To Tone or Not to Tone, that is the question.
I am in the process of moving houses, and as such, I am finally getting around (not that it wasn't a priority) to hooking up my stereo system.
Room treatments, etc... are not installed/set up yet, but the "basic" components are in.
I ran into a situation where I was having an issue with my subwoofer and getting it to play nicely in the new room with different sources.
I am using a Classe CP800 preamp, which allows you to set different "tone controls" (or a complete lack thereof) for each individual source.
I currently have a Yamaha CD-s2100 SACD player and also a cheap Sony DVD/SACD 5 disc changer hooked up.
Playing around in the preamp settings, I put the Sony (borderline junk) on "bypass mode", which made a big improvement to it's sound.
Further playing around, and the Yamaha (a MUCH higher quality unit) sounds better using the tone settings turned on.
Is this normal?
Perhaps after I get the room treatments installed, this will be subject to change?
It just got me thinking/wondering if most folks use their tone controls, or tend to bypass them all together (like I say, in my particular instance, this is independently configurable for each source).
Just struck me as kind of odd, so I figured I would post it here.
