AudioBanter.com - View Single Post - Equalizers- Are they needed anymore?

On 27 Sep 2004 08:43:18 -0700, (Tim Brown) wrote:

Lucas Tam wrote in message ...
(paul packer) wrote in news:41553ec8.1033909
@news.iprimus.com.au:

An old recording with
hard, shreiky strings--and that means an awful lot of 60s
material--can be improved out of sight by reducing output in the 4khz
area around 3-4db.

But can you just use the EQ functions on the receiver instead?

The advantage of a careful EQ when doing a transfer from LP to CD or
MD etc. is that the EQ is there everytime the copy is played back. No
need to remember what the EQ was or readjust an equalizer. I've got
lots of CD's that sound better than the LP's and open reel tapes they
were made from.

TB

Agreed. That is of course the point, to improve the sound once and for
all. Don't know what I would have done without my equaliser over the
years. I read purists dismissing them as "sound ruiners" and chuckle
to myself. Used properly they can be sound saviours.