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Re: Ok, now I'm relieved

I use a ten band equalizer for adjusting the system to sound as flat as I can get it for the "average" of recording which IMO is typified by many DG cds. The 5 band is to compensate for differences in recordings. For example, I noticed on the cd release of Reiner's RCA recording of Scherezade that there seem to be a slight high end rolloff compared to the "average" while the Bernstein recording on Columbia has a slight high end peak. That's easily compensated for. My question to JA was what does he do when he listens to such recordings. As I understood his answer, nothing. Now he can live with that, I can't or at least won't if I can do something about it. I don't like hearing instruments too shrill or muffled. I'm not exactly happy when a symphony orchestra sounds feeble because the cellos and basses not to mention the tubas can't be heard. I don't find equalizers introduce any distortion and can make recordings of instruments sound more like the real thing. I know that they are the bain of most audiophiles which is why I kidded about the digital room compensator which is really nothing more than an equalizer even if nobody who uses one wants to call it that. Shhhh, I won't tell anybody they use one if you won't.

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