Question for JV and other reviewers.

default -- Sun, 01/04/2009 - 20:06

My room isn't perfect. Reading Reg and others makes me want digital room /speaker eq. Love analog sound. Fear the digital eq will kill the sound. Do any of these systems pass a signal that sounds like analog? JV, will your Walker turntable still sound like a Walker after running thru any of these eqs?
thanks
barondla

Jonathan Valin -- Sun, 01/04/2009 - 20:19

<<JV, will your Walker turntable still sound like a Walker after running thru any of these eqs?>>

In a word, no.

OTOH, if your room is introducing sizable, multiple, audibly irritating humps in frequency response (and hence in dynamic response and temporal response) then you need to decide which is worse: losing a fair bit of analog air, bloom, color, scale, dimensionality, and texture or living with a room that is going to grossly distort these things anyway.

For my money, I would prefer to make the room as congenial as possible. However, I would do that via the old-fashioned means of passive room treatment, using RPG, ASC, Shakti, and/or AV RoomService products. (Which, in fact, is what I do.)

JV

barondla -- Sun, 01/04/2009 - 20:36

Didn't think digtal eq would reproduce analog sound. There is always a price to pay. Room is fine with the Room Tunes & Tube Traps. Means I can skip the Emerald Physics speakers too.
thanks for such a quick reply
barondla

Jonathan Valin -- Sun, 01/04/2009 - 21:08

Remember, barondia, that I'm just one guy with one (some would say backwards-looking) opinion.

Robert Harley -- Sun, 01/04/2009 - 22:22

I suggest that you treat the room acoustically and experiement with loudspeaker and listener placement. If you are serious about it, you can calcualate or measure the peaks and build narrow-band absorbers tuned to those problem frequencies.

I would try this first since you have top-flight analog sources.