Comments on Profile Post by Vtory

Rule #3: Ditch 99.9% of publicly available measurements. If you don't know what is the rest 0.1%.. then simply discard everything you get.

Why don't people know these simple rules..

People really need to learn to use this clip to find what's bothering them, especially in the treble where peaks and dips vary from person to person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU80Fagdy28

I am guilty of trying people's EQ settings (+"autoeq") which aims for the Harman target. It makes everything sound like hot garbage. I have read about using a tone generator and taking notes of where there are perceived dips and rises and then developing an EQ to deal with those. Looks like an afternoon project. Not sure if this is the right approach either.

To me sine tones are a little difficult to hear particularly for higher f. I'd rather recommend to play with N band graphical equalizer with the favorite songs (start form fewer N then increase number later!). Let's get familiar with each frequency and associate with its function in perception.

this is all well and good, but without any baseline for your preferences, all EQ tweaking impressions kinda become strictly subjective and kinda lose their value in a way as objective impressions

Good point. But, in the context of understanding others' impression, isn't the inverted EQ one very objective way to express one's tonal assessment? We have to infer others' preferred tonality in the end (by figuring out relative assessments in various ways), and I do think EQ is no worse than that. e.g., bassy --> cut x db in bass (inverted: +x db gain in bass).