Cambridge and Marantz as a pre

[ematthews]

If you want to alter the signal to your liking, forget about tone controls and get something like the DCX2496. Its much more advanced than the broad smear of tone controls which are usually just.. Treble and Bass. With this other unit you can target exact frequencies and adjust them accordingly with different curves and levels. Much more capable of correcting room problems and speaker deficiencies than tone controls are. It is much like an equalizer, only instead of 10 or 20 bands you pretty much have 20,000 bands.

How would you add the DCX2496 to a two channel system?

 

[Haoleb]

How would you add the DCX2496 to a two channel system?

You just take the preamp outputs from your preamp into the DCX and output the DCX to your amplifiers. You'll need a RCA to XLR cable or adapter for your preamp, and you can just use an XLR-XLR cable with your amp.

 

[ematthews]

You just take the preamp outputs from your preamp into the DCX and output the DCX to your amplifiers. You'll need a RCA to XLR cable or adapter for your preamp, and you can just use an XLR-XLR cable with your amp.

Wow. That's it. And this would give me an audiofile EQ for the system?

 

[Haoleb]

Yeah, thats pretty much it. If you are like most users you will want to take frequency response measurements and tune the system to correct any issues you want. It is an advanced piece of equipment. I am not going to tell you its as simple to adjust as a couple of knobs but once you figure out how to set it up the possibilities are pretty endless. And if you decide to incorporate subwoofer(s) down the road or something it will also come in handy for that as well.

For the price, you're better off going this route rather than getting a new piece of equipment just for its tone control circuitry.