I kind of think we're not talking about the same things here when I refer to "flat" on a pink-noise competition, and you refer to flat equalization of music.

A "flat" response is the audio equivalent of wysiwyg for graphics. What goes in comes out exactly as the recorded medium asked. No matter how you do your equalisation curve you should get the same result. It doesn't matter whether you use pink noise, white noise, or plain music - you're trying to fit the output curve to the input curve.

The ugly truth is that if you have a perfect wysiwyg (and no distortion, intermodulation etc) system and it sounds awful - then it's telling you the recording you have is awful. Because what you're hearing IS the recording, unaltered. The problem may be that the recording studio decided to equalise for the average speaker system.


- John (from empeg)

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