For me the stock sound system is good enough. I just messed with the settings and found the sound I like....but as previously mentioned I'm older now so all I care about is well it sounds while I'm in the car. I no longer feel the need to advertise my music to everyone else in a 2 block radius

 

I too work on studio monitors a lot, mixing audio. All I really look for in the car is a setting that will help me confirm if what I'm working on in the studio is translating well. It's a small tweak, but it stays out of the way of coloring my mixes, as well as being fine for all commercial CD tracks. If a mix has good response at this setting, it will work with the more heavy handed settings that typical listeners go for- such as more extreme bass/treble. Let's face it, there isn't much room for tweaking with the stock unit. But more often than not I'm listening to my own mixes and need a pretty flat response out of the Fit stereo. That's not usually what a typical listener prefers.

Dan

 

So without an RTA and just using my ears, it's nice to know they are still working! LOL! That's my setting on the nose. I suspect 40Hz drops dramatically because the Fit's stock speakers can't really reproduce it well. Most consumer speakers give you little to nothing below 50Hz. The better the speaker, the more it'll give you down there. Honestly though, there isn't much to be appreciated when you get to 40Hz. Well...there is, but not in the car, anyway. Bass junkies find more to their liking between 60-80Hz.

Dan

 

Yah, the only real option to get a flat response curve is to use a real equalizer to adjust the settings or run something like JL's Cleansweep. With no real sub, the stock speakers aren't too bad. And you do have good ears. (=

BTW, the Bass is centered about 80Hz and the treble centered about 6-8kHz.