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Originally Posted by bigshot
The things that many audiophiles take for granted, like a flat frequency response, are the things that *count*. Think about it... When a set of speakers is rated to +/- 3db, can you hear what 3db sounds like? Yes. You can hear it, I can hear it, my 85 year old mother can hear it. And +/- 3db is REALLY GOOD SPECS for speakers.
If you run a signal through a silver cable and compare the output on the other end to the output of copper zip cord, it isn't going to be anywhere near as great a difference as that. In fact, the frequency response problem is going to be easily several orders of magnitude greater.
Next, pull out the specs for your system. Look at the specs for your CD player and amp. Compare those to the specs for your speakers... Again... not even in the same ballpark.
Now, look at your room. Is it acoustically perfect? Is the sound that comes out of your speakers exactly the same as the sound you hear in the room? I bet there are very few here who can answer yes to that. What's the point of spending a boatload of money on a sound system only to put it in a room that thows the frequency response off as much as 20db?
So, why are people worrying about minute differences in cables and distortion levels in CDs that don't even come close to the levels in their speakers, when they could be spending their energy correcting problems that are clearly audible... with a little bit of simple equalization?
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I've always found equalization "cure" the sound results in a good ( not bad ) way .
In my system , equalizing helps to correct the tone of the music .
this is a fact for me , as I use equalizer with the aim of finding out the best "right tone " for different classical instruments - when I've worked out what's the eq. setting in my system ( it takes some day , i do not overfuel with sound my ears and tend to do the operation in days while giving ears the relax they need to stay *bit* more objective ) so I really think equalizing can help .
When i change a gear ( IC , for example ) i re-equalize , but not as a rule , just to find out the best timbre , again .
When I'm set on one eq I've built up through many days of relaxed listening , it lasts as the best eq. (sound) for a long time(ever) , and even if i test it ( trying moving subtly up and down some levers ) I return to the parameters set I've set . If i cut off equalizer , I listen to the system for a time to get accostumed to a new sound again , and to be able to discerne subtilities , thing that's not possible to do in a session only .
Then -again- I spot some flaws I want to correct , and start recalibrating the eq ( in general i tune right tone of instrument through many cd ). End -surprise- I end up with a very close if not the very same eq. set I had before .
So ( my opinion ) ..
is true every system has some colours ,more or less, and equalizing helps to *cure* the overemphasis and bumps ( and micro bumps ! ) of frq.s that results off a particular system gears combination .
..and I see synergy as a combination of colours ( , that eventually may sort out a good sound )
Sorry if I'm repeating again here things I've said yet around .. but waht I think is that when one decide to add a good equalizing system to the chain it's not so easy he's going back to not eq. after hearing the general tailoring (=improvment for me) he can have on the sound
[size=xx-small]and , again (disclaimer ) I admit and want to say that hp-2 helped me a lot doing the fine tuning - before them it was more difficult and more braining to find the " right tone " [/size]