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In Reply to: I broke all the rules and got the best sound ever - Teresa cover your eyes :-) posted by albertoderoma on September 13, 2006 at 18:46:15:
That's weird! I can listen to my set amp at low levels, clear as the blue sky without the need for "equalizer".
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> That's weird! I can listen to my set amp at low levels,
> clear as the blue sky without the need for "equalizer".My second system is an SET/high-eff setup (Bottlehead). Which I bought for low-level listening. It sounds great, but unfortunately it has exactly the same issues at low level because SET/high-eff does not change the ears' sensitivity to frequency. By "low listening level" I mean an average of 60-65db (A-weighting) - perhaps we have different notions of low.
But I grant you that SET/high-eff comes "alive" at lower volume than PPs. My SET/high-eff, comes fully "alive" (i.e. I don't feel much need for loudness eq) at ~70db, for my main, PP, system I need about 75db before some loudness eq becomes unnecessary.
> ... "clear as the blue sky" ...
It's not a matter of clarity, but of rich and realistic sound at lower listening levels.
Alberto
Me too. SET + efficient speakers = good at any volume, I find.
Since every phono preamp has RIAA EQ?OK, so it's a smart alecky question, but with a serious point. Both phono and analog tape have EQ and de-EQ as part of the picture. In fact, I understand that a lot of record mastering facilities have their phono cartridges individually EQed to get flat response so the mastering engineers can get the best evaluation of the cut lacquer in comparison with the master tape. A lot of audiophiles seem to equate equalization, tone controls, etc. with herpes, but proper equalization has the potential to IMPROVE sound quality, even with the extra circuitry involved. IMHO, YMMV.
Smart alecky indeed.A good designer of a phono stage will go to great lengths to try and get as close to the ideal De-EQ as possible to 'decode' the RIAA encoding. Do you think that same designer would ever put a big dial on the front so that user could have a tweak for themselves?
No, because it would end up wildly inaccurate.
Also, let's look at the type of EQ that's being talked about here. It is a digital EQ - if I'm not mistaken then this means turning the signal into a digital one - applying algorythms - and turning back into analog. It's proably like most digital out there - initially sounds extremely accurate and lifelike BUT becomes tedious and hard to listen to over long periods - the exact opposite of straight analog.
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