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Behringer DEQ2496 - worth using in hi-end system?

I am considering trying it in a digital chain. I want to correct for room and any system internal dependencies. I am tired of using cables as tone controls, there has to be something better to make those minimal changes.

I am looking for opinions and short system desriptions.
spraglow
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eldartford
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Hey guys...don't waste a lot of energy avoiding use of the DEQ2496 A/D and D/A. They are good 24 bit devices, and if you keep the signal level up they will handle your 16 bit CD signal very well. One reasonable application of the DEQ2496 is as an "outboard DAC" (using its digital input) which just happens to also do room correction. However, this would limit use of the DEQ2496 to the CDP.
drubin
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It does and I might try it, but doing so would completely bypass the Exemplar tubed output stage...and what would be the point? Kind of like bypassing the APL circuitry.
Which is why separate DACs are making sense again, unfortunately.
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goatwuss
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I, like many audiophiles, have many sources that I use to listen to music. DVD player, CD Player, Record Player, Ipod, PS2, ...

I would like to explore the possibility of using the Behringer for all sources.

For those of you who have just set this up in your preamp's tape loop, how "transparent" is this piece?

In other words - in YOUR opinion, do the gains from room correction outweigh the negative effects of adding this piece to the chain and feeding in analog, and getting analog out.

Thanks
Goatwuss
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