On January 28, 2021 at 10:55, tomciara said...
My personal experience is that it is a small percentage of consumers that like truly flat sound. If you flatten out a room, it may sound too “neutral” to them.
If you go back to two channel days, the bass/treble/loudness got considerable tweaking.
If you belong to any two channel vintage groups now, and you see pictures of systems with graphic equalizers, they will almost always have the “smiley face” adjustments in play.
Flat can be boring, Happy Face matches our hearing unless the speakers are already bass and treble-heavy.