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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Equalizer query
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 22:46:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 22:46:01 1985
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Allow me to put in a good word for the Audio Control C-101.  I have 
lived with one for ...hmmm 5 years (?) or so now. I wasn't completely
sold at first, but as I have used others and read about more, my opinion
of it improves. It's like a good speaker* after a while it doesn't seem so
fantastic anymore, just everything else sounds awful. I'm beginning to
notice the same thing with CD's too, damn it, but back to the matter at
hand (or finger).
The display of the C-101 beats any other I have seen by a mile. Let's
say that an led display beats these fluorescent or whatever displays.
The time constants of the display are well chosen for a very fun to
watch display. Even useful and educational and good for trouble
shooting.
The equalizer (10 bands) seems pretty log-linear. Again, the human
factors of having the two channels of each band adjacent is a winner.
The other controls are swell in their action. Only sizeable screwup
is the sort-of black-on-black labeling which requires illumination
to read.
The EQ itself is very quiet (I haven't measured it (I'll bet Mitchell
has)) and it certainly is magic how a dismal rcording can be
transformed by just a touch of correction in one or two bands.
My unit used to oscillate in one channel of the 16khz band intermittently,
but I haven't noticed it lately and was never moved to send it back to
the rain forest to be fixed.
The manual was cutsey-poo, but they should have been able to improve it
in 5 years. Try a good mail order house for price. Though higher than
most of its competition, its not by much and worth it. The dis
play by itself is worth it. Go watch one some place. Mike and pink
noise generator were useful, too. Good luck!

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