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Home Theater => Audio => Amplifier => Topic started by: chatstix on Aug 15, 2005 at 01:48 PM
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mga sirs ano ang usual level ng bass at treble sa avr nyo? thanks.
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i always place the bass and treble level into "0" to feel and hear the actual sound balance on both, the way the sound engineer designed the CD to be. Sometimes however, I also play with it to suit my mood.
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For audio, I almost always put it on "0" as well.
But since I connected my tv to my amplifier as well, I sometimes move the bass a tad higher.
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If I am listening to audiophile recordings, I usually use my full range and set bass/treble to flat.
If I am just listening to typical recordings, I adjust bass/treble to my taste - using a different set of speakers.
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Mine is: bass and treble=3oclock. My ear prefers more highs and lows. ;)
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Ideally at flat O or mid position. Tone controls are meant to compensate for room accoustics in a limited way. So you adjust them according to your listening preferrence.
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Treble at 12 oclock or Flat
Bass at 3 Oclock
im using a passive 15" JL Audio Car Subwoofer kasi.. so I have no control over the volume of the sub :)
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depends on the recorded materials - I adjust any or both if I feel the sonic balance is not quite right or I am into a different mood. For good recordings, it is usually flat.
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my main system doesnt have any tone shaping controls...so im kinda stuck with having a garbage in = garbage out kind of a system.
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For my Integrated amp 3 o clock specially for rock and loud music.
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Mine is set to flat 0, i never touched that since i bought my HK :)
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i usually set my bass and treble to flat 0.
but when i like to listen to loud music (with great bass) i set my bass to 3 o clock and treble to 2 o clock. :)
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my main system doesnt have any tone shaping controls...so im kinda stuck with having a garbage in = garbage out kind of a system.
Same here. It gives you more reason to get audiophile recordings.
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Mine is set to flat 0, i never touched that since i bought my HK :)
i also have an HK receiver and it has a tone feature where you can turn it off or on (tone in/out). if i set this to off, adjusting the bass and treble knobs has no effect. is this the same as setting the bass and treble levels to zero/flat?
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i also have an HK receiver and it has a tone feature where you can turn it off or on (tone in/out). if i set this to off, adjusting the bass and treble knobs has no effect. is this the same as setting the bass and treble levels to zero/flat?
I don't think so. When it's on, even if tone controls are set to 0, you're still using tone controls. When it's off, it bypasses the tone controls completely. I don't know if there are audible differences between the 2 config as I have not experimented w/ them. Btw, my amp then was a NAD C320BEE.
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I've come across some AVRs and preamps in the past with a tone defeat switch that when activated didn't sound any different than when the tone controls were in the flat posiition. One even has a mid-range control and another had two bass and treble controls with different turnover freqs. A well designed preamp section I think should have the tone control flat positions identical in freq response to that in a tone defeat or bypass condition. Those were "manual" tone controls in stereo preamp sections that didn't have digital processing electronics. These days, most, if not all AVRs use tone shaping and volume controls in the digital domain. From what I've heard, they convert all analog input signals to digital prior to the volume and tone controls and DSP manipulation. So maybe the behaviour of tone defeats and bypass versus flat tone positions are not the same these days.
If I recall right, some of the more expensive preamps I've seen today have "Stereo Direct" and "Digital Bypass" switches. Presumably these switches are activated for serious stereo listening; they bypass not only the tone controls but the rest of the digital processing circuits including bass management, digital channel delay and equalization settings for straight analog audio path.
And if you really want to achieve pure sound, some of the more expensive AVRs also have the video switching bypass and LCD display out switches. Otherwise these circuits are said to introduce noise into the audio path unnecessarily. Just a thought.