Trust Schiit Loki

The "best" signal is such a temporal thing. It is guesswork even by the original engineers.

They are trying to guess what equipment you will hear it on and what will sell the most.

The idea of being a purist, and instead of using tone controls swapping speakers and cables to achieve the best reproduction is absurd.

My problem with tone controls is only their implementation. I've had 2 high quality preamps, one of which had tone controls that were clearly audible, and my current one they are not. I mean by this the sound turned veiled and lost dynamics. I wish all tone controls were great, they aren't, but worth pursuing.

Yes, a simple and very useful tool. Anyone know why Shiit didn't include a 4 khz eq band? And where to find technical specs. like Q-values? 

"...low level evening listening it just gives that little bit of extra bass in the evening."

This is an appealing usecase. Do you have it installed between your preamp and the power amp? Also, do you find boosting the 20Hz signal blend well with your main speakers? I'm just concerned it might stand out as a "single note" bass and the main reason I've been avoiding the use of a subwoofer. My "main" speakers can go as low as around 45Hz.  

And where to find technical specs.

This guy's given some good info
https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/schiit-loki-eq-measurements.5153/

I have one and found it great with a other pair of speakers that needed lower mid boost to give the vocals some more body. 

Cheers George

Love Schitt!  No experience with the Loki but after 9 years of this crazy hobby I have tone controls on my AnthemI-225.  I find that I do use them on occasion but it’s more mood dependent than recording.  
I also am aware that different tone implementations yield different results.  Someone here was mentioning that they had the AnthemI-225 and moved to the Yamaha s1000 then S2000 (S3000? can’t recall) and they also stated the Yamaha's tone controls being better.

Interesting side note is that my Anthem’s tone controls disrupt the “purists” sound, and sound less intrusive, for a lack of better term, with my over the top speaker cables.  For further explanation, the tone controls, especially treble, is more satisfying with $2k Analysis plus cables vs $300 Signal Audio cables.  Go figure.

But yeah, whatever sounds best, do it.  I think it’s slightly comical that we’ll elevate cables, have everything placed within an 1/8 of an inch, panels hanging on our walls, sit in exactly the right place, but tone controls?  Oh hell no.  

Dsp is the future folks...