Yeah, there's clearly confusion here. The article and GGP are using "flat" to mean "bad". The GP is using it to mean "flat frequency response", i.e. good. Unfor

Yeah, there's clearly confusion here. The article and GGP are using "flat" to mean "bad". The GP is using it to mean "flat frequency response", i.e. good. Unfortunately, all small speakers sound awful uncorrected; there's no way to make a flat-as-in-good laptop speaker. The question is how would those speakers sound with software DSP for correction, which is standard on other OSes but not Linux.