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Tube Sound With Equalization?

I currently have and Benchmark preamp and amp playing into full range drivers. The sound is very neutral as expected, but recently I was able to demo a Mac MA352 Hybrid Integrated amp with a tube pre and solid state amp. I found the sound to have more decay, especially in the mids, and more pronounced with stringed instruments. I was wondering if an equalizer would be able to recapture some of those qualities, and what would the settings be?

koestner
soix
9,779 posts
 

No to the equalizer as others have said.  Sell the Benchmark pre and get a tube preamp.  

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thriftyaudio
55 posts
 

I sold my Benchmark and got a LTA MicroZOTL Level 2.  Thought I would keep the Benchmark and switch out, but after hearing the MicroZOTL for a week decided to sell the LA4. Waiting to try some upgraded tubes from LTA for even more improvement.

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trivema
109 posts
 

EQ, nah, tube buffer, some…tube preamp, more. 

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panzrwagn
561 posts
 

Equalizer have their place - in the frequency domain - but what youre looking for isn't in there. 

skiznfliz
43 posts
 

@erik_squires  Ha…tried a Loki … Sent it Back within the 15 Day Window…All it did was add noise. I like to sit back and enjoy my music, the thing made me have to fiddle with it for just about every track to make it sound anything near acceptable…Basically provided fixes for problems I didn’t have !  

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