The Myth That You Don’t Need Tone Controls

This one really gets my goat. You enter the high-end snooty audio store to try out some high-quality equipment. Hey, why not, you won’t know until you listen to it, right? You are escorted to The Room of Acoustic Perfection. There you are seated in the precisely positioned Listening Chair, in front of banks of speakers, amps, preamps, no receivers because those are not snooty enough, and high-end CD players. These are all connected to a switching system so that you can easily try out different combinations. Very nice so far. Your salesperson will be into something above the common herd; perhaps jazz, maybe some classical, maybe some off-the-wall independent labels. Certainly no Top 40 or teenybop pop. ...

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