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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.

 

 

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slofut
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+1 for Yamaha Natural Sound loudness control. Is it not the one with variable compensation? Been a while since I’ve had one but if I could find an outboard example I’d buy it in a heartbeat for lower level listening. I also have a nad tuner/preamp with a decent loudness control.

Many of the examples mentioned are more eq than fletcher munson compensation, you don’t want the same boost at higher volumes.

Got excited about the Schiit Loki Mini only to find out it wasn’t tapered with volume. So it’s mostly just an eq? Am I correct? I think The only outboard FM loudness control I’ve heard of is a vintage Macintosh unit?

I hate to plug in another device in the signal path but I would in this case.

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