to share?

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