I’m not genuine audiophile, but I’m working my way up there.

I think EQ would be important for sure.

For me and I thought process and actual practice, EQ is the last step.

First is obviously equipment. Good electronics and good speakers.

I want to make sure that the music entering the space is as good as it can be in terms of clarity, dynamic range, etc.

2nd is room treatment. All the electronics and speakers won’t mean crap if I’m sitting in a concrete cube with reflection, abound. I’m currently in the process of actively working on this aspect of my space. I’m building bass traps and acoustic panels to place around my room. Bass traps have the obvious positions of ceiling to floor in all 4 corners. Then I will build my acoustic panels and get those placed around. That will be a lot of trial and error at first placing them in spots, listening, adjusting, repeating. This also includes diffusers. Just need a few in a couple of places. But will be building and adding those after all sound absorption work is complete.

Once I have great electronics AND a well treated room, then I will properly EQ the system. I need to have everything in place before EQing. It doesn’t make sense to EQ a lot before treating the room as I’ll just have to do it again since the acoustics of the room will be changing it.

I look at EQ as the final spices to a dish. You go and cook your food. Taste it and say, oh yeah, I need a little more salt, basil, and pepper to make it taste just how I want. That’s EQ to me.

Why don’t people talk about it a lot? I’m guessing it just isn’t as sexy and talking about the 4-5 figure cost items people buy and place in their rooms. It’s a lot more fun to talk about your Trinnov or you Martin Logans or whatever. Than it is to discuss the mic you place on your couch or how you spent the last 3 hours on your hands and knees listening to your bass peaks and valleys. Unless your someone walks in on you doing it and you can laugh at how absolutely insane you must have looked.