Are you most times a treble or bass biased listener?

[odcics2]

No tone controls on my P/LD-2000 preamp.

I like to hear the actual recording, good or bad. But for bad, I seek the best mastering available.

 

[leesonic]

It's all about that bass, 'bout that bass, but with some treble.

 

[gadget73]

in a rare moment of tone control use, the work stereo is currently +1.5 on the bass control and +1 on the treble. Scale is 5-0-5 so those numbers mean nothing in particular.

 

[Caveman Carl]

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!

The meaning of the term "audiophile" has evolved quite a bit over the last few decades. It still applies to the stereotypical "effete gentleman nesting in his private lounge, listening to the opera with his $9,000 integrated, feeding his $36,000 speakers with his $4,000 headphones by his side" image, but has widened to include those who use bass and treble to the max and even (gasp!) EQ to tailor the sound to their taste on whatever equipment, as long as it costs more than a 1980s tinny boombox. Bass is cool but at 63 my hearing is not what it was 20 years ago, so I use treble for medicinal purposes, let's say.

 

[THEWEREWOLF]

I'm older than you by a few years and yet I know exactly what you mean. Like I said I love my BASS and yeah I turn it up to Frat House levels. That said my hearing while still quite good for an old codger like me-self is not the best and don't reach my apex of past discernment. No today I get my full bodied Treble via a set of B&W FPM-5's the brightest speakers on the planet in my humble opinion. With a pair of B&W FPM-5's you can hear a water starved goldfish gasp for air in the back row of Carnegie Hall. I just add a subwoofer and I'm set.

 

[Adaboy5]

BASS How low can you go!? I love sub bass in music.

 

[jsisk]

I like to be able to hear every instrument clearly. Whatever it takes to make that happen is what I prefer. (and do)

 

[Caveman Carl]

I'm older than you by a few years and yet I know exactly what you mean. Like I said I love my BASS and yeah I turn it up to Frat House levels. That said my hearing while still quite good for an old codger like me-self is not the best and don't reach my apex of past discernment. No today I get my full bodied Treble via a set of B&W FPM-5's the brightest speakers on the planet in my humble opinion. With a pair of B&W FPM-5's you can hear a water starved goldfish gasp for air in the back row of Carnegie Hall. I just add a subwoofer and I'm set.

You are set indeed. From what I have read about that slim speaker, it is bright, but it's lively bright, not fatiguing like, say, modern Klipsch speakers are (my personal opinion). Obviously, they are designed to be used with a sub, and since you wrote BASS in capital letters, I imagine yours is the type with performance that registers on the Richter scale.

 

[djwhy60]

Most of the time my tone controls are flat...my speakers have a tendency to over play highs AND lows....but I will turn the bass up more that treble in the truck.

 

[spicer]

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!

If the bass isn't right then nothing is right. First thing I notice is full deep bass flowing into the room, it makes the system.

 

[Mattster]

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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Compensating for older ears and loss of high frequency hearing I will usually tweak the treble higher first, adjust mid but not too much and bring bass up last but still a little heavy depending on what Im listening to. Some of the details do seem to get lost when bass is cranked to super high levels esp if it gets sloppy loose.

 

[Quadman2]

Compensating for older ears and loss of high frequency hearing I will usually tweak the treble higher first, adjust mid but not too much and bring bass up last but still a little heavy depending on what Im listening to. Some of the details do seem to get lost when bass is cranked to super high levels esp if it gets sloppy loose.

I've had more of and issue, trying to dial in the desired amount of "bass" on the VW Jetta's radio. A lot of the prob is with the different genres offered, and the lack of quality in the transmission.


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