First the good news. This is one of the cleanest digital graphic equalizers you’re going to find. It’s probably a lot cleaner than the EQs in most of the other media players you’ve used in the past. That’s because it isn’t adding a lot of other distortion to compensate for volume issues. If it runs low on headroom it just turns the volume down automatically instead of clipping. That’s also why it tends to be quiet.

Now the bad news. You probably don’t want to use it. The artists and engineers who mixed your favorite tracks spent a ton of time mixing their tracks to get them just right. If they needed equalization they almost certainly had an analogue EQ that sounds better than any digital one is going to sound. EQs are just one of those areas where analogue is much better than digital.

One last problem is that many of the tracks you have are in proprietary formats that we can’t crack. We can’t get at the raw data. So our EQ won’t function for them. If you use non proprietary formats like FLAC or Ogg Vorbis, you’re in great shape. Otherwise our hands are tied. We can still play them, but we don’t have a lot of control over the way they sound and we can’t EQ them.