First, no matter what ideas or instinct you follow about what's "right", there's a critically important need for a reference sound. I tend to agree with the rest.įor OP and your quest, it's sadly quite an adventure to learn how to EQ well for your own ears. In short there are enough differences not to accept the direct parallel he made. Also, the bass boost in the Harman target was a subjective demand from listeners, not something that came up from trying to objectively port the speaker in a room response onto the EQed HD800 used at the time. In their very first attempt to test that intuition(and they did many more tests after that at Harman, continuing to slowly part from their first assumption), listeners clearly aimed for a warmer signature by a few dBs. And while the final Harman curve is not radically different, it's also clearly not the same thing. Olive & all did start with that aim, suspecting logically that if people prefer FR only altered by the natural acoustic of a room, then they would also prefer that equivalent response in headphones. I get the appeal of saying that the Harman curve is like a flat speaker in a room, given how a flat speaker in a room has been established to be listeners' preferred response. Super Dan properly explains how headphone measurements using different couplers/standards make it difficult to translate measurement from one headphone coupler to another, but then he has no issue associating a room measurement with the Harman target(from ear simulator), even though they're even more radically different tools and methods of getting a FR. I just have one serious issue with that video. Is there any methodology you have used to generate a personal baseline target curve(s) you can recommend? Would it be better to start with a downloaded Harman preset (like Oratory1990 or Crinacle, etc.), then add additional frequencies to adjust from there? If so, which frequencies?Īre there some frequencies or ranges that are known to be particularly good starting points for a blank EQ? Any frequencies or ranges considered problematic, desirable, or undesirable? The only way I can think to go about this would be setting up a flat parametric EQ in Peace with EQ sliders at regular intervals (say 250 Hz intervals?) and then moving sliders around with reference tracks? Ultimately would like to create my own target curves to EQ individual headphones. Rather than just EQ-ing to the Harman curves, I'd like to get a methodology to figure out what I personally prefer, what frequencies I'm sensitive to, etc. Equalizer APO and Peace are great, been using them for awhile and I've downloaded many a preset from the AutoEQ project.
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