Comments on: iTunes Equalizer – the Best iTunes Equalizer settings

By: raamesh

raamesh — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:05:12 +0000

to complete your statement, equalizer is needed to compensate the artifacts caused by electronics ans spekers/headphones

By: Radim

Radim — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:24:16 +0000

really perfect!!! Thanks

By: jonchan

jonchan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:24:44 +0000

well the beats aren’t exactly the most discerning of headphones with bloated mid-bass

By: Electronicer

Electronicer — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:36:34 +0000

Oops, I meant -3. D:

By: Electronicer

Electronicer — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:35:23 +0000

I listen to mostly electronic music, so this works out just fine for me, except I turned the first… um… slider… down to either -1.5 or 3.
And I don’t get the whole thing about not working well on headphones or that it only works for cheap headphones. I have Bose earphones and it sounds awesome.

By: KV

KV — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:25:05 +0000

I agree with this statement.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:10:32 +0000

I find the rock preset to be the best well-rounded preset. Gives the bass and treble a nice punch, and greatly improves the quality of compressed audio.

By: adsver

adsver — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:16:38 +0000

perfect!!!!))) bass))

By: Will Turner

Will Turner — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:45:24 +0000

Yes – after years of playing rock music with various 100 watt marshalls and blackface/silverface fender combo’s cranked right up the top end is really lacking these days haha.

By: Will Turner

Will Turner — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:43:35 +0000

EQ’s (in the home at least) are designed to correct for speakers flaws. So settings are specific to one signal chain (speakers, amp, preamp and D/A convertors all play a part in how the end result sounds).

If EQing to improve the sound on your hi end hifi or similar, here’s something to think about.

The sound engineer that recorded/mastered the track your listening to has already EQ’d everything and it’s likely their job, hobby and love since they were able to hear – so EQing to make their mix sound better is actually rather insulting to the dude and also a bold claim. Are you really that sure of yourself, to claim that your ears are better than a professionals likely with decades of experience..?

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By: Jakobe

Jakobe — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:35:41 +0000

Hey man, great job! Sounds great but u should put the preamp much lower so the basss sounds ‘restricted’

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:28:50 +0000

Don’t forget that as well as speakers and room configuration, people’s ears respond differently. When you get to my age, boosting the treble a little can help compensate for some of the high tone frequency loss acquired over the years.

Did you know that in some undeveloped areas in Africa, there is no loss of hearing with age? Possibly due to the absence of traffic/airplane noise as well as not listening to artificially amplified music.

By: b00l5hit

b00l5hit — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:26:41 +0000

This is possibly the worst thing you could do to your music…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:29:44 +0000

For people arguing about this setting
IF YOU LISTEN TO METAL(aka august burns red act) It will sound bad due to the 16k and 8k and 4k up like that, if you listen to Hip-hop it is good cause it makes the bass stand out and makes the vocals clearer, and for rock and such its a good one, but it does clip cause of the bass, but if you have good speakers, then it is a good setting, cause without subs built in, the speakers sound like they “clip” but the speakers just cant handle all that bass

If you listen to metal IN HEADPHONES, I turn my 32 to 1 then 62 to 3, the 125 to 5, then 250 to 3, the 500 to 1 or 0, then keep it around 1 or flat till 8H AND 16H, 1h, 2h are mids, and 4h is a treble mid, then 8h and 16h are treble. So For metal, i prefer the 8 to be at 1 or 2, the 16 a little above(2 or 3)

IF you listen to rap, DONT TURN UP THE PREAMP, OR TURN THE LOWS UP ALOT, this will hurt your speakers, Use a little lower bass settings, unless you have a powerfull set of speakers that CAN handle such bass.

All and all, this setting is a personal setting, his setting has helped me to shape mine to my own personal settings, and taste. If you like bass, turn down treble(not negative it, cause that also cuts vocals ;DD) and if you dont like alot of bass, turn down the 31 62 and 125 till your pleased, the 500 and 1000 are mids, not bass