Agreed, it doesn't attempt to handle phase relationships as would an expensive Tact unit for example. But I only EQ bass and the effects on phase from say 250Hz down are far less evident than if one were EQ-ing the critical midrange region. I bought it to take the boom out of the room, and it does that with no apparant negatives, far better than my expensive ASC tube traps ever did. With my Quads + Behringer, I can hear soundstage info pasted to the left/right walls of my 23' wide room and a smooth spread of sound from stage right to left - so if phase is reflected in imaging, there's no problem when not EQ-ing above the bass. Abient recordings image waaaay outside the speaker boundaries, even on some MP3 stations, and dance and techno are a pure acid trip. This all happens with the Behringer's internal DAC which was just a pleasant surprise and bonus for me - I wasn't even sure it had a DAC when I bought it, I thought it was a purely digital device considering it's cheap price.
There are a few professional reviews out there that compare it's digital to it's analog mode, and although they generally say it's fine in analog mode, but the digital mode is far superior - of course in analog mode, you have to undergo an additional A/D conversion to get the advantage of the Digital EQ, so it's no wonder things are getting rough when you go that way. When I run the digital signal through the Digital EQ with no EQ settings - all flat - there's no difference at all. When the EQ settings are changed to equalize the bass the difference in quality of sound overall is so massive once the room-boom is gone, trying to split hairs over minute changes in transparancy is near impossible, and pointless really compared to the overall improvement. Them's my ears anwyay, in my room. The reason I mention this is that after having suffered with room problems for the past 15 years of my audiophile career, I've never found anything so remarkable in it's level of improvement for so little money - $300 US street price - I'd hate to see others pass up such a bargain if the have roomboom problems. My ASC tube traps were thousands and thousands of dollars, and so terribly ugly - they're long gone now, got back fifty cents on the dollar for them, for a net loss of many thousands. -- quadguy _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
