[Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!]

Arny Krueger wrote:
"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"

Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason! wrote:

I just read the article. Let's see what Arny cut (all
quotes from the article, so I'm not messing with
quotation marks):

A real live Sontec or Massenberg Parametric EQ unit can
set you back 9 grand....

Deceptive out-of context quote noted, Here's the context:

"So, we use graphic EQ's to tailor the sound of our playback systems, and we
use Parametric EQ's to tailor the sound of our music. Right? Now, you have a
good point in which to start. Download (if you can) some parametric EQ
programs. A real live Sontec or Massenberg Parametric EQ unit can set you
back 9 grand.... "

Note that the following was intentionally and deceptively removed:

"Now, you have a good point in which to start. Download (if you can) some
parametric EQ programs."

There was no deception, Arns.

Normal people do not have their systems hooked into a PC. So what good
would it do to 'download' EQ programs?

So you go to the hardware version for your home system, which according
to the article you quote would run about 9K for a good one.

The first one is "everything in moderation". Just a touch
will do.

For commercial recordings, this should be true.

The second one is "never add, just subtract what is there
already". Most of the CD's you will be trying to fix
(especially the new post 1998 "remasters") will need to
have stuff removed for them to sound acceptable to your
new Audiophile Ears.

Unfortunately it is difficult to remove the most egregious parts of these
recordings - the overbearing compression.

So the EQ does no, or very little, good here.

On a 1/3 octave, it is pretty hard to remove harshness.
The bands are not broad enough.

Agreed. How many times have I said "parametric eq" in the past few weeks?

So Arny quotes a guy advocating a 9K EQ,

That's an intential deception, as a full in-context quote shows.

The full, in-text quote proves otherwise, Arns. While you may use your
PC as a stereo, as I said, most normal people do not.

I wonder how many people on RAO, for example, would benefit from a
software download.

If, OTOH, you are advocating that people download these programs to
create modified CDs on their computer, then (as I said in an earlier
post) we are back to using EQ in production. It's just that in this
case the production is done at home vs. at a studio. So we are back to
the already agreed upon point that EQ is used in production.