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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: FM Acoustics: The most important component of a quality Audio system
Post Subject: The old EQ curveballPosted by steverino on: 4/6/2016
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 Romy the Cat wrote:
FM Acoustics’s  Manuel Humber speaks about his Harmonic Linearizer device.
It is very possible that this FM Acoustics preamp is a fine unit and that it does better than other EQ solutions but why the EQ solution shale be implement in preamps is beyond me. Should a person to “correct” bad recordings, the room problems or expectation problems? I do not know the answer.


I'm guessing this is an offshoot from the FM Acoustics phonostage adjustable curves. Leaving aside digital room correction components, didn't Mark Levinson (the man not the company) have some kind of fancy EQ device that he made? I remember someone interviewing him, perhaps in the days he was doing Cello, and Levinson showing how much "better" various deficient recordings sounded when he adjusted the upper bass, rolled off the high treble etc. I am guessing that his device was less obnoxious sonically than most of the EQ devices we are familiar with. However this seems almost impossible to do without side effects. I think this only works with grossly deficient recordings. I believe Levinson chose a historical recording as his example for the reviewer. But it allows the FM Acoustics listener to spend endless hours fiddling with the controls whenever an unpleasant sound is emitted from their system. Of course all those hours might better be spent getting the actual system to be more transparent and more tonally balanced but that is another thread.

Edit: The Levinson device was called the Audio Palette I believe.

 

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