Adding Tone Controls?


My system sounds wonderful when playing well recorded jazz, classical, or "audiophile approved" material. Unfortunately, mass market pop frequently sounds horrible, with screechy splashy highs. It's obviously recorded with a built in bias to be played on car radios or lo-fi mp3s.
What can I add to my system to tone-down the highs on this sort of material? Sure, there's plenty of well recorded material to listen to, but there are plenty of pop rock bands I'd really like to explore if the recordings could be made a bit more listenable.
bama214

Showing 2 responses by viridian

I believe all of the other respondants are speaking of active equalizers that act in the analog domain.

Since you use no analog components, if you select an equalizer that works in the digital domain it will be extremely transparent to the source and not subject to the phase shifts of analog equalizers. It's a great choice given your system architecture and would go between your transport and DAC.

Happy listening.
....or the folks at Audio Reasearch, conrad-johnson and Krell are hacks for not including them.