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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
wolf_garcia
4,650 posts
 
My Adcom GFP 715 preamp has defeatable tone controls that work swimmingly...I use 'em on a second amp driving speakers I use for occaisional outdoor (from windows) use, and drive my main speakers with the "bypass" output. All sound great.
cdc
1,412 posts
 
I also have defeatable tone controls and there is little degradation in the sound with them "in" vs. "out". But a big improvement in overall balance with them "in".
Am now going one step further with digital parametric equalizer now.
cdc
1,412 posts
 
Should add that when I was an audiophile I wouldn't have dared to use tone controls but since I stopped putting music on such a high pedestal, I am not afraid of altering the sound anymore. What do all those recording engineers know anyhow?
rwwear
2,692 posts
 
Too many variables,,give me tone controls!

Funny Ray.
phd
1,008 posts
 
I prefer a nice sub paired with a neutral preamp that uses no tone controls, not much if any sound quality loss there. But I thought NAD did a nice job implimenting them on their older preamps from the late eighties because they still sounded spectacular.
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