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I miss my Loudness Button and Tone Controls....

So I recently upgraded my system to a Rogue Audio Sphinx integrated amplifier, V2.

Prior to this purchase I was using a NAD C162 preamp, and an Emotive UA-200 amplifier.

After a month of listening, I have to say, I miss the tone controls and the loudness feature on the old NAD pre-amp, especially when listening at lower volumes. The Rogue amp sounds great when played at a minimum of 50% of its output, but at lower volumes, it just seems flat. I do use a sub (SVS SB-2000 pro, and I'm using a very efficient speaker (Zu Audio DW's).

I've toyed with the idea of buying an EQ of some sort that has a bypass so that I can boost some of the frequencies when listening at lower volumes, and then bypass when I listening at higher volumes.

Any thoughts on this? Anyone experience anything similar? I'm about to pack and sell the Rogue amp, as the cons outweigh the pros for me.

 

 

barkeyzee1

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drmcdanielsdc
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I was in the same boat as you sir! Even so far as to pull up the Cello Audio Palette circuit diagram and see what was so good about it.

There are a couple simple solutions:

A. get the Schiit tone controls

B. get a DAC with LOUDNESS feature.

I went with an RME as my DAC, it has a unique loudness feature. Google the manual for it. It changes with volume. I also remapped the EQ front button to turn loudness on or off. I use a different Preamp.

Have fun and take care, let us know what you get. It’s a common problem.

Posted and saw your phono problem, looks like Schiit for now. Or get another Preamp. I'm A/B ing the RME, I have the Anniversary edition for the extra analog input to run my phono. Will let you know how it goes. 

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