Equalizer in a Hi Fi system

i am pretty sure you are right!

But i had no  extended experience with EQ as you demonstrated here...

Just an anecdote :

My analog tone control of the Sansui alpha are very good...

It is the top of Sansui design history...

My AKG K340 are a TOP headphone for many reasons...

 The electrostatic cell of this hybrid work gradually  till 4,000 HERTZ crossover for the dynamic cell...

 If i boosted with my tone control  the higher frequencies, the violin become celestial honey and any bass head will become High head...

This prove what good analog tone control can do ...

I cannot do that with my digital equalizer which i use also to reach nearer Harman curve (with success though)

But only the tone control give me ecstasy after hours of violins listening on good recording with no fatigue, no tinnitus, or stress... On the contrary like a bass head i want more higher frequencies..

 It is also proof how a K340 well driven can reach (deep bass and out of the head sound-stage with natural timbre) i never touch in any of my other 10 headphones which are  in the bin trash now...(Save the sextett K240 as secondary tool designed by the same Dr. Gorike as my K340 even if for sure they dont even compare they beat the AKG K701 unnatural timbre )

If i had money i will buy one of the EQ you recommended for sure....

But i am happy as i am right now with my 2 systems anyway...

i just wanted to confirm from my experience what you just said :

No doing cuts with a digital EQ or crappy analog EQ will NEVER get the kind of full saturated, note dense, 3D, harmonically pleasing, “tone is king” kind of result I’m getting.

“ If i boosted with my tone control  the higher frequencies, the violin become celestial honey and any bass head will become High head...”

I love this quote. Exactly!

@mahgister ,

I wish I could hear your naturally tuned system with the resonators you use coupled with your Sansui EQ!  I will simply bet for the relatively small monetary outlay that it sounds heavenly!

My first acoustic dedicated room takes me 2 years full time to make... (100 Helmholtz resonators among many others devices)

I sold my house 2 years ago by obligation...

 My second dedicated room is smaller and not comparable to the first, good but with smaller speakers, and in nearfield...

my main system is now  AKG K340 for serious listenings...

It rival my first room near it but do not beat it. No headphone can beat an acoustically well done system/room...

 It takes me 6 months to experiment with the K340... Trust me to optimize it you must understand how it work.... Expert headphone reviewer gave it a critics not completely positive because he did not know how to use them... It takes me 6 months  and using the patent...

All my other headphones sound like trash  ( 2 electrostatic, 2 planars  6 dyna«mics) i never go back to them again..

I used the sextett also designed by Dr. Gorike for my secondary system (documentary, series, youtube etc)..

My small speakers are so well embedded now i can listen music but it does not equal the K340 naturalness and holography...I use the Douk T8 pro tube  equaliser, for the low price which is very useful...

I dont need more because you cannot couple a thousand bucks equalizer with low cost active speakers...

 I wish i could bought the EQ you recommended but i will never upgrade my speakers systems and the K340 go astoundingly well with Sansui alpha tone controls...

@mahgister ,

I wish I could hear your naturally tuned system with the resonators you use coupled with your Sansui EQ!  I will simply bet for the relatively small monetary outlay that it sounds heavenly!

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