Will there be an equalizer to Spotify?

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/to... ( Delete or Edit)

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
We have a service with more or less decent audio quality, YOU ARE TRYING TO DESTROY THAT.

And why not use the EQ in the soundcards drivers instead?!
Vista have some basic EQ functions also, regardless of soundcard, but they're some kind of hidden. ( Delete or Edit)

I don't understand you, sorry ( Delete or Edit)

Hmm, no. ( Delete or Edit)

Absolutely not.

If a song is recorded and produced and mastered properly AND your speakers are perfect, you shouldn't need to use EQ on it.

EQ is something which you will use to adjust the sound to best suit what speakers you have (for example I have very powerful bass which I'd like to be able to reduce when it's late and people are sleeping). A standard EQ setting based on genre just doesn't make ANY sense. ( Delete or Edit)

Are you crazy? NO WAY DUDE ( Delete or Edit)

You can be a purist but still suffer from damaged frequency response in your hearing. Then compensating for the loss in range by tweaking the curves restores that listeners perception of a linear tone curve (while other co-listeners could disagree about the setting). Equalizing is personal, unless done for compensating for loudspeaker deficiencies. ( Delete or Edit)

The music as the artist/Mixing engineer intended, was mixed on a pair of monitors that have almost a flat frequency response, in a acoustical controlled environment (aka The studio). and as probably your sound system at home isn ́t adjusted to your room you ́d use the EQ to compensate for that ( Delete or Edit)

You can not compensate for bad acoustics with EQ (well you can sometimes make things a tiny bit better but then other things will suffer). ( Delete or Edit)

Of course you can, there's a technical term "tuning the room" where a mic'ed live performance is being done. Basically determining the rooms resonant frequencies, and using a graphic (usually 32 band) graphic EQ.

So by reducing the level that (per room) resonant frequencies are emitted, you will flatten the response of your speakers. ( Delete or Edit)

The problem with most living rooms is the fact that they are relatively small (acoustically speaking) and room modes make up a large part and the perceived sound and you cannot fix problems caused by standing waves with an EQ. A dip is caused by the canceling of sound waves in the listening position and if gain this frequency all you do is canceling these sound waves at a higher level (but you will still end up with a dip at these frequencies). If you have a peak in the spectra (usually also caused my room modes) you probably also have a high RT60 (reverberation time) at (or t least some of) these frequencies as well and that will not change if you add an EQ. If we are talking about live sound it’s another story since the spaces associated with live sound are a lot bigger and the modal area of the room is shifted as low (in frequency) so its effects are minimized and therefore it works to “fix” a trouble room with EQ in these situations. ( Delete or Edit)

I agree completely!! ( Delete or Edit)

ok, my mistake. I should have said that if the tune is well produced, your speakers are perfect AND your hearing is perfect..... but you're just being pedantic because, afterall, bad hearing doesn't make genre based EQ a good idea - unless it was specifically targeted at people with hearing problems.... and I don't think that's what NikolaiH had intended.

I'm sorry I overlooked the hearing impaired but I think you overlooked the context of my comment. ( Delete or Edit)

Should, *if* all apps were equal. They are not and play with different qualities. Not to mention not everyone just listens to music. You may have video players that use surround sound or play games also. You end up having to adjust the equaliser for different apps and many built in system equalisers don't have a concept of profiles. ( Delete or Edit)