Measurements, EQ, and what we actually hear

[James]

I should add that the unsmoothed measurements had sharper peaks and dips than I hear - it was the psycho-acoustically smoothed graph that looked a lot like what I hear, but not completely.

I've always heard a couple of things that my wife doesn't hear, and it turns out I was right about them - that was nice.

But there are also a couple of things neither one of us heard that show up on the smoothed graph, which is interesting/puzzling.

And even the unsmoothed graph isn't bad, compared to some I've seen - the overall frequency response is about +/-7db, so no 20db peaks or dips.