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From: John Carrana on 2 Feb 2006 19:53
If your interested in a great equalizer setting try this.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040902070807431&mode=print

Makes Soundsticks sound even better.

John

From: Ian McCall on 2 Feb 2006 20:13
On 2006-02-03 00:53:29 +0000, John Carrana <johncarrana(a)blueyonder.co.uk> said:

> If your interested in a great equalizer setting try this.
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040902070807431&mode=print
>
> Makes Soundsticks sound even better.

Interesting thread - a bit later on a sound engineer posts saying that
additive filtering is not the way to go, but instead subtractive
filtering should be used and then the result brought back up to a
decent volume by using the pre-amp.

Go to the link above and search for 'Wrong approach for audiophiles'.
He's right - his version sounds better. There's a Scripted link in the
thread too, which I've just used to create a preset 'macosxhints -
subtractive' and which is sounding good on the soundsticks here.


Cheers,
Ian


From: Bella Jones on 3 Feb 2006 04:58
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

> On 2006-02-03 00:53:29 +0000, John Carrana <johncarrana(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
> said:
>
> > If your interested in a great equalizer setting try this.
> >
> > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040902070807431&mode=print
> >
> > Makes Soundsticks sound even better.
>
> Interesting thread - a bit later on a sound engineer posts saying that
> additive filtering is not the way to go, but instead subtractive
> filtering should be used and then the result brought back up to a
> decent volume by using the pre-amp.
>
> Go to the link above and search for 'Wrong approach for audiophiles'.
> He's right - his version sounds better. There's a Scripted link in the
> thread too, which I've just used to create a preset 'macosxhints -
> subtractive' and which is sounding good on the soundsticks here.

Very interesting link. I have a probably dreadful and faux-pas-ridden
equaliser setting I have called 'Jungle?', which boosts both treble and
bass, and, probably due to incipient party deafness, improves other
kinds of music as well. However, after checking that thread, I may try
something else.

--
bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
From: David Kennedy on 3 Feb 2006 05:25
On 3/2/06 9:58 am, Bella Jones wrote:
>
> Very interesting link. I have a probably dreadful and faux-pas-ridden
> equaliser setting I have called 'Jungle?', which boosts both treble and
> bass, and, probably due to incipient party deafness, improves other
> kinds of music as well. However, after checking that thread, I may try
> something else.
>

The theory behind it is sound. But, it relies on you having a "good"
quality recording in the first place i.e. one which contains _all_ the
original recorded information. By the time you get to AAC never mind MP3
those conditions are no longer true. It is also based on the assumption
that you have some good quality playback equipment which again may [or
may not] be true.

If you're talking about playback on a fairly standard computer or even
on many of the computer type extension speakers via itunes [whatever the
encoding] and not simply from a CD in the computer drive then boosting
frequencies may be the only answer. Especially if you know, as I do,
that your hearing is not what it used to be.....


--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Simon Slavin on 5 Feb 2006 19:08
On 03/02/2006, John Carrana wrote in message
<C0085A08.2C9A0%johncarrana(a)blueyonder.co.uk>:

> If your interested in a great equalizer setting try this.

Meaningless. The job of an equalizer is to compensate for the defects in
the recording and in the reproduction environment. I have a big heater in
my front room that has a metal front panel which amplifies sounds around
the 500Hz band, so my 'perfect' settings would include the 500Hz band
setting below 0db.

One person's perfect settings for a particular reproduction environment
are useless for anything else.

Having said that, there can be a systematic defect in a certain part of
the reproduction process: for instance a particular model of amplifier may
be weak in the 4K band, so everyone with that model of amp may like the 4K
setting a little high. But unless iTunes itself has a systematic defect
like that, one person's settings won't help another person.

Simon.
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http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk
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