Stop Doing This for BETTER SOUND!

You may have heard of the "smileyface eq" especially if you're into car audio. Before you decide to do this to your speaker system, let me tell you why it isn't ideal!

[victorjohnson]

This is a great video. I’m going to check my EQ today.

[AmazonasBiotop]

I don't understand.😮
You are talking about if/when your EQ adjust lower frequencies than the system can't reproduce.

But if your speakers and system can reproduce the EQ frequency then there is not that issue any longer.🤔

The smiley curve is perfectly "normal" and support our human hearing and it is not a coincidence that it is used or popular.🎉(it is how normal hearing works!)

As we have learned and doing hearing tests, by conducting those tests in young healthy adults in their peek years and since the 30-ties and onward!

And today we even have a ISO standard for it😅

Study the "equal-loudness contour curve" and its implications.

You will see that it is smiley shaped frequency response...🎉

That means that your hearing SENSITIVITY is lower the lower we go in frequency and also on the other end, the higher up in frequency we go.

Or in short we can put it like that our hearing us the most sensitive in the midrange.🎉

So we see clearly why a smiley curve is most likely supporting our hearing and its sensitivity ALONG the whole frequency band.❤

So no need for trashing smiley curve when if we were perfectly honest is more appropriate (for humans that don't have linearly sensitivity across all frequencies as a calibrated measuring microphone.) Than a "flat" curve. 😂

Consider flat then you will not hear as well the bass and highs as you hear the midrange.😢

Yes everything should be addressed with moderation.

A pro tip is that look at the graphs online when you Google "equal-loudness contour".

You see that each individual line is less smiley as the loudness (volume) goes up..😊

That means that adjust the EQ at the loudness that you usually are listening to.🎉

(If you adjust EQ while playing at lower loudness then it will be to much bass and highs when you turn up the volume.)❤

In short we need to learn how our hearing works that it is not as I call it "microphone flat".😅❤

[antariusb]

I’m guilty of that, I definitely need to install my audiocontrol dsp

[Pete.across.the.street]

I tune all my speakers flat and then use the audio frog curve for the universal EQ curve.

[CarlVanDoren]

No equalizer 😮 DAC Direct 😊
Attenuate 60" true ribbon tweeter
Adjust sub frequency on crossover

[ASillyLlama]

Smiley face curve makes you smile more tho

[Mikexception]

When listeners know all what they should stop doing they can complete top perfect audio setup with ease. In reality it is very complicated - as we know audiophiles pay for gear tens thousands and stiil plan to buy new. . Unfortunately the list of "not to do" is infinite and there is interaction between " what to do" and "what not to do" - means they are make cross jumping. What in one system may be bad in other may be good and opposite No any system has flat response - it is theoretical idea.

[lyndonramchatesingh]

Hey kpace guy whats up bro so is it wise to do time alignment for car audio it seems that only when u are sitting in the car you will get the right phase and levels just like a home theater but if u are outside the car and all the doors open will the sound be weird not sure if I'm saying it right let me know