i recently bought a Technics SH 8010 off of ebay for 50$ so i could tune out some high frequency’s on my speakers and because i love silver vintage audio equipment and it’ll fit great with my setup. Now i’m starting to worry a little on how good the range is on it. i know i probably should be good as it’s really only missing two frequency’s that i’m pretty sure aren’t very necessary unless i need fine tuning but i still wanna ask, it’s not a bad range, right?
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If I recall correctly, many of the mid-priced receivers considered vintage today (many of the Pioneer SX series, for example) used/set their bass tone control at 100 Hz, and their treble tone control at 10 kHz. Those frequencies for tone controls seemed perfectly adequate for millions of folks back in the day. So, given all that, I think you are good to go!!
Just my two cents.
Just my two cents.
Typically those equalization sliders or treble/bass controls are labeled for the center of the range they adjust, not the top or bottom. I can still hear 14K, I'd miss it I think, but likely the range is 8k to 16k on that particular control.
Amp should actually be pretty flat frequency response from 20 to 20kHz.
Amp should actually be pretty flat frequency response from 20 to 20kHz.
Blue Shadow
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The issue with a 5 band eq is that it doesn't have enough bands to do everything. Usual is a 10 band, one for each octave, a doubling of the frequency. The 5-band may have a Q, the width of the boost or cut to cover the range from the one below to the one above.
Audio Control made a neat 5-band eq with a 36, 60, 120, 1k and 15.5k band on it. The three at the bottom was great for boosting deep bass, cutting back the artificial bass peak many speakers have right before they roll off and another mid-bass to finish fine tuning the bottom end. Then one for midrange, vocals and the final one for the highs, cymbals, sparkle in the music.
Knowing what you are doing with the EQ in conjunction with tone controls, loudness, high and low filters helps get the music right. Just twiddling the knobs, might be hard to get it all lined up right.
Audio Control made a neat 5-band eq with a 36, 60, 120, 1k and 15.5k band on it. The three at the bottom was great for boosting deep bass, cutting back the artificial bass peak many speakers have right before they roll off and another mid-bass to finish fine tuning the bottom end. Then one for midrange, vocals and the final one for the highs, cymbals, sparkle in the music.
Knowing what you are doing with the EQ in conjunction with tone controls, loudness, high and low filters helps get the music right. Just twiddling the knobs, might be hard to get it all lined up right.