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I dunno, with that mantra RR, you simply resign yourself to not having a real system in a vehicle.

I can drive at 65 down the freeway and have a system that easily overcomes road noise and still sounds just fine.

You're giving up on this thread? Let me bring you another level of understanding...the meter is a measure. Your definition of flat response is a bit off.

Flat response is :"A characteristic of an audio system whereby any tone is reproduced without deviation in intensity for any part of the frequency range that it covers."

You are referring to flat response in relation to a microphone. When referring to flat response on a microphone: "An ideal 'flat' frequency response means that the microphone is equally sensitive to all frequencies. In this case, no frequencies would be exaggerated or reduced (the chart above would show a flat line), resulting in a more accurate representation of the original sound. We therefore say that a flat frequency response produces the purest audio.

In the real world a perfectly flat response is not possible and even the best 'flat response' microphones have some deviation.

More importantly, it should be noted that a flat frequency response is not always the most desirable option. In many cases a tailored frequency response is more useful. For example, a response pattern designed to emphasize the frequencies in a human voice would be well suited to picking up speech in an environment with lots of low-frequency background noise.

The main thing is to avoid response patterns which emphasize the wrong frequencies. For example, a vocal mic is a poor choice for picking up the low frequencies of a bass drum."

You keep referring to flat response alone without connecting the definition of flate response meaning that a measured flat response sounds like crap. If you sit the RTA in your listening room and put white noise through the meter, you won't have a "flat response" curve. You'll have peaks and valleys in the acoustic response. With those peaks and valleys, you'll probably have a great sound.

One last shot to you...

A meter is absolutely NOT worthless. It helps you visualize what your ears are hearing for true to the source music. This is what I get to play with:



^It absolutely helps seeing what your filters, slopes, crossover points, time alignment, and amplitude levels. You can't get that just your ears...at least you can't follow everything you've tried without pages of notes and a hell of a lot more time.