It's taken me quite some time to get up the nerve to bother you people with such an elementary question, but...
I have AR-18b speakers; they need a little push on the low end.
I've used the equalizer in Foobar 2000 sporadically; I messed with a zillion combinations of from one to four bands between 55Hz and 156Hz.
I wasn't thrilled with the results, and just went with what the speakers would give me out of my 60Wpc integrated Jolida tube amp.
I've been playing this particular setup through my PC with an ASUS Xonar Essence XT sound card for years.
The sound card comes with a graphic equalizer available in the card's software control center popup, but I'd never messed with the EQ function in it.
Finally, not long ago, I gave the ASUS eq a try.
I was surprised to see a 30Hz band there. I bumped up the (single) 30Hz "band" a whisker and voila, bass perfect (relatively speaking, of course). I was happily stunned.
So my question is, when I look at a slider labeled 55 and the next one is labeled 77, what am I supposed to translate these numbers into, in my head?
In other words, does 55 Hz cover the FR from 20 Hz through 76 Hz, or is it some other answer that you'll hopefully apprise me of?
As an aside, why would the 30 Hz ASUS eq band fix the sound immediately to my taste, where the Foobar EQ wouldn't do it- at all?
These question are a prelude to the day in the not too distant future when my PC needs replaced, at which time I'll go to an outboard DAC, signal splitters, and wonder where the best EQ for my budget going forward might come from.
Thanks for any responses .
I have AR-18b speakers; they need a little push on the low end.
I've used the equalizer in Foobar 2000 sporadically; I messed with a zillion combinations of from one to four bands between 55Hz and 156Hz.
I wasn't thrilled with the results, and just went with what the speakers would give me out of my 60Wpc integrated Jolida tube amp.
I've been playing this particular setup through my PC with an ASUS Xonar Essence XT sound card for years.
The sound card comes with a graphic equalizer available in the card's software control center popup, but I'd never messed with the EQ function in it.
Finally, not long ago, I gave the ASUS eq a try.
I was surprised to see a 30Hz band there. I bumped up the (single) 30Hz "band" a whisker and voila, bass perfect (relatively speaking, of course). I was happily stunned.
So my question is, when I look at a slider labeled 55 and the next one is labeled 77, what am I supposed to translate these numbers into, in my head?
In other words, does 55 Hz cover the FR from 20 Hz through 76 Hz, or is it some other answer that you'll hopefully apprise me of?
As an aside, why would the 30 Hz ASUS eq band fix the sound immediately to my taste, where the Foobar EQ wouldn't do it- at all?
These question are a prelude to the day in the not too distant future when my PC needs replaced, at which time I'll go to an outboard DAC, signal splitters, and wonder where the best EQ for my budget going forward might come from.
Thanks for any responses .