touchporter;696208 Wrote: > By other software alternatives you mean third-party EQ software? No I > have not. I am one of those who never touches tone control no matter > what. :D
Nowdays you can have you cake and eat it , my speakers have digitally implemented tone controls (and I'm pretty sure most other hi end and home cinema have or will have this ) . So you can control tone without nasty side-effects in form of added noise from a tone circuit . I usually don't use them every day or even every week for that matter, but for the really unbalanced recordings I do ,they actually improve if i do so it can't be bad . And I have a constant tillt of +1,5 db in base -1,5 dB in the treble due to acoustics and speakers placement . Treble fades away faster in air so any speaker have a distance where you are expected to sit I'm probably closer than expected due to a small room. and the designer have to make some assumption acoustics so if the room are a bit lively just adjust it . So there is no penalty anymore if you got the rigth stuff :D a pity that the old inguz plugin is not properly maintained it offered eq as a side effect of having drc , but it is a bizarre thing to setup, otherwise it would give you eq from the palm of your hand in iPeng for example. I think the rigid pow of "thy shall not use tone controls" commandment is a left over from the analog days . And frankly it did not always made sense then either hooray for defeatable tone circuits !! If you have the choice to suffer or make a mild tone adjustment what to do ? But again I only do this if it is obvious that the balance is cluelessly done, sometimes the producer and artist have some idea behind the sound and it is that I want to hear . But then they removed even the defeatable controlls for "purity" this was and is BS no one would be able to hear a contact surface on a relay or selector, but it was also cheaper to build and audiophiles love to pay more for less... Another example of that thinking take the top of the line CD player , remove the dac and stuff multiply price with 2 or 3 and now we have a transport ! enjoy . But this was overdone hence hanging out with the Squeezebox for a fraction of the cost for such device :) luckilly a big crowd of audiophiles is not bying that anymoore and we have a lot of streamers and pc stuff to chose from , at computer prices not hi-end hifi prices. The third choice is ofcourse buy an expensive power cord < or insert any cargo cult item > and try to placebo over it pretending it was suddenly fixed ;) If you have a resolving neutral hifi and the good music you try to listen is badly mangled you are going to hear it as is straight with no chaser whether you like it not :-/ but having a euphonic hifi that rose tints everything is not an option either , this will make the good stuff suffer instead , giving that sameness thta is the mark of bad hifi . If the treble or base always sound the same regardless of recording something is wrong . I can have glass cuting harsh sound (if it is recorded that way ) or silky smooth in the same equipment . it is a fallacy to believe hifi can make bad recordings sound good it can't You are in it for the music ? and starting picking music to fit the hifi ? Then I think it's time for the men in white coats to have a visit . Some music is badly produced or just produced without sq concerns and then we have historical recordings -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94155 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
