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Best EQ settings

hiya i'm planning to buy a 3rd-gen iPod touch and was reading thru the features and notes on the device.

may i ask for you guys what is by far the best/ideal EQ/equaliser sound settings for the iPod touch for any songs in general? (i mostly got alternative/pop rock and deep/progressive house + trance songs.

thanks.

Intel Core2 Quad, Windows Vista, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7900GS

Posted on Apr 5, 2010 5:32 AM

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Apr 19, 2010 5:13 PM in response to Chris CA

AFAIK, to your latter paragraph, the music will play with whatever EQ setting is set in your iPod over the EQ setting of that same track/album as set in iTunes. That is, if you have your iPod set to Rock and the track/album in iTunes is set to Classical, the Rock EQ setting will play over the Classical EQ frequncy settings, similar to a double EQ setting. At least, that's how I understand it, while the Flat setting will allow for, more or less, clean EQ setting playthrough of what was set in iTunes. There will still be some sound enhancement, but since Flat allows for all frequencies to be at a balanced level, you'll mostly hear the iTunes EQ settings. It's almost akin to turning on Surround Sound, but leaving all the frequencies in the middle.

Apr 19, 2010 5:34 PM in response to oracle_ab

oracle_ab wrote:
AFAIK, to your latter paragraph, the music will play with whatever EQ setting is set in your iPod over the EQ setting of that same track/album as set in iTunes. That is, if you have your iPod set to Rock and the track/album in iTunes is set to Classical, the Rock EQ setting will play over the Classical EQ frequncy settings ...


No, that's not correct according to Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61567

If a song has an EQ setting from iTunes, that setting will always be used on the iPod, unless the iPod's EQ is OFF, or if you temporarily override the song's EQ as described in the article.

Best EQ settings

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