Definately after the preamp & then into the trash. Why would you want an equalizer? It will rob your system of its best abilities: detail, transparency, sparation, etc. and inject more distortion and noise. You know if you can eventually pull it off I would suggest a fairly new Mcintosh preamp with tone controls. It is designed that when its tone controls are set at 0db they are truly out of the signal path for critical listening. Another pre that comes to mind that accomplishes the same thing but is less expensive is the Halo P3 preamp.
