Acoustic Processors & EQ Archives - The Absolute Sound https://www.theabsolutesound.com/category/awards/best-acoustics-set-up/best-acoustic-processors-eq/ High-performance Audio and Music Reviews Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:33:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 2022 Golden Ear: Schiit Audio Loki Max Analog Equalizer https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2022-golden-ear-schiit-audio-loki-max-analog-equalizer/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:23:19 +0000 https://www.theabsolutesound.com/?post_type=articles&p=49374 Schiit Audio Loki Max Analog Equalizer $1500 You need this, […]

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Schiit Audio Loki Max Analog Equalizer

$1500

You need this, even if you think your system is already neutral or even if it actually is. Recordings do not show up perfectly balanced in any precise sense. Even though the people who made a recording heard in monitoring exactly what they had in mind, their monitoring system almost surely does not match your playback system exactly! This remote-controlled device is effectively completely transparent, doing nothing except alter frequency response and make the associated minimum phase changes. You can move the balance of each recording around to fit how it fits your system and how loudly you want to play it back. (Volume level affects perceived balance.) The device is easy to use, easy to the point that you can dial in it very fast for each recording. And there is a bypass button, so you can instantly check what you did. With only six bands of eq, the Loki is not designed to fix speaker/room problems—for that you need more bands, a lot more, or parametric with variable Q. But for the day-to-day fixing up of recordings, six bands are enough to correct the things that are most likely to need correcting. And being able to do so becomes indispensable. Take control of your life in a way that far transcends the usual audio accessories or tweaks, in a way that really counts, as you will find when you switch even small corrections in and out. You’ll be glad you did.

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