Bass and Treble Dials


It seems every high end audiophile quality preamp/amp comes with no bass/treble dials. There is no way to adjust the sound coming out of the system other than by adding, removing or replace the audio equipment components... such as the needles, tubes, cables and etc etc. I wonder what would be a real reason behind of not having the treble/bass dials? While it might be a simple question but I really don't know the exact answer. I only guess that it is because the adding the treble/bass dials will unavoidably make an electronic circuit more "complex" which would go against a whole concept: "the simpler the better" or "the less is more". Am I correct in my assumptions?
sputniks
Unsound,

That would be really interesting to insert such device in a chain spdif-in spidif-out but I would still stay out of correcting.

Timlub,

It looks like you know your caps. Outstanding Mylars? - no way (Dielectric Constant = 3). It is probably Teflon inside - who would trust Russians? (LOL) Production wise selecting caps below 1% would not be a practical solution while caps like that are very expensive (and still would make imaging a little worse). Circuit would most likely include additional buffer stage that would not make clarity any better either. Potentiometer itself has track to track mismatching about 3dB. Even expensive pots have mismatch of 1dB - still very audible tone change between channels destroying image.

The cheapest amp in Best Buy has all sorts of tone controls - often equalizer, loudness corrector, spatializer, rumble filters, noise filters, balance control etc. It is lacking one minor thing - a good sound. Same goes for many Home Theater systems - a lot of speakers but none of them good sounding.
I think the Luxman integrateds are high end and high performing units with tone controls. So if some one really wants that and can afford them those would be an option.
Kijanki,
Here are the Russian mylars Polyethylene-Terephtalate)K73
They took alot of burn in, but after a couple hundred hours were quite good.
Unsound,
Thanks, I haven't seen it before. Looks very interesting.

Timlub,
You're right - it is Mylar (I checked Wikipedia). Must be different construction or something else. Hey, if it works it works.