The equalizer you don't know you have

I am lucky because I like my speakers, not ideally located in my room, neither in good shape (one of them is more weak than the other) ...


Bad situation is not it?

Then why do I love them so much? ( except for the price that are peanuts)


God news, you can compensate et improve your speakers and their imaging and rendering of timbre beyond your wildest imagination....


Most people had never listen to the right potential of their speakers....

And it is not the cabling that will upgrade them on another level... I know cables makes a difference tough, but it is not the change in one flavor spice that transform a bad soup in a good one...

Vibrations-resonance controls
Acoustical room treatment.
Cleaning the house electrical grid.
Tweaking the acoustic with Schumann generator modified, and Helmholtz resonators, and some other simple homemade reflective resonators and using my "golden" plate idea on the back of the speakers and on the breaker central panels... In a few words...

Erik, do you see now why built in EQ doesnt work?

Kenjit,
I’m not going to attempt a fact based conversation with a poster who calls science and filter design "hocus-pocus" whenever the conversation goes over their head.

You've also posted that you have no idea what components in a crossover do, so your condescension is hugely amusing.


Best,

E

I am lucky because I like my speakers,

Happy is the man who wants nothing he does not already have!


Erik

whenever the conversation goes over their head.

So why dont you enlighten us if you think you are more knowledgeable than me? 

kenjit: "Which is why so many audiophiles are never happy with their speakers. The EQ that is built in, has been tuned to the designers ears rather than your ears.
If you want a pair of trousers that fits you, who should try it on to see if it fits? The person in the store, or you?"

     Good point, kenjit! I was having the salesperson try out the fit on my prospective trousers for years before I figured that one out.
     I believe you’re also right about this approach applying well to our main speaker choices because speaker selection is so subjective and personal. It’s sort of a "I’ll know the right pair of speakers for me when I hear them" kind of deal when searching for the ones to actually purchase and live with for awhile. It’s likely a confluence of speaker design and sound quality characteristics that determine our choices, including the overall sonic attributes of the EQ settings chosen by the speaker designers via their crossover networks.
     Ultimately however, we all know we make our decisions on which pair of main speakers to purchase based on the total package and total sound; how closely does our subjective perception of how they sound compare to our subjective perception of how we’d like them to sound? Let’s throw out that pesky subjective variable factor of price at the moment for clarity and simplicity’s sake.
     While I agree with Erik that the crossover networks on any speakers function as hidden critical EQs on the resultant sound, I suggest we put them in perspective by considering them only one of the several ingredients that determine the overall sound of a speaker. They are an important ingredient in the overall sonic taste or flavor of a speaker but, I believe many of us would agree, there are also several other important ingredient worthy of discussion
     I wanted to add that I appreciate Erik’s efforts in playing the role of an informal facilitator on this forum by consistently being the original poster of many threads that are creative, concern a wide variety of interesting as well as relevant audio topics which are typically thought provoking and that usually elicit many equally interesting, entertaining and informative responses.

Thank you, Erik,
Tim