marcan
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A headphone's coloration in the frequency response is also technically a distortion, and impacts the sound coming to your ear more than any of what you just mentioned.
Yep you'r right.
But my ears will probably accommodate to the frequency response more easily than the distortions I mentioned.
What's the point to increase the trebles if you are magnifying the distortions you just created with the eq.
So it's a tradeoff but if you want to use one you have to be careful by choosing a good eq while knowing their drawbacks.
For example a narrowed eq will create more distortions around its frequency. So narrowed boost are the worst while narrowed cut is less problematic than it's boost counterpart. Smooth and light shelf are the less intrusive.
I used eq as a mix engineer. But I tried several times at home on the music I listen.
First it seems better then each time after a couple of hours, I get back because the sound gets somehow fatiguing and I also felt that I was losing something...
So I use eq only on bad mixed/mastered tracks unless I avoid completely listen to this track.