Equalization


I have noticed many Integrated Hi End amps do not have any EQ.
Why?
How do people adjust their tone or why they do not?
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Snake oil is good for the hobby. 🐍 It greases the wheels of progress and makes everything run smoother. Obviously not everyone is on board the progress train and that’s OK. 🚂
The best use of tone controls (which went out-of-fashion in high-end in the 70's) is to correct for the differing balances found in recordings. The Quad pre-amps had (have?) great ones.
The best use of tone controls (which went out-of-fashion in high-end in the 70’s)

Yes they did, but from those that have it, this now has turned the tide on those old tone controls, and from reports here on A-gon, it sound very good. And it tunes in low bass, upper bass, midrange, and treble.
http://www.schiit.com/products/loki

Cheers George
What a great product, George! It was the nature of the filters in the Quads that made them so useful---shelving vs. roll-off, etc. I'm going to look further into the