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    Posted: 12 April 2022 at 3:32pm
I’ve been looking into how active studio monitors can achieve a nearly flat frequency response. For Example if you search up the frequency response of the Yamaha HS-8 it is nearly dead flat. Is this done purely in hardware and cabinet design per am I right in thinking that they firstly make it as flat as possible in hardware, then they add a digital eq which takes the speaker input, digitalizes it and applies an eq that is the opposite of the frequency response in order to even out minor lumps and bumps and then convert that back into analog before being amplified?
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For most of them, the former.

On modern units with DSP, a bit of both.
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Can’t make up for bad acoustic design in the first place. It’s a room ‘correction’ tool that works over a very small listening area.

Same for applying an inverse FIR filter from a measurement. It's a 1D solution to a 3D problem. There's a lot more to getting a good result than just measure, invert, apply.

You have to actually understand which element of the loudspeaker design is causing which effects. Then treat each of those with appropriate methods for your goals & limits - including budget, size, and time.
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Those Yamahas might be flat but they are still some of the worse sturio monitors out there.
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