Level adjusting speaker drivers

@russ69 -- "Unfortunately it's an indication that your loudspeakers are not cutting it. Even without any tone controls, all your music should sound great with no reason to adjust things."

I have to somewhat disagree with that -- recordings are all over the place in terms sound quality. The vast majority of commercially recorded music has already been mixed, eq'd, limited, compressed and otherwise processed to some degree. Different artists, engineers and producers have their own opinion as to what a particular recording should sound like, and that will also be influenced by the sound signature of the microphones, studio monitors and other equipment used for that work. So, it is no surprise that when you play things back in your home, some recordings just sound better to you than others. 

As such, some people like the ability to tinker with the sound by using tone controls or an equalizer.  Along those lines, Schiit offers three well regarded  EQ units at attractive prices.  Or, you can also explore the use of digital software equalizers. Roon can do this as well as some other digital players and software. 

@mlsstl 

Thanks

schiit equalizers are interesting, they have great products and this is an area that's underserved

I guess you can use one for each biamped speaker. I would be using the internal crossovers of the speaker and then maybe this Device would allow me to adjust levels to allow for voltage differences hitting each driver. And then if I want I can also adjust frequency levels if I wanted to.

In making level adjustments without changing the frequency mix, I guess you would increase each of the dials by roughly the same amount. Maybe this isn't a true gain setting adjustment, which I think I really need.

Does this make sense?

These speakers have them. You can raise and lower the level of the tweeters 6 dB the mid range 6 dB the woofer is stationary you can raise the bottom 12 inch woofer is used as a sub and has adjustability is called blueprintacoustic.com.

Minidsp seems more design for subs.  And it seems pretty cheap of a product. And it's a nightmare to work with. 

No on all.

I use a Flex 8 in a four way system. The updated control software isn't perfect but it's a whole lot better than before.

You get more than what you pay for. Anything comparable is 10x the DoReMi!

That's the problem with DSP, the interfaces are very disappointing given what they do.

I'll take a look at the flex 8.