The biggest perpetrator for the bloated sound on certain tracks is the elevated bass between 70Hz and 250Hz in my experience. I use this EQ filter for exactly that reason for about 90% of the stuff I listen to:
F: 140Hz
Gain: -2.8dB
Q: 1.7
This keeps the bass just above Harman up until around 150Hz for some added “body”, “oomph” or whatever you want to call it, but does eliminate the bloat caused by the excess of the stock FR above that.
On some occasions I also want to remove the remaining extra bass, for which I use the following:
F: 120Hz
Gain: -3.3dB
Q: 1.0
I don’t really understand DCA’s choice for the stock tuning in the bass region, when the Stealth had it pretty much down to a T.