Decisions, decisions!!

[el_duderino]

And I guess I don't get what you're reacting to.

On the Internet, when someone puts a smiley after something, that usually indicates that it's a joke. If you want to be offended by a joke with a lot of truth to it, I guess I can't stop you - but is was only a joke.

As far as the "adjust away" reference, I think this is a very cool feature of the Digital Reference amps, and I am telling a lot of people about them.

That BMW DSP EQ is not very flexible, has center frequencies in odd places (the lowest "slider" is above the subwoofer's crossover point!), and unless you are adjusting it with a real-time analyzer, you're not "correcting" for a vehicle's interior anomalies, you're making it sound more subjectively pleasant to you (not an evil goal, but not one that gets to hide behind the cover of "correction").

As a professional, I have seen many speakers damaged by customers who felt that their EQ should allow their speakers to play sounds that they just didn't mechanically "want" to play. Rarely I have seen systems where everything else was optimal, but didn't sound worthwhile until you got a user-adjustable EQ.

What I tell people, as a professional, is NOT to budget for an EQ unless you are getting the best speakers you can think of. If the speakers could still be better if you upped the budget by the amount the EQ would cost, then get the better speakers instead of the EQ.

This may be interpreted as anti-EQ bias. If so, that's probably pretty accurate.