I've seen this mentioned a few times, where someone says that your "beating your frequency response into submission" by "over-EQ'ing" the response. I'm kind of curious what is really meant by this and why it's a "bad" thing.
Let's say that you just installed new speakers and you are EQ'ing each speaker to a particular curve, whatever that curve may be. Why is it a bad thing to use as many filters as needed to "shape" the response of the speaker exactly how you want it? At the end of the day, I would think that you'd want to have the response of each speaker match the curve of your choice as closely as possible. Why not use as many filters as needed to accomplish that goal? Why would you NOT want to make it match your target curve as closely as possible if you have the bands to spare? Are there any "cons" of doing this?
I mean who cares if it takes 20 PEQ filters to get the response exactly how you want it? Regardless of *why* you need to use so many filters, doesn't the ends justify the means? I mean if you can reach your goal with EQ instead of having to make physical changes, why not? Why not take advantage of the functionality offered by modern DSP's to do most of the work for you, if possible?
I'm genuinely curious to hear peoples opinions on the matter.
For what it's worth, I'll use as many of my 31-bands-per-channel of PEQ filters as needed to correct the response of each speaker - and it seems to work extremely well for me. Even if I use 5 filters just to make small .5dB corrections in 5 different places - why not? Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't - but what does it hurt? Just curious why it seems so "frowned" upon to use "too many" EQ filters...
Thank you!