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Thread: Equalizer hookup |
    
New member Username: Jdmz
Post Number: 1
Registered: Sep-08
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| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 10:57 am: |
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I have a dvd player-->preamp--->2 amps.
where would I want my equalizer? thank you |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigne
Dallas,
TX
Post Number: 13030
Registered: May-04
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| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 12:22 pm: |
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In its box and in your closet. |
New member Username: Jdmz
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Registered: Sep-08
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| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 03:49 pm: |
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lol that doesnt help much. I need to mess with my midrange |
Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigne
Dallas,
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Post Number: 13032
Registered: May-04
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| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:40 pm: |
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Why? What's going on with your midrange that you need it messed with? 'Cause that's about all an EQ can manage, "messing" with it.
What type of EQ do you have? Ten band graphic or a parametric?
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New member Username: Jdmz
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Registered: Sep-08
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| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 04:18 pm: |
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I don't know, i dont have one yet. I want to get the DBX 215 though. My midrange a little too bright and i need to turn that down a bit. I also want to exaggerate the bass around 80hz a bit. |
Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigne
Dallas,
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Post Number: 13037
Registered: May-04
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| Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 01:17 am: |
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There are multiple locations to insert an EQ, the owner's manual of the unit should provide instructions on several of them. Be aware of the fact graphic equalizers simply introduce some degree of noise and distortion to the signal along with phase shift and comb filtering. All of these things are what you got rid of when you purchased a higher quality system. Parametric EQ's are the better choice but still have trade offs that can be offensive in a high end system. Better to deal with your issues through speaker placement and room treatments.
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Silver Member Username: Jblsince1989
Post Number: 149
Registered: Mar-08
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| Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 08:57 am: |
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I’d run a frequency test of wideband pink noise with RTA and 1/3 octave EQ parametric measurement. Play the pink noise on each loudspeaker at a time with one turned off while you analyse the loudspeaker for any dips and peaks.
Use the sliders on the EQ and try to use cuts rather than boosting the EQ especially on the low and high end least thing you what is damaged bass driver or brunt out voice coil on the HF tweeter end.
I’d run separates with Behrenger DCX2496 loudspeaker management crossover system, with added Behrenger DEQ2496 31 band EQ and newer separate power amplifiers Samson Alesis and Behrenger make affordable professional grade amplifiers so do the homework look around and see what you can decide on. |
New member Username: Jdmz
Post Number: 4
Registered: Sep-08
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| Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 12:57 pm: |
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i have a pretty good setup acutally.. I just want to adjust the treble just a little bit. My Preamp is a Passive line drive. I just want some control over my bass and treble. The Mcintosh C220 preamp has bass and treble control.. does this ruin the sound? |
Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigne
Dallas,
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Post Number: 13039
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| Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 04:58 pm: |
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The controls on McIntosh are about as unobtrusive as you can get. However, inserting a Behringer into a Mac system is a definite step in the wrong direction IMO. The Behringer just isn't in the same class with the Mac product.
It is up to what you hear when it comes to deciding which approach to take. Modern high end audio favors a simpler is better approach. The room inserts its own sound on the system and, if you purchased decent products to begin with, it is more the room that you are hearing than the components. EQ's, even parametrics, make corrections that are quite broad in nature and inevitably do not solve room issues. Asking a parametric or graphic EQ to make "corrections" only demands more from your amplifier which leads to futrther strain on the system and higher levels of distortion. Equalization only places a BandAid on one problem while introducing several others that can be just as egregious as the original or sometimes more benign but still there.
From what you have now posted you want control over the bass, midrange and highs. What's left?
Here's my advice, forget the EQ and figure out what you either should have purchased or figure out why what you have purchased isn't working as well as you thought when you heard it in the store. You did audition this stuff, right? At the moment you sound like someone who didn't get what they hoped for and now you would prefer to reach for a hammer to beat it into shape rather than figure out how to do the job correctly.
Your choice but an EQ wouldn't be mine.
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