EQ on Ipod?

[Mors]

I've got a new toy - RMAA.

I started playing with it last night and seeing what sort of graphs were produced from my players, and what graph they produced with my favourite EQ set.

With EQ on the Clix and D2 there was an obviously bump on the bass, which sounds great to my ears. Whereas the best sound I could get out of the Zune was flat with no EQ, which sounded pretty good.

BUT

The EQ on the Zune was pretty grim, the presets were poor. Whenever I tried one of the presets (which all sounded worse than the flat) on the Zune, the graph in RMAA dropped below the linear graph for flat with no EQ? There seemed like no way for me to bump the bass on a Zune?


So that made me wonder, from what I've read, the output on the Zune's and Ipod's are virtually identical and linear, but does the Ipod allow you to bump the bass with any presets? If you want more bass out of a Zune/Ipod, do you have to buy an amp?

 

[BRND]

I have an itouch and it only has three presets that don't sound worse than flat eq. The classic and jazz presets give more bass, and with acoustic the sound sounds much more clear (I use this one). With every other preset there's heavy distortation and hiss. O except for rock, but that doesn't seem to chance anything at all, sounds just the same to me.

 

[shigzeo]

the zune and ipod and every other dap should look exactly the same on graphs if unloaded. sometimes there are small differences. they should be flat from 20-20 000 with a little drop off around 19 ~000.

loaded is where the differences lie.

as for amp: you only get bass from an amp if a. the dap has massive drop outs of bass when driving headphones and needs the amp or the amp has a bass accent switch.

if the player is not sufficient to drive the phones (in most cases probably in nearly all) then you will probably get better bass but it is not always detectable.

 

[qusp]

if you do find one, do not bump the bass, bring everything else down AKA subtractive EQ. if you add to the bass there is much more chance of clipping. I think this is why most daps EQ clips; because they have poorly designed presets. BTW anything that supports rockbox will allow you to do this. rockbox has the best EQ on a DAP bar none IMO