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      01-20-2019, 12:19 PM   #1
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AUDIOPHILES! What your EQUALIZER SETUP please?

I feel I got my equalizer set up as shown in the picture but I am open to critique or recommendations?

I would love to call myself an Audiophile but far from it because I simply don't know enough and having a mediocre sound system at home called Polk doesn't qualify me for it, nor does having B&O or B&W in my ///M cars, does it? LOL

I know it can be subjective, but I am curious whether there's a SWEET SPOT, and I know many of the gripes about the B&W and people saying it's not much better than HK, may be owing to not tapping the full potential of the system by having the wrong setup!

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I feel I got my equalizer set up as shown in the picture but I am open to critique or recommendations?

I would love to call myself an Audiophile but far from it because I simply don't know enough and having a mediocre sound system at home called Polk doesn't qualify me for it, nor does having B&O or B&W in my ///M cars, does it? LOL

I know it can be subjective, but I am curious whether there's a SWEET SPOT, and I know many of the gripes about the B&W and people saying it's not much better than HK, may be owing to not tapping the full potential of the system by having the wrong setup!

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Recently tuned to this setting from another post here. Loving it so far I turned up the treble and bass about 3 clicks
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Here is mine. I brought in a calibrated mic and measured from the driving position using uncorrelated pink noise. Then I adjusted the curve to smooth out the frequency response. Overall the profile was good. But there was a couple weird dips and a peak.

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Here is mine. I brought in a calibrated mic and measured from the driving position using uncorrelated pink noise. Then I adjusted the curve to smooth out the frequency response. Overall the profile was good. But there was a couple weird dips and a peak.

https://f90.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...9#post23450409
Interesting setup
Will try and report back to you

Like bass or treble more?
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Interesting setup
Will try and report back to you

Like bass or treble more?
Neither. It is made to be "neutral". At least what most humans think is neutral. I mentioned this is in another post that I will link below. But I discussed this with the head engineer for Revel. Basically, a neutral speaker is influenced by the room and what most people like is slightly boosted bass and then a treble roll off. Overall, the system follow that curve except for the peak and valley I try to correct for. This will give the smoothest "targeted" curve.

https://f90.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...2#post24254182
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This is/was a good thread. I think I am an audiophile from the perspective of my ears and getting it tuned the way I like it. I am also OCD and of course from song to song the response is different. It's driving me nuts.

I have B&W in my M550. As far as Eq's go, I have always used the reverse bell curve. I little lighter on the far left Bass and 100% on the far right treble. From there, it's a reverse bell curve between the two. BUT, I am wondering if a flatter approach like a few folks noted here is more natural. I still want some bass though.
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