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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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gemoody
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I have been looking at the JBL SA750 integrated amp, lots of features packed inside.  It doesn’t have tone controls, but some have suggested that the DSP the same, sounds complicated to me.  That’s been part of my hold-up.  I’m not glad you’re having problems, but good to hear of your experience. I’ll guess I’ll stick with that my vintage Sansui, for now.  
 

Back in the day I owned a Technics 8055 equalizer with a spectrum analyzer. Very cool, albeit blingy, piece of kit.

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