Bass and Treble Dials

Rooms need tone controls

"Rooms need tone controls"

Room treatments improve clarity and imaging.
Tone controls destroy clarity and imaging.

I understand your thoughts Kijanki. Room treatments to dampen peaks in room frequency and go along way to help give us a flatter response. Agreed, but in some rooms, the only way to flatten response would be some type of frequency control... Obviously subwoofers are very low frequency, but many these days are electronically altered. I do and have used room treatments and agree its the way to go, but as I wrote earlier. I understand that Jim Bonjourno's Ambrosia preamp does a very good job with tone controls... I believe that it is possible for an eq to be built that would do a good job without destroying a sound stage, small increments that very evenly add frequency to channels equally, why do tweeters with a high end rise or a roll off still image? Or a mid with a dip or a peak? Frequency alone does not destroy imaging.
Again, I don't use them, but don't find them an enemy either.

The less in the signal path the purer the sound.I play some of my low gain cds with my passive linestage removed so that the cdp goes into my 300b set amps direct.
The system sounds incredible and open this way.A warning however as this can be very dangerous and not all systems can handle it,so I recommend trying this only with extreme caution.

Regards,

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