Devialet in a state of chaos

[Seb310]

I went out to buy an equalizer a few years ago.
The people in several audio stores acted like I was crazy.

I happily use JRiver's EQ filters. I measure the room in R.E.W, then trim its filter suggestions down to a handful of filters beneath 300Hz, where I'm most sensitive to, whilst scaling them down to less than +/- 3dB. Since I've been doing this, I'm acutely aware of a major room hump at 65Hz, which I now cannot stand to hear.
I have a theory that if one's speakers are SAM'd (i.e. cone excursion kept under stricter control), then they might more accurately propagate the filter adjustments out to the real world(!)
As I've grown older, I've stopped obsessing about the pureness of the bits, and gone with whatever works best in the end. (The room is a FAR greater evil than impure bits!).

I performed nearly the same process, starting the approach by using REW measurment and a Behringer FBQ2496 for my subwoofer for Home Cinema.

For HiFi,  I didn't need room correction with wy previous speakers (I don't use my sub. for HiFi). But now that I own the Dev and speakers that allow very deep bass , I need a room correction and I use A+ in conjunction with Audiounits plugins to assess 2 peaks due to resonnant frequencies  (40Hz and 60 Hz) .

I do think too that the weakest link of a reasonably well designed system remains  between the speakers and our ears.