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Not surprised one bit

The relatively small negatives one may incur from the DEQ2496 are simply dwarfed by the positives if your room needs some EQ, and if your room has walls, it probably does.

Breaking rules? Here's how I use my DEQ when I listen to vinyl (have a barfbag ready): Turntable to Creek OBH12 preamp, tape output of OBH12 to my Alesis Masterlink digital recorder which samples at 24/96 - output Alesis digital signal to my DEQ2496 (with a non-digital cable bought at a guitar shop) - DEQ reads 24/96 signal and outputs back to my Creek. Oh yeah - because the output of the DEQ is so high (5v or something - like all pro gear) I don't put it's output directly back to the Creek, it first goes through an intervening preamp a Sonic Euphoria. HA!

Sounds great - nice tonality, soundstage way beyond the speaker boudaries, nice depth all things considered. Sure, I can bypass that entire digital loop and play my turntable directly to my preamp - but it's such a muddled bass mess that it's not even possible to compare. I could put the turntable output directly to the DEQ2496 and let it to the A/D, but I want to be able to record to my Alesis anyway so it might just as well stay there.

I just threw on my technics recently because I wanted to start collecting records - my parents drove it to me 1500 miles in the trunk of their car, under luggage, without removing the platter. It was my turntable in high school actually. Threw a DJ cartridge on it, got a preamp from a guitar store (click here). Sounds bloody good!

The interesting comparison will come when I record to the Alesis, cut a CD, and play the CD back with my better DAC from my computer hard drive - same bits as go to the DEQ, but now played back through a better DAC. Haven't really gotten around to that yet, I kind of like watching the records spin, plus when I cut a CD it will have to be 16/44 instead of 24/96


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  • Not surprised one bit - longtimequadowner 12:50:56 09/14/06 (0)


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