![]() ![]() The graphic equalizers, no matter how many bands it has, involve more guesswork. Proper use of more modern digitally-controlled parametric equalizers involve a measurement system to identify the frequencies and band widths of unwanted or offending sounds that can be diminished or filtered out. And they invite the idle user to play with them. Personally, I'd stay away from used graphic equalizers because those slider controls easily oxidize and get noisy. This overreaction, taken to extreme, led to audiophile pre-amps that had no tone controls at all. It's my guess that the back wash in opinion against graphic equalizers led to the 'audiophile' overreaction where any tone control, including simple bass and treble controls, is thought to be as 'evil' as the misuse of graphic equalizers. If they are very conservatively used to reduce certain unwanted frequencies, they can help. Too many people were tempted to use them to boost signals broadly, with unfortunate results. Using graphic equalizers (usually with analog slider controls) in audio playback systems seemed like a good idea in the past, but has fallen out of fashion. Has anyone else done this, presumably with an equalizer (I haven't used one since the late Seventies). So that got me to thinking how fun it would be to continue to isolate various players and their performances beyond just turning off one channel. Lennon too on Not A Second Time pulls off a creative "blink" upstroke on his Rickenbacker that is barely noticeable on the stereo mix until the right channel is turned off. Paul's vocals and other instruments overwhelm Harrison in the background but if one turns off the right channel, there it is plain as day and creative as heck. ![]() For example, I never heard before until last night George Harrison's nifty little riff played twice on I Saw Her Standing There even though I've heard that song played ten thousand times over the past 50 years. What I would like to do is, for select tracks, enhance or diminish i.e. I like the way my system sounds so far as-is so I am not looking to an equalizer to help it fit the room or vice-versa. Is there even such a thing as an "audiophile-grade" equalizer? ![]()
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