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Awesome. Now I just need the ability to change it with one key press and it's perfect for my use (headphones and speakers with a one-key trigger to Peace to change the EQ). Whether that's a physical button on the DAC for each PEQ, a command-line utility I can set up a shortcut for, or a...

A distorted version of it for sure - I am not making any claims here. Some people hear something they like (perhaps even without realizing what it is) and assume that it is "part of the music my old amp couldn't reveal" or somesuch. I'm just asking if the goal of a tube amp is aligned to the...

What's the goal for tube amps? To be clean - reproduce audio as accurately as possible? I was under the impression/expectation that if I'm looking at a tube amp, I would want it to add saturation (i.e. "distortion that I like"). That is, the objective measurements will never be 'good' for a...

No one ever said that THD alone is sufficient to accurately describe a headphone's sound, so I'm not sure why you bring this up. Are you trying to say that given an identical frequency response and an identical phase response*, an electrostatic headphone will sound different from another type...

Right - and I don't think anyone is saying it is, after all Amir shows more than one chart per review. It is a large part of the "description" of headphones, though. If I'm looking at a headphone review here and wondering if I should get excited over it, I look at the FR first (as well as how...

Appreciate the details. But just to be clear, I wasn't advocating for using this approach to listen to music, just as a tool to play with the stereo image. That is, there are small things that can be done to change the 'soundstage' or 'etherealness' or whatever other word someone can use to...

Absolutely. You can't, however, turn it off, and that's important to keep in mind. Let's say a new song comes out, and the artist has taken deliberate time and effort to make the high frequencies shift about in a pleasing way (in more specific terms, passing this song through a goniometer...

Unfortunately I don't. I'm sure there are a handful out there though - let me know if you find some. Part of the issue is that the option of applying different filters to each channel separately (left, right, stereo, mid, and side) is typically not part of free effects (I don't think...

I think it's also important to note that there is another option: if the cheaper option that adheres to the target FR (e.g. Harman) is also tunable without distortion, then you could add EQ to match your preferred target* and save money. I'm guessing based on reading through these replies that...

In reference to this chart: Does the sometimes large (but importantly, inconsistent) differences between the left and right channels' level mean there is (or could be) phase differences between the left and right channels? I have a feeling the answer is 'no' or else it would have been brought...

Yep, right here: https://pierreaubert.github.io/spinorama/eqs.html

Just as FYI, EQs generated using the spinorama are here: https://pierreaubert.github.io/spinorama/eqs.html (including the Q350)

I remember reading something YEARS ago about "The case of the missing fundamental" - perhaps this may help? https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/Phonetics%20II%20page%20thirteen.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental

Wow, if I'm reading that chart right, you have to drop 49 Hz by like 21.6 dB to be "flat"? Rooms are crazy :) Headphones are so much easier...

TL;DR - Got new speakers, figured out the room added a very high spike of energy at ~136 Hz to the tune (pun intended) of around 19 dB. Does that sound right or am I barking up the wrong tree? So I decided I wanted new speakers (had tiny ones, wanted a fuller range). Spent a month researching...

If you've got access to EQ, then get the Sundara for sure.

Thanks for the rec! They are indeed on my shortlist of active monitors, should I decide to head down the active path. If they had auto standby I probably would already bought them, but right now I am waiting on Amir's upcoming Behringer B2031A review to decide between those two and the JBL...

Oh yeah, I figured the tenth of a point hardly mattered. Is there more I can read about preference score and nearfield use? I would imagine anything in this PS range would be "basically equivalent sound quality after EQ". I'm actually thinking that because these would be so close to me that...

I'm heavily considering a pair of these as they are discounted right now and end up $200 below the DBR-62s, which was my top choice. They would be connected to a desktop, so I would be EQing these and have them pretty close - like 1m at max. I am also not looking to use a sub with these, so...

That price : performance chart is nice, but it doesn't take EQ into effect which will dramatically shift things around. I've been doing a lot of searching around lately as I'm also looking for a stereo set, and as I will be hooking them up to a PC I'm only interested in the post-EQ ratings...