[timmerk]

well - why? it does not work for me - even at high volume routed through my car stereo (Infinity Kappa 3Way speakers)

[sirlexelot]

Um, if you have a big and fancy car stereo, the last place you want to be making any sort of EQ adjustments is in the iPod itself! You want the sound as flat as flat can be until it hits the amplifier, which in this case is your car stereo - and even then if the stereo's good enough, you should leave it flat.

If you're listening to the iPod with the earbuds, you can hear a pretty good amount of difference between the various EQ settings. When using the buds it came with, I highly reccomend the "rock" setting - those buds may be relatively bassy, but they also have really thick and muddy mids. The "rock" setting boosts the bass and highs, separating them more clearly from those muddy mids. Anyway, that's my two cents!

[Todd Madson]

My wife and I tried a number of settings during our car trip and found
that "electronic" or "dance" worked best for the variety of stuff we
listened to, even headkick rock music. The bass boost was far too
bassy to be useable and "rock" was a little too feeble. The "dance"
preset was just bassy enough with enough upper mids and highs to let
us hear everything legibly. We both agreed these were the best. I
did switch to "spoken word" during a radio drama thing that was recorded
really quietly without any compression whatsoever.

[timmerk]

Originally posted by sirlexelot:
<STRONG>Um, if you have a big and fancy car stereo, the last place you want to be making any sort of EQ adjustments is in the iPod itself! You want the sound as flat as flat can be until it hits the amplifier, which in this case is your car stereo - and even then if the stereo's good enough, you should leave it flat.
</STRONG>

I know - this is what I do - I use my deck's EQ to change it, but it jsut gave me the idea to try how thte iPod sounded and it was horrible in comparrison. I was just wondering why it doesn't make that much of a difference to me. It must not be my hearing because I can clearly hear my car deck's EQ changes.

[CMYKid]

i've got an idea that really you're adjusting the frequencies but you really arent hearing the difference because your stereo isnt reproducing it. car stereos, Infinity, JBL or Delco regardless, are pretty low-rent as far as actual overall fidelity is concerned. sure, some are better than others but if you look at actual true reproduction of specific frequencies they dont stand up very well a'tall.

when you boost say, 125 Hz, or whatever the number on your cars eq is, it's NOT just boosting 125. its a sloping eq thats boosting a lot of other frequencies. this is not to say that the iPods eq is that much more accurate but car stereo eq's are pretty notorious for this. Remember the 'Bass' and 'Treble' sliders that used to be all there was? yeah.

simple equation...ifya hear the eq'ing in your headphones and not in the car then it isnt the iPod!

:ryan