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RE: A little loudness compensation goes a long way

I suggest getting a calibrated microphone and REW software to measure your room response at your listening position. Generally, there will be problems that are much greater than the adjustments in your curve. These are best adjusted by speaker positioning and crossover tweaks, to the extent possible. What's left can be adjusted by a parametric equalizer.

I've never believed in loudness compensation. If recordings are to sound natural they should be played back at the intended level. The problem comes if one has a system with weak bass, because then one will tend to turn the volume up to make for the weakness and this will create harshness and/or even damage your hearing.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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