RobHolt
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Held a bake-off at the weekend for some folk from Hi-Hi Wigwam.
At one point a young visitor remarked that he liked the sound on a particular track but thought it a bit too bass heavy. So I turned the bass down.
"wow that's much better, what did you do?"
I turned down the bass a little.
"You can do that on a pre amp??"
Oh yes, on some you can but not many these days.
"That's a great idea, why don't other pre amps offer this?"
Well, I though it was quite funny at the time but it did rather make the point that we've become used to stripped down, hair shirt hi-fi and rather thrown the baby out with the bathwater. So I wonder if with the slow and agonising death of conventional audiophile hi-fi at the mainstream level, we'll see tone controls adopt their rightful place again as standard fitments on audio kit. By 'tone control' I'm including more advanced EQ as well.
At one point a young visitor remarked that he liked the sound on a particular track but thought it a bit too bass heavy. So I turned the bass down.
"wow that's much better, what did you do?"
I turned down the bass a little.
"You can do that on a pre amp??"
Oh yes, on some you can but not many these days.
"That's a great idea, why don't other pre amps offer this?"
Well, I though it was quite funny at the time but it did rather make the point that we've become used to stripped down, hair shirt hi-fi and rather thrown the baby out with the bathwater. So I wonder if with the slow and agonising death of conventional audiophile hi-fi at the mainstream level, we'll see tone controls adopt their rightful place again as standard fitments on audio kit. By 'tone control' I'm including more advanced EQ as well.
