"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Paul Dormer" wrote in message


"Arny Krueger" wrote:

So I need to equalize my system to make it favor lps?

Or CDs or whatever.

So according to Krueger - Stephen needs to use an equalizer to
"favour" CD's.

Or vinyl or whatever.

You can't read or reason, can you Dormer? If one favors everything then
one
favors nothing.

I've yet to meet anybody with a quality turntable who inserts outboard
equalization of any kind in the signal path. Enthusiasts tend to work
toward getting a system balanced and working right in the chosen
listening environment...

Equalizer paranoia seems to come with vinyl bigotry. The irony is in the
use
of equalizers for vinyl mastering, and I mean in addition to the truly
massive pre-emphasis and de-emphasis that is standard with vinyl.

As it, I don't hear a difference in system performance.

If it's not broke don't fix it.

You said that vinyl "never sounded as good" when you made changes to
your system. So, it was working - and you broke it. Well done!

One cracks eggs to make omelets. Were then now, I'd just plug in an
equalizer of my choice and make everything sound fine, were there no other
reasonable option but equalization.

I've heard nice things said about it. The last Behringer thingie I
bought, and the thing before it were true and genuine great values.
Behringer-bashing seems to be a less popular sport these days on
Usenet.

That's because Behringer are known for ripping off other manufacturers
designs, riding on the coattails of other peoples creativity and hard
work. I'm sure this is beyond your comprehension, but some people have
standards.

Let's see. The last people to pursue that tack against Behringer were
AFAIK
Mackie. Mackie had their day in or near court and didn't prevail.
Subsequently Mackie failed as a business and is under new ownership and
management. One might think that Mackie was getting solid competition from
Behringer and went crying to mama. Mama wanted to see some compelling
facts
and Mackie came up a day late and a dollar (or several million per the
sell-out) short.

I think that the golden ear fave is parametric.

Only an idiot would use a graphic where a parametric is applicable.

Only an idiot would say something that categorical about any flavor of
equalizer. My favorite graphic has up to 12000 bands,

Luckily there are so many of "yourselves" to tweak it.

MvB