Understand, however, that if you tune your stereo to give you a flat response to a pink noise track, it will sound *terrible* when you play regular music. Don't get too carried away with this auto-equalization idea. Perfect, flat equalization doesn't sound like what the
human ear is expecting to hear. Other than for esoteric competition purposes, you might be better off equalizing by ear, making it sound the way that seems best to you, rather than trying to conform to some arbitrary "ideal" of flat equalization.

The fact that a perfectly flat response sounds terrible means that recording studios aren't using speakers with flat responses. As far as I know, most speakers have a slightly dulled response at 1-4kHz (some of the vocal band). The thing is, with enough data you can make any speaker sound identical to another. So if you like the sound of one competitor's system, you can just clone it


- John (from empeg)

(The above may not represent the views of empeg :)