[linux-audio-user] customize equalizer for XMMS?

Here's the background: I'm using XMMS-1.2.10 on Fedora Core 5 to listen to various things, mostly MP3 streams from Internet radio stations. I've a nice pair of cans, Grado SR125, that are used for listening. http://www.gradolabs.com/product_pages/sr125.htm The SR125 cans are nice, in fact, they're very analytical and quite revealing. Not exactly best for listening to 128k streams, but hey, that's what I got, that's what I use. The problem: The Grado cans are a bit too harsh for my ears. I very much prefer the Sennheiser HD600 but I'd rather keep the HD600 at home and drag the SR125 at the office to take a beating. The frequency response graph for the SR125 shows some peaks in the mid-high range, which are probably part of the cause for the harshness, and also a cliff in the low frequencies: http://www.headphone.com/products/headphones/all-headphones/grado-sr-125.php I would like to re-create the negative of that graph in an equalizer and apply it somewhere in the chain. I looked at the equalizer that comes with XMMS but there doesn't seem to be a way to create a graph that's so fine-grained. There's only a limited amount of controls that cannot seem to be tweaked. How do I create such a detailed equalizer graph and apply it to XMMS? This machine does not run JACK and I do not intend to change that. I'd like to keep it as simple as possible since, after all, the primary purpose of the system is to do work, not listen to music. Is there any player that can play MP3 streams and has a better equalizer? Any other ideas? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/