selig wrote: ↑20 Apr 2018
RobC wrote: ↑19 Apr 2018
Yeah, the current headphones really have a sound I don't like at all.
When equalized flat, this little sample sounds about balanced out. Without the headphones equalized, the treble scratches my eardrums.
It's not your phones…
That sounds totally hyped on the top end to my ears. Too much treble, not a natural "pink noise" curve at all, at least to my ears on my system. If I equalized that to sound right, then pretty much nothing else I listen to would be acceptable on any level.
Could this one example explain why I don't understand your process?
If you take sine waves, equalize them one by one with an equalizer so one doesn't sound louder than the other one, then keep that equalizer on and listen to the sample with that calibrated setting, then it should sound even in every frequency band (well, approximately). The highest band is between 10 an 15 kHz which might be screwed up a little.
Sine waves go from 30 Hz, always one octave higher, so 60 Hz 120 Hz, etc. This was a quick test with GoldWave's FIR linear phase Spectrum Filter. Bands are 20-40 Hz 40-80 Hz 80-160 Hz etc. Square shaped isolation for each. Above 15 kHz it was wiped out.
How isn't it my phones, if I experienced the same with some Bernie Grundman masters?
Pink noise sounds pretty uneven for the human hearing in my opinion.
The sine wave calibration method will get you pretty much what I hear.
For example you listen to 30 Hz and you do an A/B comparison with 60 Hz. If one sounds louder than the other, you take the louder one's EQ fader a bit back, until they sound even to your hearing. Better set the target level around 2 kHz, and start comparing and equalizing from there.
For me, that sine wave calibration method opened a whole new dimension.