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
Free advice: Try toe in/out first. Every mm makes a huge difference if you are listening in the sweet spot.
Guess that means the folks at Mcintosh,Accuphase and AVM are a bunch of hacks to include those controls.
....or the folks at Audio Reasearch, conrad-johnson and Krell are hacks for not including them.
Check out the DSPeaker Dual Core 2.0. A fabulously flexible unit that gives you DSP for under 500Hz, and a full EQ for the entire audio listening band. Balance controls too.
After tinkering around with cables and swapping equipment for years, I've finally settled on a japanese mammoth of an integrated amp with defeatable frequency trim function (aka tone controls). Finally, I feel at peace and content.
While listening to my computer system, I've also discovered the usefulness of Amarra-based equalization. No shame in either