How do I interpret EQs from different people?

[Revolite]

I'm learning about EQ adjustments at the moment and have found several sources that seem to provide a decent starting point but I don't completely understand how they came up with their values or if a different balance suits different purposes? Is room correction different? Or maybe it doesn't matter at all because my room is not their room and I should just let me ear holes do the work?

I have put links to what I am talking about below

Kanto YU6 Measurements (Powered Monitor)

This is a review and detailed measurements of the Kanto YU6 powered speaker. It was kindly sent to me by a member and costs US $499 on Amazon including Prime shipping. The YU6 comes in different finishes, all of which look pretty attractive. The sample I have is black: As you see, you have...

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Kanto YU6 Measurements (Powered Monitor)

This would sacrifice bass extension, so I think it was weighted pros and cons. Do passive radiators offer better tradeoffs for small speakers, or it’s all about execution?

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pierreaubert/spinorama/develop/datas/eq/Kanto%20YU6/iir-autoeq.txt

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A collection of loudspeakers measurements

 

[Newman]

Generally speaking, the EQ that intelligent reviewers recommend above the bass is to correct measured aberrations in the on-axis (or listening window) anechoic response of the speaker. This can be a good thing, as long as the reviewers have intelligently analysed reasons for the aberrations and determined that they are suitable for equalisation.

In the bass, below a few hundred hertz, correction needs to be in-room and ungated (including echoes from the room surfaces). This “room correction” is almost universally a good thing, as long as the speaker can handle it and it is intelligently done, eg don’t try to EQ to flat a huge room null, and don’t try to EQ a speaker to flat FR below its ‘rated’ low frequency.

However, “room correction” algorithms above the bass are a much more iffy proposition. If the unequalised speaker is very poor in terms of FR and coloured sound, it might actually help. But if the unequalised speaker is excellent, the room correction algorithm is very likely to make the anechoic FR less accurate, which is highly undesirable.

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