[eljr]

Originally Posted by chessman

While a true comment, it obscures what IMO is the real issue. For natural sounding bass, it is far more important to have relatively even decay times than a flat frequency response. I have used EQ to hammer out a table top flat frequency response graph only to have it sound artificial. While ARO is in fact single band, its real virtue is finding and attenuating the most resonant frequency. If each sub is set as master and run alone for the ARO test the results will be very lifelike, even if the frequency response graph is not perfectly flat.

Great post.