Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best?

Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best?

If you want to hear it the way it was recorded and intended to be listen to, then flat is best.
If you don’t like it, buy a equaliser and do what you consider to be the best.
http://www.schiit.com/products/loki

Cheers George

@kalali 

06-24-2018 12:41pm

This discussion begs this question: would two different speakers with identical frequency response curves sound the same in your room? I'm betting the answer is no.

There are so many other variables. Impulse response, compression, dispersion (power response)  and distortion among a few of them. 

ESL's have often really mediocre FR but their lack of reflections make up for it in detail and imaging. 

Erik,

I second your thoughts on experimentting with room acoustics.

I designed my listening room with an acoustician so it’s a good sounding room.
But I also have some leeway in adjusting the reflectivity af various points.  I have a shag rug (yeah, baby!) and the ceiling is a drop down structure covered in felt with various portions of heavy absorption areas hidden behind.  So just those two elements alone tend to reduce a lot of room reflection hash etc for a tmbrally smooth sound.

But I also have a variety of curtains gatherered in the room corners that I can pull across any specific area of the wall to kill other upper frequency reflection points, or alternatively liven the sound by allowing more room reflection.   It’s great having this flexibility (and a recently added diffuser has increased the control over my room acoustics).

As to your suggestion for people to try dampening behind the speakers I can attest to that as well.  Several feet behind my main stereo speakers is a wall sized projection screen with a 4 way velvet masking system.  This means I can make the back wall behind the speakers very reflective (velvet curtains wide open revealing reflective screen surface) or completely covered in velvet, or anything in between.  Only adjusting the reflectivity of the back wall really has an effect on the room sound.  Too much and it becomes too dead.  But a judicious screen size setting behind my speakers leaves a really nice  balance.   The more I close the velvet the more the ambience tone and reverb comes only from the recording.  Opening the curtains makes the sound more open and lively. 

kosst_amojan
I completely agree with Elizabeth and Erik. It's real easy to get nasty treble when it's bouncing all over a reflective room and that jazz needs tamed.

>>>>You don’t know the half of it.