Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

[Atmasphere]

I sharing my experiences.
I gave some extra advices like the polarity and the phase, that usually are not shared, when the topic is the de emphasis curves for stereo records.
You can say that I should lower the vta for Mercury records and that is the right thing to do, but for me it is not right, than so what, is it a false statement?

Those are red herrings and very different from EQ.

Its true that various labels have a different 'house sound' but its incorrect to say they used a different EQ other than RIAA.

 

[Massimo66]

Ho appena cambiato il mio stadio phono su CH P1 e vorrei esplorare il mondo delle diverse curve di equalizzazione. Potresti indicarmi qualche tabella o guida di riferimento rapido su quando provare una curva diversa. Inoltre, CH ha una curva RIAA migliorata con costante di tempo di Neumann abilitata. Devo provarlo con ogni disco o ci sono alcune regole su quando potrebbe funzionare?

Grazie in anticipo.

https://www.goldnote.it/download/media/PH-1000_EQ_Card.pdf/. I found this on the Golden Note website. It is very complete. And it is also partially adaptable to my Allnic phono.already published by Ked

 

[Massimo66]

Thinking back to this whole discussion. But when you change a cable in your system, at best, aren't you in some way equalizing the system by trying to linearize it or make it more transparent? in the same way it is possible to use those phono preamps that allow you to modify the curves to vary the timbral or tonal balance. in reality, especially in the period from the 80s to the 90s, there are a mountain of LP pressings (especially of pop music) that really suck where some sound engineers had no idea what the difference was between a trumpet and a horn English. Not to mention some reissues where the extremes of the band are exaggeratedly emphasized in order to enhance the performance for those who enjoy music through bad earphones.

 

[Atmasphere]

Thinking back to this whole discussion. But when you change a cable in your system, at best, aren't you in some way equalizing the system by trying to linearize it or make it more transparent? in the same way it is possible to use those phono preamps that allow you to modify the curves to vary the timbral or tonal balance. in reality, especially in the period from the 80s to the 90s, there are a mountain of LP pressings (especially of pop music) that really suck where some sound engineers had no idea what the difference was between a trumpet and a horn English. Not to mention some reissues where the extremes of the band are exaggeratedly emphasized in order to enhance the performance for those who enjoy music through bad earphones.

Going with 'no' in this case. Start out with the correct EQ. If the system doesn't sound right to you, try a different source to make sure you know what you're hearing. Why change a phono cable if the problem is speaker placement?

BTW all phono cables should be low capacitance. They really should not be affecting the tonality. A high capacitance cable, combined with a high output cartridge can contribute to brightness in the extreme highs due to an electrical resonance caused by the inductance of the cartridge in parallel with the capacitance of the phono cable- which is why you want to keep the cable capacitance to a minimum (and also why loading of high output cartridges can be pretty important, unlike LOMC cartridges where the 'cartridge loading' resistor is really for the benefit of a phono section with design problems rather than the cartridge).

 

[Arpeggione]

Thinking back to this whole discussion. But when you change a cable in your system, at best, aren't you in some way equalizing the system by trying to linearize it or make it more transparent? in the same way it is possible to use those phono preamps that allow you to modify the curves to vary the timbral or tonal balance. in reality, especially in the period from the 80s to the 90s, there are a mountain of LP pressings (especially of pop music) that really suck where some sound engineers had no idea what the difference was between a trumpet and a horn English. Not to mention some reissues where the extremes of the band are exaggeratedly emphasized in order to enhance the performance for those who enjoy music through bad earphones.

Perfect!
Same thing with Vta/Sra, anti skating,tracking force etc.

 

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