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Rives PARC or Tact 2.0 AA for room correction?

Hi

I am looking for an analog room correction system and am looking at a used Rives PARC parametric EQ and Tact RCS 2.0 AA (with analog boards included) which were offered to me at similar prices.

I am quite happy running a pair of XLR interconnects straight from my CD player to my Preamp and have no intention of adding any DACs to my system.

However the advantage of getting the TACT is its versatility. I also suspect that it may be easier to set up.

Would the analog connections offered by the TACT be comparable to the Rives in terms of sound quality?

As I have no ability to trial both systems in my home, any advice is much appreciated.
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vladimir
346 posts
 
What Mr. Rives writes is very interesting. I remember reading a recent article about the TacT in Hi-Fi News, I believe, in which the reviewer clearly says that any filtering beyond 4th order is very audible as distortion. Let's remember that one of the supposed advantages of digital correction is the very high-order filtering possible.
kana813
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Funny, you never see any TacT reps hanging around these forums like Mr.Rives.
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drubin
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Mprime, adding the extra A/D and D/A is too steep a price to pay if vinyl is the pride of your system. If CD playback is your primary source (not SACD or DVD-A), then digital room correction makes sense. IMHO, of course.
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onhwy61
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I don't disagree with Mprime's comments, but it makes more sense to me to just go digitally from the CD player to the Tact. The different (if any) between the D/A stages is probably less than the ill effect (even if small) of the added A/D/A stages.

Tact maintains a well run user group on Yahoo. Here's the link. Not everyone markets via Audiogon.
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