Solrighal
Headphoneus Supremus
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What headphones?
Good to hear the developer listens to feedback. I've not really got anything to complain about, this is by far the best music player on Android.
Since you seem to know what you're talking about I wonder if I may ask a question - what is Q slope?
The Q factor, or its slope, determines how wide the effect of the EQ will be from the selected center frequency. Without using exact numbers, as an example, let's say you set Band 1 to have 70hz as its center freq. At a Qfactor of 0.500, the effects of any boost or cut to that freq will be wider than when you set the Qfactor to 1.5. Also the effect is never the same as the center frequency, but the slope towards both sides just gets steeper at higher Q's compared to lower Q's. Think of a very low Q factor as having the shape of an Old Kingdom, pre-Zoser/Imhotep Mastaba tomb, while a very high Q factor at the same center frequency and boost level looks a lot more like the Giza Pyramids; somewhere between that you can have something like Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun or the upper half of the Bent Pyramid.
Edit - my Alpine car stereo has that option. Its not called 'Q' but its the same deal.
Already forgot what Alpine calls it, but yeah any receiver with a complex enough EQ would have that too, especially since Alpine tended to favor parametric EQs ever since the ones with the expanding faceplates in the early 2000s. In my car's set-up though I find that setting the time alignment properly does a lot more to correct the sound than the EQ can without T/A; of coeurse, an IEM I preferred for its fit and sensitivity with a bump in the lower region and a drastic nosedive past 12khz is nowhere near a huge-magnet Vifa tweeter made for home audio paired with Focal 165VR midwoofers, and neither is a smartphone's audio chip anything like the brute (but very clean) Class A/B amp I'm driving those speakers with
My head unit is kinda old now so I'm looking at a major upgrade. I'll stick with Alpine though as they've served me well thus far. I'm also looking for mid-range speakers in the back doors to add some body.
Sorry guys, totally o/t.