Need a preamp with tone controls!

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.

The Parasound P5 and P7 both have tone controls, but not the JC-2.

The P7 is a much better pre than the P5.

What is your setup?

70's and 80's are the golden years of great pop/rock sound...

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?

Yes, I have the 802s, all drivers are in great shape. I bought the Parasound Halo A21 under many recommendations. Very happy with it! Currently using an NAD integrated amp for the preamp. It has tone controls, is probably the last item stopping total sound refinement. I agree that 70s and 80s music is the golden age...at least for me. Thus the desire for tone controls to correct room acoustics and poor recordings. The Parasound J2 would be my first choice if it had tone controls. I am looking for that level of quality, but used from Agon/ebay, or store demo pricing. I haven't seen tone controls on Vincents either, which model/s? Classe CP800 also has them but I'm not very fond of how those look...too retro-futuristic, allhough great performance and quality. I like the idea of trying a tube preamp to soften, a bit, the sound of my entirely solid state system.