Noobie question ...

Eldartford: "Kr4...There was a time when you needed to turn the BASS and TREBLE controls all the way up to make lousy speakers sound right."

If you say so. I never had lousy speakers. :-)

Kal

Kr4...Lucky you. How far do you go back? Not to the "TONE" control era I bet.

Well, first note the smiley at the end of the quip.

Second, I do go back all the way to the mid-50s when I bought my first component system and, yes, that speaker system (singular and no-name) sucked. But, of course, I was a total newbie and there wasn't anyone to turn to for guidance. Following that, I had:
An RCA 12" coax in a large bass reflex
A pair of Weathers Book speakers and DVC University woofer (transition to stereo in 1958)
A pair of Jensen TF-3Bs
A pair of Altec A-7s
That took me to 1969 when I started building IMF TLS clones and moved into the "high end."

So, for their time, none of them were lousy, with the possible exception of the no-name one. I had tone controls until 1969.

Kal