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Are you most times a treble or bass biased listener?

Quadman2 said:
This has been asked more than one way before, but I don't think this question has been polled before. I did look.

Of the two choices, I think I'm more of a high frequency "freak" for the most part, as I tend towards a lot of stringed music.

I like the detail in most listening, and the bass can often over ride a lot of the music that's out there. A lot can be studio mixing, Mind you at times, if it's a rock genre to be played, I'll tweak the bass knob, or slope the frequency in favour of the lower range.

Anyways, was wondering how others colour their listening sources. Bass biased/treble biased/none biased (flat)?


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I like bass. But it depends on the song. If I'm listening to Eminem or some other Hip-Hop artist I lean more towards bass. With rock music a mix of both with highs turned up slightly.
 
It depends on the music. I love bass in disco and rock but I love treble in classical music. Every musical selection has its own sweet spot. I can't act as if there is a one size fits all setting of bass, mid range and treble that satisfies the entire musical spectrum. I have the Sunset Boulevard original movie soundtrack. Some tracks were born for bass and others only come fully to life with treble brought to the fore. Blues or R&B can be both neither or either.
 
Quadman2 said:
This has been asked more than one way before, but I don't think this question has been polled before. I did look.

Of the two choices, I think I'm more of a high frequency "freak" for the most part, as I tend towards a lot of stringed music.

I like the detail in most listening, and the bass can often over ride a lot of the music that's out there. A lot can be studio mixing, Mind you at times, if it's a rock genre to be played, I'll tweak the bass knob, or slope the frequency in favour of the lower range.

Anyways, was wondering how others colour their listening sources. Bass biased/treble biased/none biased (flat)?


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I am a get the midrange right first person. Human voice is the toughest thing to reproduce correctly, free of coloration. For many years, I always carried a demo tape (later CD-R) with various material including various music, and even announcer's voices. If the announcer sounded colored, the loudspeaker for me didn't pass.
 
There are no tone controls on my preamp, so everything is set flat, and I adjust using speaker placement and gain on the subwoofer.
 
Great midrange is what my ears long for the most (too). The other areas of emphasis follow at short distance in terms of importance though.
KentTeffeteller said:
I am a get the midrange right first person. Human voice is the toughest thing to reproduce correctly, free of coloration. For many years, I always carried a demo tape (later CD-R) with various material including various music, and even announcer's voices. If the announcer sounded colored, the loudspeaker for me didn't pass.
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I am more of a Bass Head since I used to play and always follow the bass lines of songs. The, I stumbled on to a pretty high end system at the time that I purchased. The speakers were made by a guy, dead now, but his company sells Mega Buck speakers still today. That system introduced me to Midrange that my then current system was lacking. From there I bought speakers that handle all three ranges very well but I still listen to the Bass and lots of my music includes great bassists.

I do not use tone controls. They exist on my current Integrated but I always run Line Direct.
 
So, as most have shared, there are individual preferences as to how/why to tailor the end resulting sound.

It might be the recording/genre/gear or and aging factor or a mix of these variables wherein listeners tend to modify to their specific likes.


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Quadman2 said:
So, as most have shared, there are individual preferences as to how/why to tailor the end resulting sound.

It might be the recording/genre/gear or and aging factor or a mix of these variables wherein listeners tend to modify to their specific likes.


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For me, Modify means put together a system that sounds good with almost anything played as opposed to twiddling with knobs for every song, disk, or album. But I know I am not in the majority here.
 
As a side note, after a quick look-see, it seems that the male tends to lose the upper range more so, while for the female, they tend to lose the lower/mid frequencies.

Could be the result of "cross-talk" between the two sexes? :biggrin: Just a supposition.

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I've been reading the responses so I guess I am #3 -not too much bass, not too much treble, and mid-range that is prominent but not harsh in your face. I don't think I have it over-skewed one way or the other but I might.... I adjusted the parametric equalizer to suit my taste in how I think it should sound for long periods of listening. I really don't do much of any fiddling with it anymore.
 
I am neither. I first find a speaker with accurate sound reproduction and then I put no EQ in there at all. My intent is to get as close to real life as possible and I want to hear like I was there and not like I wish it was with my flavor of the day added to it.
 
Just a hint of emphasis on the treble to properly cover the mids because of a crossover frequency that's a tad bit too high.
 
I'd have to say treble. This crosses over to musical instruments as well. I prefer single coil guitar pickups to humbucker pickups because of the chimey brighter tone.
 
For me bring on the BASS. I love my frat house music sound. I'm no audiophile, I'm just a straight up boomer dude. I listen to music to relax and be filled with a unique werewolf inspired joy all my own. Audiophiles analyze music to be filled with a myriad of never ending questions & insecurities. My BASS sound speaks to my soul. I've nothing to explain!
 
I'd say that personally, I am rather a "Wide-Band and Balanced" kind of Tone preferences...
It probably come from the fact that I listen much to EM...

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