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who wants tone controls on your next preamp?

I can remeber tone controls. They used to be on preamps, and integrated amplifiers. Then somehow, they vanished. I KNOW why they say they got rid of them, but really i think it was so cable manufacturers could sell billions of dollars worth of cables. Anyone else also notice tone controls disappeared same time as we all started to need 'special cables'? it's a plot!
I want tone control back on my stuff.
How about you?
Of course, they would have to be defeatable.
elizabeth
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mapman
15,679 posts
 
"For ten big ones they oughta be able to put one in there with a bypas button. Maybe even squeeze in a keg-a-rator at that price."

The people who will pay this much in general do not want tone controls, so I doubt it will happen to any large extent.

There will always be some vendors that use practical ease of use features to help differentiate themselves and appeal to a larger market. Carver did this to the nth degree.

McIntosh anyone?
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almarg
8,673 posts
 
Don't need them; don't want them. And I don't want to pay for the cost increase that the inclusion of high quality tone controls in a product would lead to; this stuff is expensive enough as it is!

Although I do recognize that tone controls can increase the range of recordings that can be listened to enjoyably, and that they would be particularly useful when listening at low volume levels (which I don't generally do).

Regards,
-- Al
buconero117
2,311 posts
 
In addition to tone controls, a must is a balance control.
sympaticonorm
103 posts
 
Would really like to see tone controls make a come back.....but the cable manufacturers won't let it happen...
unsound
6,115 posts
 
I want recording engineers to make recordings that don't require tone controls.
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