My sacrilegeous question to audiophiles out there regarding parametric equalizer.

Do you want to listen to the band, or do you want to be in the band?


Ages ago those were the rage; if you didn't like how the music sounded you could change it, but you always kept changing it until you had no idea what the original record sounded like.


If you're a music lover, stay as far away from those things as you can get; however, if you want to change the sound of every record to suit your personal taste, by all means get one.

Musicians spend their entire lives learning how to play their respective instruments, and then they get with other musicians who are compatible to make music; when all are satisfied they lay down tracks of recordings.

You buy this music, and screw it up with an equalizer; like Pokey says "It's your show, run it any way you want to"

Only someone who is not an audiophile would ask such a question. Do you want to hear the band, or do you want to be in the band? Maybe the bass drums not loud enough; "Think I'll just turn it up a bit". "I do not like the tone and timbre of that clarinet, let me tweak it a bit; now that sounds just right".

Oh, the marvelous things one can do with an equalizer.