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Originally Posted by khail19
Depends on the class you compete in, but generally...
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No microphones are used in an SQ (Sound Quality) competition, just live judges. Also, the fact that the judges are human makes it very subjective, and even in the home setting a perfectly flat response isn't very pleasing to the ears.
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Thanks, this explains much. Humans are a terrible judge of reproduction accuracy since most people have never heard flat response much less good stereo separation. Wave form comparison with high end certified mics should be the test.
I don't agree that flat response sounds bad. I haven't done it since I changed furniture, but the pink noise calibration mode on my EQ at home lets me get reasonably close to flat response and with decent source material, that sounds very good to me.
Once I have that set, I don't mess with it much unless I substantially change listening volume or the source material is crap, and then I do gross changes with loudness, bass or treble controls, not the EQ.
Perhaps foolishly, but I assume the sound engineers doing the final mixing on an "album" do so in an acoustically accurate environment using high quality calibrated monitors. Maybe that is naive.