Right, I understand the personal preference thing for house curves. It's the measurements of the pycho-acoustically smoothed response before any eq that show things we don't hear that are puzzling.

If we don't hear those, maybe we don't need to "correct" them with eq?

The things I mentioned were peaks, with the eq corrections. But there are also some nulls, which I sort of understand aren't correctable with eq. Fortunately we seem to hear peaks more than dips, so it's not a big problem.

It sounded great before, and sounds really great now, both on our test cd and with music - I think I can stop trying to improve things for a while (my wife will be happy about that :-)), at least once I get the room mode corrections done.

I think I'm close with those - and they're bigger corrections than any of the REW ones.