iPod Touch Equalizer FLAT vs OFF

They are the same thing.

No, not really. They're only the same sometimes ...

Off means Off, and Flat can perform the same as Off depending on how your music is encoded. If you have songs that have an EQ preset in their tags, then Flat tells the iPod to use the EQ that is preset in the song. For songs that do not have a preset EQ, then Flat is the same as Off. More info:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61567

This was what i thought too, and deleted the post, thinking it was wrong, thanks.

Note that all/most of the iPod user manuals are incorrect and the article linked here correct.

The user manauls state, "If you assigned an equalizer preset to a song in iTunes and the iPod equalizer is set to Off, the song plays using the iTunes setting. See iTunes Help for more information."
This is wrong.

Chris CA wrote:
Note that all/most of the iPod user manuals are incorrect and the article linked here correct.

The user manauls state, "If you assigned an equalizer preset to a song in iTunes and the iPod equalizer is set to Off, the song plays using the iTunes setting. See iTunes Help for more information."
This is wrong.

Link, please?

Thanks Chris, this tripped me up a long time ago since the manual is wrong and you put me onto that Apple article (which I've bookmarked for reference) 😀 .

Link to the user manuals?
http://support.apple.com/manuals

Can't find this in the touch manual though.

Oh, I just realized I misunderstood your post. You were referring back to the link from rockmyplimsoul. I misunderstood your use of "here." That's the link I was looking for 🙂 My bad.

Sorry. Yes I meant the link in this thread, not a link in my post.