Audioengine A5 eq settings? Share yours

[Jottle]

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....
 
 


 

 
 

 

[nagual]

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

 

[JRG1990]

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

 

[Jottle]

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

please elaborate

 

[Joe Bloggs]

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 The “on“ checkbox in your screenshot is unchecked

 

[Jottle]

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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

The “on“ checkbox in your screenshot is unchecked

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

 

[inoace]

With an equalizer, they sound excellent. Direct output ... not so much.