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My experience with a different kenwood is that the presets were pretty bad for my 2018 brz. Instead, I made sort of a smile shape with the EQ and it helped. Bass: for the bands I went up +3, 2 and 1 on the first three bass bands respectively, went down a touch in the middle, and then up the same on the highs.
I do a lot of audio mixing so I have some experience with eq, I try to keep the changes subtle. What I find in the stock BRZ speakers is that there is a ton mid-range honk. So as you turn up the volume it sounds like the singer is shouting in your ear, the bass weakens, and the clarity is gone.
Cutting back the mids alone (not a ton, just a little bit) might help you start to hear the clarity of the highs and the thumps of the lows with out crazy boosting or listening louder than is ideal. In my experience vocals, electric guitars, and a lot of wind instruments and synth eat up the highs when they are too in your face.
For reference with vocals warmth is around 100hz, closeness is around 500hz-1khz, and s-sounds are around 10khz. Three songs that can you help hear those vocal characteristics well are Numb by U2 (100hz, about as warm a vocal as it could be), never there by cake (500hz-1khz, very telephone sounding vocal), and Torn by Natalie Imbruglia (10khz, lots of treble). Hope that helps.
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