PiccoloNamek
Headphoneus Supremus
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In that case, you would still want a flat response so you would be able to hear just what the microphone recorded while it was in the position it was.
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Perhaps, but that does not reduce the need or validity of accurate audio reproduction. The point of having a speaker or headphone with a flat response is so that it will reproduce the audio signal as-is.
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Well, the EQ I use is a linear phase EQ, and a very good one at that, so I'm not too worried about phase shift.
I think your comparison to an "illness" is completely wrong. In life, we hear the same sounds in different tonal balances all the time. Some familiar sound, like my friend's voice, sounds different depending on the distance, room acoustics or outdoors, etc. The recordings of music will have different tonal balance depending on where the microphones were placed. |
In that case, you would still want a flat response so you would be able to hear just what the microphone recorded while it was in the position it was.
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There really is no such thing as a "flat" reference. There is no single original tonal balance. |
Perhaps, but that does not reduce the need or validity of accurate audio reproduction. The point of having a speaker or headphone with a flat response is so that it will reproduce the audio signal as-is.
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I do think for me the time domain is more important, and you have no idea what you are doing to the time domain when you apply EQ, but you are likely time-smearing. |
Well, the EQ I use is a linear phase EQ, and a very good one at that, so I'm not too worried about phase shift.