The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt

LOL- I was thinking about RIAA EQ right after I sent that post(pretty sharp E, KUDOS). Nope, I've never tried the mic pre trick. Some EQ(like what goes on in a phono stage or in production) is an unavoidable evil. Curving venues was always a pain with the old Ivey RTA, and either a graphic or pararmetric EQ. When the UltraCurve Pro 8024 came along: whatta relief! At home I WAS an EQaphobe(any freq. over 80hz)for better than 24 years(80-04), and a DIGIphobe for 15 years(pretty much a straight-wire-with-gain, bi-amping, analog lover. Now I've got a TacT RCS 2.2X in my system(talk about a paradigm shift). OH NO, NOT BOSE!!(in my best Mr Bill voice)

Quandary : Has this bus fallen off the cliff with anybody on board --- Bose ????? (Mr. Bill included).

Rodman99999...The deal with the flat mic amp acting as a phono preamp is that for the tweeter/midrange all you need to do is roll off the boosted highs of the raw signal. Why boost the low end, only to cut it later in a crossover. Of course the woofer signal must have the regular RIAA boost, so you end up with a biamplification preamp. The whole system needs to be coordinated with the speaker design, and other sources, like Tuner, need special provisions. A can of worms, no doubt, but, for Phono, the resulting clarity of the highs is interesting.

Mr. C- A few threads ago Mr. E and I had some discourse concerning the integration of Behringer and Bose systems. We just sort of picked it back up for a moment in here. Sorry if we offended by hi-jacking your thread briefly. Mr. E- I've got nine paragraphic EQ memories available in my TacT, and might just try setting one with an RIAA curve one day. That and a nice tubed mic pre(with 64db of gain) might be a sweet phono stage. OOPS- We did it again, didn't we? Sorry Mr. C!

R : Your forgiven only if the rest of us are included, Mr. Bill too.