Found this discussion to be interesting as a new 2024 1500 Limted owner. I have always been a bit of a sound enthusIast, from car to home. My initial impression was my 16 year old self would love this thing, lots of muddy boom that makes things rattle. So I decided to test it and make some adjustments, knowing that the three band EQ will do very little. Here is my test and findings.
truck on accessory with no fans on in my garage. Placed a Dayton Audio mic on a small tripod sitting on the center console at ear level. Mic plugged into iPhone collecting RTA data through Sound Tools app on 1/3 scale. Plugged iPad into input one playing a pink noise file. Audio settings were centered on EQ, surround sound on and balance set to center. Here is initial reading.
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Not surprised and confirms the over bass in this system. 200hz and below blowing everything else out. Dropped bass to -9, Mid to +9, and Treb to +9 and got this slightly improved curve but still way strong down low. Also adding to spikes at 600 to 800 and 4k-10k.
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one last change was to move balance from centered to slightly forward with the same EQ settings. Like this.
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this actual pulled the bass down and kept the rest of the curve about the same. I’m going to leave it like this for a while and see how I feel about it on various sources. But the data says this is as good as it gets with what we can adjust, but tune to your liking.
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hope this helps some others.