Dynamic EQ?

Are there any audio cards out there that supply some type of dynamic EQ? I know there is a variant in the receiver world, But Im wondering if there is any for the pc add on card.

i.e when a gaming app is recognized, it switches to an EQ setting geared towards gaming sounds, when an audio app is recognized it gears towards music playback, and movies and so on.

Has anyone heard of something like this?
Do you guys think its a good idea, or a failboat?

Just to clarify... (I don't have a suggestion based on this understanding either, I'm afraid...)

You're looking for a card or add-on that changes preset EQ profiles based on the media being played... Much like most audio programs will do when songs that have their genre defined in the ID3 tags will do in the audio program?

I honestly doubt there is anything like that for a soundcard, though. Never read of such a thing before myself.

Idea's good! I probably wouldn't use it personally, prefer tuning my room acoustics than tweaking EQ but it definitely would find use.

Are you looking for a similar approach to SLI/CrossFire profiles or just a generic game setting?

I think hes looking for this tech in a PC sound card:
http://www.audyssey.com/audio-technology/dynamic-eq

Don't think it exists in a PC, you would have to get a receiver. It is a very awesome technology too. I do use it in my Denon receiver for my home theater.

No there's nothing like Audyssey for any soundcards. I asked Audyssey that question and they said nope. They are interested in licensing it, but no SC companies have approached them.

I believe the OP is looking more for a profiling solution that would switch between pre-defined EQ settings based on the application being opened. Sounds like the same concept to me as game-specific Crossfire/SLI or keyboard/mice profiles. I am also unaware of any current solution that would do this.

While this sounds like a great idea in theory, I would think you'd have one huge gap to overcome - sound cards are going to use only a single EQ setting at a time, and you have the potential to have more than one program producing output simultaneously. So let's say that you have Game A set to use EQ1, and Media Player B set to use EQ2. You open Game A, sound card switches to EQ1. While Game A is still open, you also open Media Player B, which then switches the sound card to EQ2.

Just my personal preference, but not sure why you would want different EQ setups for different audio content. I'd rather get the EQ set to my audio preference and have that applied to all situations?

The Audyssey Dynamic EQ thing seems to be a different function, but from what I gather this isn't much more than more refined dynamic range compression? Not really sure what the difference is?

BTW, those "graphs" on the Audyssey site... talk about graph fail. They're not clear at all, and if I am interpreting them correctly, even possibly contradictory to what they claim in the text.

I was just wondering if there was something out there that predefined itself for your usage