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I think a call to the US Distributor may be in order. Lew... I agree that the DEQX is likely NOT plug and play. From what I picked up from the DEQX web site, one can pay extra for a remote professional set up. To me ... that is just part of the cost.

Honestly, I am a frustrated scientist. This stuff is very interesting to me. Problem is my IQ isn't high enough to get the math and science. My math skills are just a little north of the "Jethro Bodeine double-knot head cyphering" level.

Here's a guess ... I surmise that if the DEQX's hype is fairly stated, it may do more for my rig than stepping up to $25+ Magicos S speakers. There is nothing wrong with the drivers in my Paradigm S8s. We're talking about a low distortion beryllium tweeter, an aluminum/cobalt mid and polypropylene/mineral infused woofers. I have a sub to augment bass roll-off. The basics are all there.

I'll report back.

Cheers.

P.S. I have a better chance of sneaking the DEQX into my house than new speakers. That factor alone weighs heavily in favor of the DEQX. :)

Al -- you are always the voice of reason. What are your thoughts? Could this be transformational or is that un likely?

Al -- you are always the voice of reason. What are your thoughts? Could this be transformational or is that un likely?

Thanks, Bruce. I would certainly expect it to make a very major difference, and hence be "transformational." Having no experience with it or comparable products, I of course can't say how the pluses and minuses (if any) would be likely to net out. But given Psag's comments (and I know from other threads that he is into very high quality equipment), and the writeups at the website, which strike me as confidence inspiring, as I indicated earlier it's certainly something I'll be considering whenever I next look into making a major change to my system.

Best regards,
-- Al

The Holm site has an interesting, albeit monotone, video tutorial how these things work. Specifically his, but generally for all.

Al's last post is what I needed to take the next step. A call into DEQX is in order. For some reason, my gut tells me I might get more bang for the buck going in this direction than by dropping a wad of cash into expensive speakers. I'll be back.

Al -- off topic, but there's another speaker cable thread running. I asked a serious question. If you catch the thread, please share your thoughts there. If not, my question is why wouldn't heavy gauge romex (say 10 or 12 gauge) make for good speaker cables?? What electrical properties would expensive designer cables have that heavy romex lacks. Isn't this all about resistance, inductance and capacitance?? Is there some other electrical voodoo or snake oil I am missing???

Bombaywalla, the DEQX is not plug and play. The correction requires separate measurements of the drivers and the room. Generating the appropriate corrections is not a trivial matter. For me, having the distributor come to my home to do the installation was the only way to go, but some do it themselves. Once a year or so, we will meet up in a remote session over the internet to remeasure and tweak the curves.

Levinskih01, the volume control is superb, although it does not have as many steps as my ARC preamp. One nice thing is that I can keep the ARC at its optimal volume level and do the volume adjustments with the DEXQ. For digital sources, I bypass the preamp. Although some tube richness is lost, I want to get the maximum resolution possible from the digital source. With an analogue source I slightly prefer having the tube preamp before the DEQX, but I don't consider it essential.