Another surprise was that getting a halfway decent pair of speakers that can emit bass (but aren't particularly bass heavy) made a lot of audio sound worse without EQ.
The problem is that a lot of audio sources contain a huge amount of low frequency garbage, which most speakers don't reproduce. If you get speakers that actually reproduce the garbage, that audio actually sounds much worse. I don't remember this being an issue the last time I had speakers with bass, but
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there's a lot more low quality audio now. 15 years ago, I was mostly listening to was music on CDs.
Nowadays, it's YT, podcasts, etc., which tend to have bad audio, even when people have fancy setups.
E.g., I just listened to a podcast that has a full-time pro audio crew, with hosts and guests in the same room, in front of SM7Bs. 1 of 3 people had strong proximity effect; sounds terrible, and that person is way too loud. You're better off with 0 bass when listening.
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@danluu people talking (especially podcasts) could really do with a high pass filter around 100hz. The human voice doesn’t produce anything useful below this and it will just be muddying up the sound.
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