I have seen people very excited about the fact that Apple have added an Equaliser to the forthcoming AirPods “”””””””””””””””””””Pro””””””””””””””””””””” (emphasis mine) firmware. But guys it’s a THREE band EQ. Three. bands.
That is literally no better than the old “Bass / Mids / Treble” tone controls on low end hi fi of yore.
I’d love to know the rationale that led to that decision. It’s certainly not even close to being a technical limitation - anybody who knows the capabilities of the H2 etc chipsets that power the current crop of Pods knows that they could probably piss a 64 band linear phase EQ (quantum hardened natch) and twelve convolution reverbs. But seriously they are already EQing probably at multiple stages in the audio path (not to mention they also have the power of the main device at their disposal). And they SHO AIN’T limiting themselves to 3 bands. Even the built in EQ presets available in the Music.app System Settings are known to be at least 8 bands - probably 10 actually like the iTunes EQ.
ANYWAY so yeah it’s not a technical limitation; if they believe it’s a cognitive limitation on their p̶r̶i̶s̶o̶n̶e̶r̶s̶ customers’ part then that is … bad; what else could be the reason?
Seriously it’s worse than nothing, almost. As long as you only want to attenuate one of the bands you’re fine but they’re too wide to really do anything more complex than one band, or maybe bass and high but not mids.
Is it that they really think people are too stupid to handle any more than 3 bands? Graphic EQs are among the most intuitive audio tech there is. You move the thing up or down and a certain audio range is affected.
*tin foil hat replaced* maybe they’re trying to hide something… something that us m̶u̶g̶s̶ users having access to a more accurate EQ that maybe will be implemented on the H2 chip would reveal….? I’m choosing to believe this as it is the least evidenced, most paranoid option.
Just put a decent EQ that runs on the phone and stop bloody pissing about, you have bigger fish to fry ! #airpods #eq #beta