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In Reply to: RE: Tone Controls in preamps and their valuable uses at times. posted by Michael Samra on May 14, 2016 at 23:41:20
I can't comment on the electronics of tone control, but I have multiple sets of speakers in the same general area that can be connected to a multitude of different amps (all tube at this moment, and all different types of power tubes) in a less than ideal setup in very imperfect listening area with aging ears. Even relatively minor changes in volume can produce drastically different response in my systems.
I want things to sound "good" to me, and I really don't care about anyone else's opinion when I listen to music by myself (which is 99% of the time). If I could not play with the tone controls on my preamp (which is a McIntosh SS), then I probably would not enjoy listening very much.
While I do have various tubes I prefer in my amps over others (both input and power), it is usually not because of the sound profile (I tend not to hear all the level of difference that people spend countless hours discussing on this forum and others).
For me, it is tone controls that allow me to adjust everything to what I want to listen to at that particular moment.
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I want things to sound "good" to me, and I really don't care about anyone else's opinion ....
Boy that sure makes sense to me. I don't GAS what others think either. If someone wants to cough up some cash, I'll make the "improvements". Better yet, just give me the cash. I don't chase my tail.
"I can't compete with the dead" (Buck W. 2010)
"It would take me forever. I don't think I have forever" (Byrd 2015)
and hifalutin remarks about using some of your system as a "tone control" . A good example is ones preferences regarding cable.
I bought some really nice Cardas Golden Reference ICs a while back, for the way music sounded through them. They made my whole system sound better to me. Don't even get me started about employing certain tubes for improving the sound either. Come to think of it a lot of tube provide some control over tone.
What's this forum about- in part anyway??
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