Right then. I've been dabbling with my eq settings for a while now, and got things to sound ~reasonable~ but I'll concede that I do indeed need to use active crossovers to achieve this.

So, yep, you were right and I was wrong :-)

For the time being, I'll be keeping the equaliser settings to try and cut some of the low freq stuff from my front speakers.

During my playing, I've noticed some very odd behaviour; I have a 4 channel eq profile, with the front 2 channels all flat except a -30db cut at 18Hz, with Q of 24. The rear 2 channels are flat except a -4db cut at 40Hz, using default Q values. This gives approximately the right audio effect I'm after, but:

If I switch between this eq. profile and the default flat profile whilst playing any music the sound output completely cuts out! When I first tried this I thought I'd killed the empeg or my amps, but switching the player off and on again makes it then work with either eq profile. If I pause playback and then swap eq's, I can resume playback and it works fine with the new eq. setting. This is really weird - I presume there's some kind of limitation with the DSP that doesn't like extreme changes being applied during playback?

I've not yet tried this with the new beta13, so not sure if it's a known bug. There seem to be some issues with empacman working on beta 13, so I'll be waiting a few days before I do this upgrade.

It would be good if somebody else could confirm this odd behaviour on their player? Or am I just going mad?