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Good Analog EQ

Looking to integrate some form of analog EQ as a temporary solution until I change my speakers (which is going to take a while).

I can appreciate that adding anything into the signal path is not ideal but I'm wondering if it might be a worthy tradeoff since I have a fairly high resolution system but am not hearing it all because of too much bass (and yes, I have some room treatment already).

If I unplug the low frequency speaker cable from one speaker I get a huge improvement in detail (but of course suffer in other ways), so I'm thinking if I get my hands on some decent equalizer I might be able to improve things.

I use digital room correction for digital sources, but obviously don't want to do this for LPs.

Thanks in advance.
madfloyd

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mothra
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Speaking as someone from the pro audio community, I would offer that there are a number of excellent eq's depending on your price range. I would not use a parametric eq of any kind with a stereo system. They are a diffferent animal and meant pretty much for surgical stuff. A transparent broadband eq could be fine or you could go for something with a little more color.

The trouble with pro audio stuff though is that most of it is parametric. EQ causes phase shift so you have to be careful but your ears can be the judge.

A pass filter set might do you well too depending how severe your problem is. These are passive and so they really don't degrade the system much.
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