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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Ironically, I bought these speakers on the theory that it would make people easier to understand on calls. I don't think this was prima facie stupid since a $40 pair of speakers/headphones makes it much easier to understand people who have really bad audio setups (for video calls or w/e).
But it turns out that a more expensive pair of speakers, on average, makes speech harder to understand (though, on the rare occasion I listen to good audio, it sounds much better).
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@danluu Yes, what you need to do for voice recognition versus music are quite different. Hearing aids don’t do anything with bass. I switch to airpods for listening to music, and turn down my hearing aids a lot for playing it.
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