who wants tone controls on your next preamp?

"I also have a carver C-9 sonic hologram generator, and a DBX-3bx. I have a kenwood GE1100 equalizer with reverb. They have not been used in ages. I don't know why anyone would ever use such things. Back in the day, I thought they were "cool". Lots of blinking lights and such. Always a hit at patys when I was a kid. Now, in the real world, why would you want them, or tone controls?"

Because they work and make life easier.

The world of extreme audio often has little to do with the majority of the real world.

BTW a party is not a good application of Carver holography in that it only works when sitting in the sweet spot and has no benefit otherwise. That would have to be a mighty cozy party.....

It might work with omni speakers in some cases but additional holography should not be much of an issue in that case.

They can make tone controls that work well but they are digital and purists freak out.
A good sub with room EQ sure helps a lot to alleviate the need for tone controls also.

Yes. Defeatable tone controls. I say bring them back. Poor recordings can be doctored to sound good. Even "bass boost" for low volume listening, and "rumble filters" have been found in my opinion to be quite useful. My old Dyna PAT 4 had a switchable high freq filter that worked wonders on tape hiss. I miss them all.

Agreed that use of adjustable subs alleviate the value of other tone controls somewhat and may have helped led to their general demise.

I wopuld like to have them, but I don't think it was a conspiracy to sell cables in place of tone controls, unless we can prove that equipment manufacturers are getting a cut of those cable sales.