Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-vgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-vgr!ron From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Equalizers Message-ID: <1182@brl-vgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 1-May-84 11:54:54 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-vgr.1182 Posted: Tue May 1 11:54:54 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 2-May-84 06:31:58 EDT References: <6640@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 34 I'm not sure of the model numbers but I used a soundscraftsman equalizer at the university for PA work. I have no complaints. And anything that can stand up to 6 years or so of being hauled around on campus and used for all kinds of things it probably wasn't designed for probably is as durable as you are ever going to need for home use. A frined of mine also has one of these and he has no complaints either. The neat thing about the Soundscraftsman (if this is the same model I'm thinking of) is that it is a preamp in itself. It has multiple inputs and a phono preamp so that you don't need to have a separate preamp. I personally have a ADC Soundshaper IImkII which I bought a few years back for about $250 and I have had no problem with it. The cute averaging LED meters which I thought was a worthless gimmick did actually turn out useful when I was trying to figure out why half the sound went away on a job we were doing. ADC is also sometimes marked BSR (they're the same company). As for parametric (why the hyphen?) equalizers. I used these on sound consoles for varying the individual inputs, but they would probably be a pain in the neck to use on the output like in a home system. Besides the little slide pots in the graphic eq look real snazzy in your system. Both ADC and Technics have sort of a combined parametric/graphic eqalizer. In each case it is essentially a graphic equalizer with a little know for shifting the center frequency around. I don't think I've seen one where you could vary the Q (narrowness) of the filter. Technics used to make (I don't know if they still do) a rather large single channel model that we used at the radio station. It was rather nice. They also make a smaller stereo one that was part of their discontinued flat line. The BSR one is just the top end of their line. -Ron