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faverodefavero t1_iscn5i4 wrote

Yes, for worse. EQing past just one or two frequency ranges by just a few Dbs will always have bad results in my experience. Also EQing produces effects some people are more sensitive to, specially digital EQing. Just research it up. Also, trying to make the driver act in a way it doesn't want to can results in distortions elsewhere, clipping and other problems. I tried EQing in many ways, in many headphones, I don't like the effects over just listening to headphones as they are, I find they always produce the best they can the way they come, a small EQ bump here or there may be fine, but from my experience anything more than that produces worst results every single time, that is my experience with it.

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Puzzled-Background-5 t1_isd1chh wrote

Digital EQ is far cleaner in terms of distortion and phasing than analog EQ. By the way, human hearing is rather insensitive to phase unless it's really pushed to produce an effect.

In fact, EQ, as well as other DSP, is applied in all active headphone and speaker implementations to produce performance characteristics that many passive counterparts would struggle to achieve by electro-mechanical means.

We've even got a database of EQ settings, maintained by a professional acoustic engineer, for thousands of different headphones, earphones and IEMs designed to put them into compliance with a very well researched, industry standard, target frequency response curve:

AutoEQ is a project for equalizing headphone frequency responses automatically, and it achieves this by parsing frequency response measurements and producing equalization settings which correct the headphone to a neutral sound. This project currently has over 4000 headphones covered in the results folder.

Can a headphone be overdriven by EQ into audibly distorting? Of course, it can. However, if it is under the circumstances that we're concerned with, which is correcting to a target, then its got quality control issues to begin with and is a poorly designed product I'd avoid purchasing.

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IMKGI t1_iscnzv2 wrote

Why would that be bad? I your headphones has minor problems in a few frequency ranges a 3-4db EQs are all you need to get it to the desired sound signature, i myself got a 3,4db bass boost and a 3,6db 2khz boost on my 800S, it doesn't make a huge difference but it makes them fit my preferences more closely without completely chanign the sound signature, if you do it in the right way and tastefully i don't see a problem with this

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Extrapaj t1_iseh3sx wrote

>Also, trying to make the driver act in a way it doesn't want to

Please, not this quote again, I don't know if I should laugh or cry. Probably both.

You're simply changing the amplitude of a frequency, just like when you lower or higher your volume. You're not making the drivers go sideways or whatever you now believe EQ does.

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