Kurt Hamster wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:59:30 +0100, Ian Molton used
to say...


Kurt Hamster wrote:


When it comes to recreational audio why should it matter whether we can
trust our hearing or not?

Two thoughts spring to mind:

1) I happen to enjoy my system better with the bass eq'd up a bit on a
lot of stuff. NOT everything.

2) I like to be able to set the eq 'flat' as best I can on some other
recordings because I want to hear the closest I can to what was intended
by its producers.


Neither of which answered the question.

Correct. Its a fair cop...

My point (which I was going to go on to make) was that there si no point
in having a 'flat' setting available if you dont believe it to be
accurate / able to faithfully reproduce the original signal. If I dont
trust my hearing to 'remember' I have to rely on instrumentation to
ensure the 'flatness' is real rather than imaginary.

I suppose its in the same vein that I like the walls of my house to be
as close to vertical as is reasonable.

sure an inch or so out wouldnt hurt, but it woulnt be as good.