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Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room?

The most basic truth of audio for the last 30 years is listeners prefer a flat frequency response. You achieve that through getting the right speakers, in the right position, in the right room, and then use room treatments and DSP to dial it in. If you are posting questions about what gear to buy and have NOT measured your room and dialed it in to achieve a flat frequency response FIRST you are blowing cash not investing cash IMO. Have you measured the frequency response in your room yet and posted it?

 

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ghasley
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@esarhaddon 

 

Your premise is potentially fallable. You assume engineering and production for best sound quality may have been the goal…which isn’t always the case. More than a few productions may have been mixed to optimize sound from a boombox …or an automobile system…or earbuds.

 

Ideally I would love to hear what the original intent was provided they each shared sound quality as a goal. But alas, no two do to the same level or degree of honesty.

ghasley
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@esarhaddon 

No, I was talking about recorded music for which the mixes were tailored for the intended audience and how they might play it back. Alot of music was compromised because they made certain that it was optimized for AM or FM rebroadcast.

 

You are correct, I was born after the middle of the last century so I haven't had time yet to become snarky or bitter. Just pointing out that EVERYONE is likely aware that production values of many recordings has been compromised as a result of distribution/playback decision making.

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