Now listening Slow Summits and it sounds the best on ' source direct' but been listening to some old Barry White before and was horrible with ' source direct' and great with tone controls employed.
Covenanter
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Covenanter said:
ok Chris. Q500 are not much different than Q300.. and all sort of music you put thru your stereo sounds good to you without adjustments?
A big contributing factor here is personal tate. If lpv simply likes a bass-heavy sound, then he's probably not going to get it without some artificial reinforcement low-down, unless he has huge speakers and an equally-huge room where the LF soundwaves can develop and run free with gay abandon. And even that won't help when listening on headphones. My only suprise is he finds the bass control helpful. I've had loads of amps with bass controls and they seem to fall into two categories: those with bass controls which barely do anything (like some NADs I've heard) and Jap amps with bass controls which just add mud and gunge at the 100-120Hz mark, rather than adding decent weight lower down.
MajorFubar said:
I was thinking to replace speakers for some floorstanders like Neat Motive 2... i think the amp is fine but I need more low frequencies.. what do you guys think of pair of Neats with Marantz?
Don't know but they won't fix your headphones. Ideally, you're really back to needing an amp with remote-controlled bass and treble controls.
With iTunes, have you thought of setting-up custom EQ's for each album, artist or genre, whichever suits you best? That way the EQ will be consistent without you needing to worry about adjusting it remotely whenever you play eg Barry White.. Sadly that doesn't help you with Spotify.
With iTunes, have you thought of setting-up custom EQ's for each album, artist or genre, whichever suits you best? That way the EQ will be consistent without you needing to worry about adjusting it remotely whenever you play eg Barry White.. Sadly that doesn't help you with Spotify.
MajorFubar said:
True. Especially that I'm happy with amp/ speakers I've got but after some adjustments to each cd. I know i can do it on iTunes but Spotify is what I'm listening the most.
... so back to my original question: list of amps/ preamps with tone control operation in handset, please.
My bad on that...I just looked down at the remote when I saw the thread. As you can tell, I've never used it! :doh:
Esoteric RZ-1
But, like most tone controls, it is too broad so not even really much use for dealing with the bass bump I have at certain frequencies in my living room, so I leave bass and treble flat all the time anyway.
But, like most tone controls, it is too broad so not even really much use for dealing with the bass bump I have at certain frequencies in my living room, so I leave bass and treble flat all the time anyway.
Covenanter
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lpv said:
It's mainly classical but yes it all sounds great. I've never actually touched the tone controls (and the Source Direct button is engaged anyway). There are some non-classical recordings where I could perhaps "improve" the sound quality but not enough of them to make me do anything about it.
Chris
PS Of course I might have defective hearing!
ID - thanks for Esoteric 
So we've got so far:
- Rotel RA-11, RA-12
- Esoteric RZ1
- Marantz CR 502, 503, 603 and probably upcoming Melody Music
- McIntosh C2500
So we've got so far:
- Rotel RA-11, RA-12
- Esoteric RZ1
- Marantz CR 502, 503, 603 and probably upcoming Melody Music
- McIntosh C2500
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