Another convert here. I have the Max for three weeks now. It does work well for bad acoustics, no speaker placement options and no room treatments allowed crowd. Remote presets! Priceless.
Go get out your pitchforks, I’ve done a sacrilegious thing. . .
. . . I’ve added an EQ!
A Loki Max to be exact - and so far, I love it!
I believe in the purist approach for the most part, and I have a main system that that’s all about, but this system, this is my fun house system, but my room acoustics are not great in my living room. But that doesn’t mean I want crap sound in it either. The wife won’t let me treat the room, but frankly, that isn’t even the main reason I did it.
The system is basically Klipsch Forte III’s, Balanced Audio VX 3ix pre-amp, ARC balanced V35 tube amp, Bifrost 2 DAC getting sound from a Marantz ND8006 streamer. I put the EQ between the DAC and the preamp.
It’s dead quiet, and I can’t discern the difference in bypass mode either.
I figured it’s was a lot easier, and cheaper, to add this one component and get the exact sound I want versus going through a bunch of cables or changing out other equipment.
Soundstage is great, and there doesn’t paper to be any aberrations, but keep in mind this isn’t the most reveling system, another reason I wasn’t too worried about adding an EQ.
All in all, a good investment and make my music more enjoyable!
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I have 3 tube preamps, all with tape monitor switches and/or processor loops and a Loki+ which I agree is a useful and sonically uncompromising device. Only one of my preamps has tone controls of its own, and Loki is more subtle in its action, so I prefer it to the built- ins. |
@ronboco Asks a great question. I have a Loki also, but am reluctant to fiddle with it from song to song. |
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