anselld wrote: > You just get used to hearing the music as the musician/producer > intended it.
As filtered by your amp, speakers, room placement, room acoustics, etc. > I dont know the theory, but the reason most highend > systems dont have tone or equalisers is that it is impossible or very > difficult to design one which does not in some way detract from the > overall quality of reproduced sound. The theory is straight forward. Most audiophiles want a wire with gain. The less in the path, the less chance for something to screw it up. All reasonably priced analog "tone controls" or equalizers mangle the signal phase. And phase is critical to realism. Some mangle it terribly, beyond recognition. Serious professional studio equalizers cost about a thousand dollars per channel. It makes no sense to put such expensive parts in a preamp when 99% of the folks will never use it. Nearly all serious audiophile integrated, and obviously all preamp/amp combinations, make it trivial to patch in an EQ for those who want it. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
