ford2
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I ended up selling all my stereo system components and put the money into a good AVR.
Originally Posted by ford2 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I ended up selling all my stereo system components and put the money into a good AVR. |
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Originally Posted by Redcarmoose /img/forum/go_quote.gif The use of EQ in high end is like taking Kool-Aid and adding it to a $350.00 bottle of wine. The use of EQ in the past was to debox those huge boxy speakers we were all using. The only reason people used EQ was because there was a way to boost the mids and remove the lower mid box sound which all those speakers seemed to do at the time. If anyone goes back to their attic and brings down a pair of those monoliths and plugs them in for about 10 seconds they will realize it was just the sound of the times and the altered mood that they were in around 1978 which made it all sound so good. |
Listening tests to commercial recordings and my own DAT head-related recordings revealed a very realistic tonal balance, frequency extension, superb detail and dynamics without using any equalization. When I actually listened to a slow sinewave sweep, I found a fairly broad peak centered at 3.8 kHz, a mild peak at 5.9 kHz and another peak at 9.2 kHz. I made no attempt at equalization, because the realism of the E2 is so convincing. Also, at all frequencies the sound seemed fuller than with the other models, though I cannot explain why it should. |
Originally Posted by Redcarmoose /img/forum/go_quote.gif The use of EQ in high end is like taking Kool-Aid and adding it to a $350.00 bottle of wine. The use of EQ in the past was to debox those huge boxy speakers we were all using. The only reason people used EQ was because there was a way to boost the mids and remove the lower mid box sound which all those speakers seemed to do at the time. If anyone goes back to their attic and brings down a pair of those monoliths and plugs them in for about 10 seconds they will realize it was just the sound of the times and the altered mood that they were in around 1978 which made it all sound so good. |
Originally Posted by Redcarmoose /img/forum/go_quote.gif The use of EQ in high end is like taking Kool-Aid and adding it to a $350.00 bottle of wine. The use of EQ in the past was to debox those huge boxy speakers we were all using. The only reason people used EQ was because there was a way to boost the mids and remove the lower mid box sound which all those speakers seemed to do at the time. If anyone goes back to their attic and brings down a pair of those monoliths and plugs them in for about 10 seconds they will realize it was just the sound of the times and the altered mood that they were in around 1978 which made it all sound so good. |
Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif I don't use one because my view is that if you need equalization, then you have a problem somewhere along the line. |
Originally Posted by Redcarmoose /img/forum/go_quote.gif The use of EQ in high end is like taking Kool-Aid and adding it to a $350.00 bottle of wine. The use of EQ in the past was to debox those huge boxy speakers we were all using. The only reason people used EQ was because there was a way to boost the mids and remove the lower mid box sound which all those speakers seemed to do at the time. If anyone goes back to their attic and brings down a pair of those monoliths and plugs them in for about 10 seconds they will realize it was just the sound of the times and the altered mood that they were in around 1978 which made it all sound so good. |
Originally Posted by Shark_Jump /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have got around 200 CD's, IMO only around 10-20 of them have been really properly mastered/recorded/produced/engineered and don't need some form of processing / EQ. If I may continue your analogy, the majority of my expensive wine is corked. Does your high end system make crappy recordings sound good? I would have thought it would make them sound worse as you can hear how bad they are to a higher accuracy. |