In article , Don Pearce
wrote:
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:48:02 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

FWIW I have been tentatively feeling that the new 2805s do have a
'drier' bass than my old 63s. But can't do any direct comparisons, so
am not sure if this is my imagination as yet. So I may start twiddling
with positioning, etc, and maybe even sometime have another try at
using a sub to find out if that can now make an improvement rather
than just adding mud!


It definitely is possible to add a sub without mud, it just has to be
done right.

Agreed. I managed this in the living room, but gave up without success in
the hifi room. However with the change in speakers it may be time to have
another go.

An alternative that tempts me is to try a decent equaliser/correction
system. That might also let me switch on or off some reduction in the
presence region for more 'grainy' recordings. I tend to choose music on the
basis of performance, so often have CDs where I love the music and
performance but can hear imperfections like this.

FWIW I've had the habit of using a (modified) Quad 34 as a control box
beside my listening chair to tweak volume, balance, and also sometimes use
the low-bass boost/shelfdown control. As provided by Quad this was too
'powerful' but I altered some of the components to reduce the amount of
frequency response alteration it gives to being more suitable. Also to get
closer channel matching for the adjustments.

Question is: What decent, flexible, high quality adjustment boxes are there
that would let me do what I want? I don't want one of the multiband
'graphic equalisers' as they may well do more harm than good!

Slainte,

Jim

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