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The output is spectrally flat, so with the EQ off you're getting the music as it was recorded as well as your headphones can reproduce it.
Funny you think that since the bass/treble controls use the EQ
My guess is you're not using the EQ properly.
thanks for replying!
I realise you won't believe me, 'cause I'm not presenting science as such, but I believe it's to do with FLAC playback on portable devices. Given that I had the same problem on my HiFiMan. Other folks I know have (rather rashly) alleged the same thing with flac.
Now...I realise that's a bit contentious (and potentially innacurate), but can software such as rockbox put its own flavour to the music? Is it *really* "spectrally flat" ?
I find that hard to believe.
Every music player, with flat/disabled EQ etc etc sounds different on my PC.
Best thing about Rockbox of course was the EQ precut. Stopped all distortion.
So.
If I had the time, inclination, and the ability, I'd put Rockbox back on there, and compare the sound between ALAC and WAV and FLAC.
And for those that say "they're bit perfect copies PCM blah-blah", I'm sure that different software/libraries decodes these formats, and as such, they're not equal.
Proving that is another matter.
All I know, is that now I'm back with the OF, and I've successfully copied my Replaygain tags to the (stupid) ItunNORM tags for some kind of volume normalisation, the sound is less harsh in the high mids. That's with ALAC instead of FLAC of course.
YMMV.