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In Reply to: A Pair of Inexpensive Components that make an Awesome Difference posted by tantra on April 13, 2007 at 18:30:05:
I've got the Benchmark and the Behringer. Actually, I've got two of the deq2496's but am only using the one in my living room system. It makes a huge difference in an untreated room. My main system is in the basement so I don't much care how it looks. There are 28 Risch type home-made bass traps and another 15-20 fiberglass on plywood or styrofoam panel type absorbers down there. In addition, my speakers, b&w n802's, are much less prone to excite room resonances in the bass than other speakers I've had so the combination of the excessive treatment and room-friendly speakers makes the behringer unnecessary. The measurements could be improved by the behringer but deviations in the lower frequencies are small enough to not be worth messing with. I am using the behringer digital crossover, dcx2496, with a pair of subs crossed over in the 30-35 hz range. It gives better control than anything out there that I know of and is cheaper than the deq2496.I think one of the main reasons people prefer to spend their money on wires that make very little difference rather than on room treatment and bass eq is that it's just so hard to feel cool in a room full of bass traps and/or cheap looking pro gear. Not to mention the humiliation of actually measuring the frequency response and fiddling with an equalizer. The only thing I can imagine being more humiliating than that is spending hundreds of dollars on a power cord.
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