Joe Bloggs
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Whenever I mention the word 'equalizer' everyone seems to flee like it's a plague or something. I quote myself--this is part of my post that killed the iPod discussion
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Well isn't it true? Half the time when I see complaints about headphones/amps/source components it's 'too bright', 'too warm', 'too dark', 'not enough bass', 'too much bass', etc. etc., ad nauseum
Wouldn't a good quality / digital EQ be the most obvious solution to these problems? Instead what everyone does here is buy one headphone after another, one amp after another, one source after another until they find a good 'match'--bright-sounding earphones compensated for by warm amps and sources, vice versa, or whatever. (of course, there are other considerations when buying more amps and sources, but tonal balance covers a not insignificant proportion of complaints even in this department.)
To me this sounds plain crazy
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No need to be sorry The way I use an EQ is to rip the CD to wav, process the wav with digital EQ and crossfeed, and burn the processed wav back onto CD. This way I get to use digital EQ with any and all my systems, which, by the way, all have no EQ It's not quite convenient, but so far my most revelatory audio experiences have been through headphones listening to CDs tailored for that headphone I doubt this will change even if I throw big bucks to upgrade my equipment. Even the most expensive headphones out there have irregularities all over the place. Besides, to ask headphone designers to make a headphone with flat frequency response if hard enough--asking them to design a headphone that would also fit the way acoustics change from loudspeaker to headphone source is plain impossible! |
Well isn't it true? Half the time when I see complaints about headphones/amps/source components it's 'too bright', 'too warm', 'too dark', 'not enough bass', 'too much bass', etc. etc., ad nauseum
To me this sounds plain crazy
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