Yes, I originally did it by ear, too (tweaking the EQ over months with DH enabled...). Sooner or later, most changes would only pick out flaws in the specific recording, so I had to confirm across a variety of other recordings (mostly high-budget soundtracks) to not make it worse (I used Voxengo...

A few months ago I found a recipe that you can use to make DH sound near-optimal if you know the raw frequency response of your headphones (I'm a scientist, you can trust me ;-).   Depending on the level at which you typically listen to music, you need to set your sliders to the difference...

Quote: Originally Posted by dongringo After about a week dinking around with FreeSurround, I went back to Channel Mixer. While I like FreeSurround with some tracks, it sounded pretty jacked up on others. For instance, Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere but Not Here: The picked guitar...

MusX pointed me to this thread. There had been some questions on the various surround processors available in FB2K. I am the last person you should believe in this regard since I wrote one of them (FreeSurround), but I'll try to be honest nevertheless. What all of them do is determine the...