Let me rephrase - I do most of my serious "music" listening on phones - so the "room" is not a factor. I am just fond of knowing that the computer is not adding (or subtracting) anything during playback and want playback as "pure" from source as possible. Could care less what volume it was mastered at - just as long as what I am hearing is exactly the way the engineer intended it to sound.
Like that Junkies record mentioned earlier - if the band/engineer wanted heavy duty bass throb - who am I to remove it? That's changing the whole dynamic of the record in my opinion. It's it's bassy -my system should be properly calibrated to reproduce that intent - with no cause for concern.
For what it's worth - I think "Baby Please Don't Go" (From UDSACD 4010) sounds killer via MC->Teac UD501->Audio Technica ATH M50 mastering phones. I wouldn't change a thing here.
Again, I am not explaining it right, or you are not listening to what I am writing.
I don't own any headphones...
I have my system set up for most music to play properly, as flat as I can get it. And most music sounds just great. But again, the Cowboy Junkies track (and most of their albums) have too much low bass content to play without adjustment, and I don't want to be making manual adjustments when one "normal" album ends and then the Cowboy Junkies are next in PlayingNow.
I have a Sunfire TSEQ12 in my living room, a Sunfire TSEQ10 in my home office and a Sunfire True Subwoofer in my masterbedroom. All simply put out too much output when playing (for example) that Cowboy Junkies track. I fear they might be bottoming and certainly it sounds over-bassed and I really do fear stuff falling off my walls.
I can't find much info via search on the "Subwoofer Limiter", one thread is off limits... If I can get it to work, and it has no effect unless the low freq content exceeds some limit, that might solve my issue. However, others might want other adjustments at other frequency bands and the concept of saving "named parametric eq" curves and then being able to set them on a track by track basic would work great.
Maybe the MFSL version of "Whites Off Earth Now" has a better mix than the standard version of the album I have.