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From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Equalizers and Me
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Date: Wed, 9-May-84 11:51:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  9 11:51:15 1984
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COUNTER FLAME.

1.  30 K worth of acoustic foam will not help your room any.  Not
    too many of us can afford to have a room large enough for
    ideal listening.  (Although 30K is probably a good down payment
    on a new house).

2.  If you can hear equalizers all the time, then I don't suppose you
    like listening to recorded music, because nearly every recording
    board I've ever seen has at least a three band parametric equalizer
    sitting on each channel that the engineers love to tweek, so they
    are very often not flat.

3.  Most people set their equalizers to what they want the material to
    sound like which is not necessarily flat.  Just a matter of taste.
    If you like yours vanilla than go ahead and save the money on the eq.

Due to the need for some acoustavoicing (all though this is a poor substitute
for having flat components and an accoustically nice room) and to adjust for
peoples taste in eq, equalizers are probably here to stay.  I bought mine
because my AMP and PREAMP don't have any tone controls.  Most of the time
it does stay switched out (mechanically) but I had a slight boost around
5k for a while due to a odd shaped room I had.  I also use it for squelching
the high end of things that are either scratchy (sorry no SAE 500's or Carvers
yet) or have not quite ultrasonic components in them.

-Ron