Wishful thinking. Since it very, very soon is time for Christmas 
Well, not really... 🙂
A high quality DIY three band tone control would be a fun and useful piece of kit, in my humble opinion!
Say:
Band 1 centered around 60Hz - where the strong and juicy bass lives.
Band 2 centered around 2500Hz - where the harchness lives.
Band 3 centered around 12000Hz - Where the airy treble starts.
+/- 6dB adjustment
My wishful thinking and thougts inspired by: https://www.schiit-europe.com/product/loki-mini-high-quality-tone-control-2/
What do you guys think about a old school thing like the tone control? Could Be Fun, or Is it just one of the deadly HiFi sins? 🙂
Well, not really... 🙂A high quality DIY three band tone control would be a fun and useful piece of kit, in my humble opinion!
Say:
Band 1 centered around 60Hz - where the strong and juicy bass lives.
Band 2 centered around 2500Hz - where the harchness lives.
Band 3 centered around 12000Hz - Where the airy treble starts.
+/- 6dB adjustment
My wishful thinking and thougts inspired by: https://www.schiit-europe.com/product/loki-mini-high-quality-tone-control-2/
What do you guys think about a old school thing like the tone control? Could Be Fun, or Is it just one of the deadly HiFi sins? 🙂
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Oh yes, it could be fun!Wishful thinking. Since it very, very soon is time for Christmas
A high quality DIY three band tone control would be a fun and useful piece of kit, in my humble opinion!
Say:
Band 1 centered around 60Hz - where the strong and juicy bass lives.
Band 2 centered around 2500Hz - where the harchness lives.
Band 3 centered around 12000Hz - Where the airy treble starts.
+/- 6dB adjustment
My wishful thinking and thougts inspired by: https://www.schiit-europe.com/product/loki-mini-high-quality-tone-control-2/
What do you guys think about a old school thing like the tone control? Could Be Fun, or Is it just one of the deadly HiFi sins? 🙂
Mother Nature constructed us not perfectly (okay, with the exception of Mr. Pass and maybe Mighty Zen Mod...
) and at 50 years of age our ears begin to lose the higher frequencies, so approx. above 8 kHz. So if we are getting older, we don't even hear the airy trebles anymore Based on this, it would be great to have a Pass DIY tone control
I am all for it, even I already use 31 band ultracurve. Could be fun to compare some very simple analog eq with ultra complex digital one. As long as its not based on some unobtainium transistors.
I have built 5 band eq simple circuits, mostly similar to JVC circuits, and they sounded ok.
Why not?
I have built 5 band eq simple circuits, mostly similar to JVC circuits, and they sounded ok.
Why not?
Wishful thinking. Since it very, very soon is time for Christmas
A high quality DIY three band tone control would be a fun and useful piece of kit, in my humble opinion!
Say:
Band 1 centered around 60Hz - where the strong and juicy bass lives.
Band 2 centered around 2500Hz - where the harchness lives.
Band 3 centered around 12000Hz - Where the airy treble starts.
+/- 6dB adjustment
My wishful thinking and thougts inspired by: https://www.schiit-europe.com/product/loki-mini-high-quality-tone-control-2/
What do you guys think about a old school thing like the tone control? Could Be Fun, or Is it just one of the deadly HiFi sins? 🙂
I would suggest 4 bands
30Hz, for deep bass
60Hz, for better fine tuning with ob
2500Hz is great to remove shout
12000Hz even better to spice it up
Yea, that real low end addition: 30Hz, is not a bad idea at all. It can absolutely often be useful to tame, and sometimes fun to add 🙂
Given the DIY nature, I imagine a design where the actual bands could be easily tweaked by the end user. Of course, I've never designed an EQ, so that may be wishful thinking
You bet that I would be interested. Been looking at the Loki and Lokius myself. 3-band is sufficient, esp if it could be made with sweepable (parametric) midrange. Input and output would have buffers. Inputs, outputs and power would all come out to terminal connectors.Wishful thinking. Since it very, very soon is time for Christmas
A high quality DIY three band tone control would be a fun and useful piece of kit, in my humble opinion!
Say:
Band 1 centered around 60Hz - where the strong and juicy bass lives.
Band 2 centered around 2500Hz - where the harchness lives.
Band 3 centered around 12000Hz - Where the airy treble starts.
+/- 6dB adjustment
My wishful thinking and thougts inspired by: https://www.schiit-europe.com/product/loki-mini-high-quality-tone-control-2/
What do you guys think about a old school thing like the tone control? Could Be Fun, or Is it just one of the deadly HiFi sins? 🙂
IMO, 2500 is too high. 500 to 2000 is where I was trying to adjust EQ in recordings. But others may differ which is why I suggest parametric midrange.
30Hz boost is, IMO, not desirable at all. Usually one wants to cut that frequency band to get rid of rumble (turntable, AC rumble and traffic rumble in recordings). You want more bass in playback, then buy an adjustable subwoofer/amp combo. If you read recording engineering magazines, (amateur and pro) you will see that engineers are typically boosting kick drum at 60-80, perhaps going up to 200. Never read anyone boosting 30 Hz.
dunno how you guys do it, but I'm finding - everything starts with proper speakers
when you have right ones, much lesser needs for various Gizmos
illustration - I'm equally enjoying music with whichever amp I'm listening - with dominant 2nd or with practically no THD to speak of
so, I like sugar, but I also like without it
all that, just because I had tremendous luck with speakers
moral of the story - build, say, Klipsch La Scalas ...... use ACA and to hell with Gizmos
when you have right ones, much lesser needs for various Gizmos
illustration - I'm equally enjoying music with whichever amp I'm listening - with dominant 2nd or with practically no THD to speak of
so, I like sugar, but I also like without it
all that, just because I had tremendous luck with speakers
moral of the story - build, say, Klipsch La Scalas ...... use ACA and to hell with Gizmos
Thorsten Loesch already published a fantastic design a decade ago :
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...was-high-end-tone-control.209644/post-2965376
Patrick
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...was-high-end-tone-control.209644/post-2965376
Patrick
Do the same here. Use a Heil AMT with its lobes aligned with a 5 1/4 inch mid bass driver and a two 8 inch woofers: driven with parallel ACA. Only thing between the source and the amp is a cable. Aligning the heil and midrange driver(s) allowed me to get rid of the voodoo boxes. A watt is pretty crazy when the speakers are right.
Ah, yes, but we are looking for a well laid-out board, coupled with buffers at output.
don"t! do! this! to! me!
for couple of years I'm thinking about Big AMT, and only God knows how many speaker drivers I already have ........
I must resist
I must resist
I must resist
Looks like they are on sale today. It says last of stock and not sure what that means. But good price!don"t! do! this! to! me!
for couple of years I'm thinking about Big AMT, and only God knows how many speaker drivers I already have ........
I must resist
I must resist
I must resist