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Is my current theory that I would like to bounce off of you gentlemen.
I suspect it might be obvious to many of you who are more knowledgeable and experienced than I am, but to me it came as a slow revelation as I spend more time trying to solve EQ issues using MacOS. And in full, it goes something like this:
It should be possible to tune a decent headphone to your liking using 5 EQ filters or less. If the headphone requires more than 5 filters to sound good, it is not a good headphone. And fine tuning with more than 5 filters is unnecessary nitpicking.
I have thought about this in connection with headphones, but maybe it might be true for IEMs as well?
Why five, well because RME ADI-2, but also I figured, to get satisfying results I usually need a sub-bass shelf, a bass correction (hate the 200hz boost), 2 mid/treble corrections and in some instances a fix for ear piercing highs.
In any case, what do you think?
I suspect it might be obvious to many of you who are more knowledgeable and experienced than I am, but to me it came as a slow revelation as I spend more time trying to solve EQ issues using MacOS. And in full, it goes something like this:
It should be possible to tune a decent headphone to your liking using 5 EQ filters or less. If the headphone requires more than 5 filters to sound good, it is not a good headphone. And fine tuning with more than 5 filters is unnecessary nitpicking.
I have thought about this in connection with headphones, but maybe it might be true for IEMs as well?
Why five, well because RME ADI-2, but also I figured, to get satisfying results I usually need a sub-bass shelf, a bass correction (hate the 200hz boost), 2 mid/treble corrections and in some instances a fix for ear piercing highs.
In any case, what do you think?
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