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In Reply to: RE: Yes, but ... posted by cawson@onetel.com on October 1, 2024 at 01:06:41:
"Have we diverted rather too far from the Subject?"If I remember correctly, from reading it a few minutes ago, "you" got onto the soapbox about energy usage/emissions/China/renewables/AC/etc. ;)
Maybe "we" can get back on track if I ask for a reply to my reply to your reply to the OP's message, re: "Tone Controls", in which I wrote:
"Loudspeakers typically have crossover networks which are at "speaker level", sometimes called "high level". The components of such crossovers are much more deleterious to the signal than well-designed low-level tone controls in a decent quality preamp. Audiophiles sometimes talk about how well a speaker is "voiced" or who does a great job of it, completely ignoring the effects of the high-level components needed to accomplish it - big capacitors, inductors and resistors, sometimes in complicated layouts."
"A well-designed tone control, on the other hand, can be used to adjust the sound without huge adverse effects."
"Another reason is that tone controls enable a person to adjust the sound of various recordings to suit their taste, and to compensate for recorded sound quality flaws, as well as to compensate for loudspeaker flaws."
On the other hand, you were "right on" when you wrote "DSP room correction (they never can improve the room!)". As is too often the case, "room correction" is a misnomer. More accurately, it should be called "room compensation". Actually, it's a little like putting lipstick on a pig - it's still a pig.
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