curious question

[STEELHEART]

I hope this is the right place to post this question which is better or which would you guys prefer for home theatre use, a seperate graphic equilizer unit or the built in eq's in pre pro's for two channel use.

chris.

 

[Nick250]

For HT, an AV receiver with Audyssey built in fine. For two channel use I would try to treat the hell out of the room in the hope of avoiding EQing all together. In my system, I have two GIK Tri Traps and Audyssey auto EQ on my receiver and I am very satisfied with that for music and HT. On my subjective audio scale of one to ten, the Tri Traps improvement is an eight and the auto EQ is a three. I could be happy with my system without Audyssey, but I would not part with the Tri Traps if music is in the mix.

Nick

 

[JoeE SP9]

My preamp has no tone controls. I haven't used an equalizer in 15 years. Make the room sound right and you won't need an equalizer. Room treatment always works better than eq'ing.

 

[STEELHEART]

thanx

I should have said using an equilizer for 2 channel music, which would
you prefer personally i like using a graphic eq i think it's easier being able
to go over and move the sliders than go thru the menu and mess around trying to tweek things, cause if you screw things up you have to start
all over again but with a seperate eq unit you just move whichever slider
you want and voila'.

Chris.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I should have said using an equilizer for 2 channel music, which would
you prefer personally i like using a graphic eq i think it's easier being able
to go over and move the sliders than go thru the menu and mess around trying to tweek things, cause if you screw things up you have to start
all over again but with a seperate eq unit you just move whichever slider
you want and voila'.

Chris.

Get a good 30 band EQ. Behringer makes some.

 

[STEELHEART]

thanks

thanks for the suggestion mtrycrafts i already have a 10 band eq, i'm not
eq literate so i don't know why anyone would need a 30 band equalizer
instead of a 10 band, could you tell me why i might be better off/ or need a 30 band eq mtrycrafts.

Chris.

 

[Glenn Kuras]

For HT, an AV receiver with Audyssey built in fine. For two channel use I would try to treat the hell out of the room in the hope of avoiding EQing all together. In my system, I have two GIK Tri Traps and Audyssey auto EQ on my receiver and I am very satisfied with that for music and HT. On my subjective audio scale of one to ten, the Tri Traps improvement is an eight and the auto EQ is a three. I could be happy with my system without Audyssey, but I would not part with the Tri Traps if music is in the mix.

Nick

Glenn

 

[mtrycrafts]

thanks for the suggestion mtrycrafts i already have a 10 band eq, i'm not
eq literate so i don't know why anyone would need a 30 band equalizer
instead of a 10 band, could you tell me why i might be better off/ or need a 30 band eq mtrycrafts.

Chris.

Certainly. Frequency anomalies are narrow bands that needs such fine adjustments, especially in the low bands.
1 octave adjustments are just too broad to fix narrow bands.

 

[Glenn Kuras]

The big thing people seem to forget is that EQ will not solve ringing in the room and that is also a BIG part of putting in bass traps. One other thing is how would you EQ a null? Take a look at this thread, post number 8 at http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8937485&highlight=gik#post8937485 to see what I mean about nulls. No way would EQ work in this case.

Glenn

 

[JoeE SP9]

I said this earlier. Fix the room first. If the room is fixed there is much, much less need for any kind of equalization.

 

[STEELHEART]

I still don't understand how a 30 band is better than a 10 band mrtycrafts, could you please explain it so that i may understand better
thanks.

Chris