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Headphoneus Supremus
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I'm one of those people who have a hard time discerning well-encoded MP3 from lossless. Anyway, it's my experience that additional electronics in the signal path have a significant impact on the purity of sound. That doesn't just apply to equalizers, but also to amps (I've done several experiments comparing «direct connexion» and headphone amps). Note that analogue equalizers make the signal path extremely complicated, hence have a correspondingly negative impact. And digital equalizers will make your select integrated CD/multiformat player sound as good as the DAC in the EQ. Moreover, you can't use high-rez sources with it, unless you additionally use the built-in ADC... So additional signal corruption is programmed. The only way to avoid this kind of damage is to restrict yourself to redbook CD and use a separate DAC, so you can switch the digital EQ between your transport and your DAC.
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Originally Posted by NajoBB /img/forum/go_quote.gif One question: why everyone thinks that equalizer do more damage (distortion) than benefit when majority of the people that I've seen post here can't even tell the difference between mp3 and lossless? |
I'm one of those people who have a hard time discerning well-encoded MP3 from lossless. Anyway, it's my experience that additional electronics in the signal path have a significant impact on the purity of sound. That doesn't just apply to equalizers, but also to amps (I've done several experiments comparing «direct connexion» and headphone amps). Note that analogue equalizers make the signal path extremely complicated, hence have a correspondingly negative impact. And digital equalizers will make your select integrated CD/multiformat player sound as good as the DAC in the EQ. Moreover, you can't use high-rez sources with it, unless you additionally use the built-in ADC... So additional signal corruption is programmed. The only way to avoid this kind of damage is to restrict yourself to redbook CD and use a separate DAC, so you can switch the digital EQ between your transport and your DAC.
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