Suggestions for good cheap Equalizer

Get a professional EQ,
save money and have a long lasting EQ!

rane
dbx
etc.  
Happy hunting.

i use an aging ONKYO EQ 540.
still works great,all lights work, pink noise button,
6/12 -/+ button.
many features.



  

Maybe this is the direction to explore.There's a post somewhere here about it recently.Black Ice Audio Foz SS-X Sound Enhancement 

a white 4100a 10 bands per channel stereo eq used

Good, cheap and equalizer all in the same sentence. Choose one from column A and one from column B. You don't get all three at the same time.

Brightness can be the result of distortion- this is why solid state sounds bright. Its not much at all, but the ear is keenly sensitive to higher ordered harmonics since it uses them to sense sound pressure , which is a range of over 120dB. You could reduce this with a tube circuit- either a preamp or amp, since tubes tend to have less audible distortion in this regard- that is why they are smoother!

Yup; good, cheap and fast.  Pick any two because you can't get all three.  

I found that getting rid of stranded copper cables reduced the harsh or bright artifacts in the highs with my solid state set up.  Cleaner, more focus without harshness.  But if you need an eq, I owned the Loki and found it to be faithful to the signal and an effective component.