To tone control or not to tone control

Tone controls are a necessity on alot of music. All you naysayers dead against them are correct from a textbook standpoint,but you must understand that all music is not Lyrita, RCA Living Stereo, Mercury etc. Put tone controls on those and you will ruin the sound. I am a back to mono man musically, I mean, that I listen to mostly artists from before 1958. The greatest voices ever recorded( I'm talking Ezio Pinza, Tito Schipa, Titta Ruffo, Lawrence Tibett, Billie Holliday, etc.)very much do need tone control compensation.In fact, I need to switch preamps for older music because my tone controless preamp does not work at all with them.
78 RPM transfers onto CDs are particularly offensive with a top end that simply isnt there. Tipping up the response with a good tone control makes them appear to have the data again.
Mark Levinson (the man), saw that some of his favorite music from the mono era was just that way and adressed the problem incredibly with the Palette. How I wish I could have afforded one.

Whats up Doc? I'll buy the tone control argument, but I got real problems with the tube one. Have you witnessed the evolution of solid state since the early 60s? I have and can tell you that it took solid state untill the 1980s before it became even mildly competitive with tube circuitry. The reaction we had to early solid state was the same one we had with early digital. "Is that a violin or a buzz saw. It turned this wonderful, all tube, Living Stereo recording of Heiftz into a buzz saw...on BOTH occasions! Today, solid state amplifiers are of course much improved, but high end manufacturers are trying to get them to sound tubelike, not vice versa. Even RCA and Mercury saw it that way when the reissue series for Living Stereo and Living Presance began. They just were not able to get the desired result with Solid State. By the way I have never heard a solid state amp or preamp sound as real as a tubed one...not even once. Sorry, but thats the reality of the situation.

Hi Doc, Bruce, Greg, Artemus. Doc I absolutely DO agree that many tweaks ,like green pens and the like ,are an insult to our intellegence. There are though, many phoenominon that continue to go unexplained by rational science. (like why does my system sound so much better when the speaker wires are not under the metal baseboard radiator?). Yes , we tried it blind, the difference is not imagined. I do try to keep an open mind to all reported unexplainables, just for that reason.
As far as this rating system, Biz is right on. I am here to learn and discuss opinion, not to be graded on my content.

Just for all your info, the posting on this thread that I made on 4/8, just received -2,-2 after it sat with no rating all this time. Guess its the same fellow who got you guys. Come on out of hiding guy, lets talk like grown ups.