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Need a preamp with tone controls!

OK, most audiophiles would say I shouldn't need tone controls, but I have a good system that plays QUALITY recordings beatifully, so much that it makes me not even want to listen to many of my 70's & 80's stuff. This comprises the largest part of my collection. So I've been looking at McIntosh preamps...great tone controls/equalizers, etc. Any others out there of audiophile quality???
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wolf_garcia
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Vincent makes preamps with tone controls. Luxman also.
erik_squires
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Tone controls help us compensate for differences in recording trends across decades of recordings.

Tone controls help us adjust our sound quality to different listening situations and volumes.

Tone controls help us adjust for speaker placement.

Tone controls are much cheaper and more efficient way of doing this than most other solutions.

A good tone control is a lot easier to implement than a good equalizer. Fewer bands so more affordable to use high quality parts.
erik_squires
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The Parasound P5 and P7 both have tone controls, but not the JC-2.

The P7 is a much better pre than the P5.
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shadorne
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What is your setup?

70's and 80's are the golden years of great pop/rock sound...
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shadorne
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I found somewhere you have B&W Matrix 802 which should be absolutely fine unless you have a very undamped room or the speaker has developed a problem - is the tweeter Ferrofluid dried out or could a driver be damaged and distorting?
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