Don’t Be Fooled! How to Properly Read Frequency Response Graphs

This video shows you how to properly interpret room frequency response graphs from REW (Room EQ Wizard) or product marketing materials, so you can prevent yourself from getting misled from data that's not presented or compared in a fair manner.

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⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:37 The X-axis and the Y-axis
01:26 How the Y-axis Can Drastically Change the Graph
02:15 The Y-axis Fooled Many People (Including Me)
3:03 The Y- & X-Axis Need to Have the Same Ranges for a Fair Comparison
4:34 Having the Same Axis Scale Does Not Matter
5:34 Reading the X-axis
6:03 How Smoothing Can Fool You
07:25 Two Examples of Misleading Frequency Response Graph Comparisons
09:22 You Can Still Find Usable Data in Misleading Comparisons

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