Eh...I will go without, thank you. A truly great system does not need them.
The guy is a idiot.
Agreed on the latter part but for the first part? Tell you what, we shall just agree to disagree. I personally do not believe that any tone control gets one any closer to "the truth". An altered frequency spectrum perhaps with better sound to some but with other compromises added into the mix for me. Compromises that I am not personally willing to accept.perhaps, but then great system can be made 'true' with them perhaps ?............. besides not everyone has a perfect room for their perfect 'gear', granted it's all encompassing to be 'truly great' !
Hahaha! Agreed.I did enjoy his jab at those shunning tone controls and then buying into MIT's 80k speaker cables !
No amount of EQ will help them. Need an example? Try any one of Adele's albums. Tom
The guy is a idiot.
The guy is a idiot.
How so? Is there a problem with the logic of his argument?
I do not know about the guy, but the article is extremely poor, filled with misunderstandings about HP and others writings, and even the objectivists are poorly represented. IMHO PSAudio should be more careful about what they post on their site.
why's that ? because he perhaps flies in the face of 'audiofool' ideology ? hey, it's on the internet, it's gotta be true .........
Agree! Not everyone has the perfect room acoustic for the equipment. Or maybe not the most perfect gear to work with. Tone controls can help with that
No, EQ, particularly using good software like Sonic Studio can help with that. Used it many times at shows with good effect.
Steve N.
Empirical audio
Agree Steve, but I am unsure if they have no negatives. I perceive a reduction in soundstage, depth and micro details as soon as I use any kind of EQ. I have tried many on my Mac Mini, and currently use Roon's built in DSP which is very good. But it does loose something. I find it best to use it to a small degree, maybe 3dB max, and watch the levels don't crash through the 0dB limit. I am not sure, but I believe applying ANY DSP is thus resampling the data with the respective loss of doing that, bit like doing a photocopy off a photocopy if you like.
Everything else, hardware and software that I have tried colors the sound.
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