Equalizers- love them or hate them and why?


I am new to Agon, but haven't seen many audio equalizers listed in high end audio systems. Why?
bronxer99

Every hardware equalizer I have heard or used sucked.  Most of the software equalizers also suck.

On the other hand, the parametric EQ in Amarra is quite excellent.  You can use it to tweak the room response and speaker response.  Very transparent, like their volume control, at least up to -9dB.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

From reports of some that have used these here, on their good systems, this seems to be very good. Not much to look at, but has what it takes inside. 
http://www.schiit.com/products/loki

Cheers George
  
I tried them, but realized that crossovers affected my attempts to flatten a signal.  A system with DEQX seems to be a better way around this.
B
A crossover is a type of filter, gdn!

If you don't know what it's doing, best to leave it out of your signal chain. :) 

Best,

E
I tried them, but realized that crossovers affected my attempts to flatten a signal. A system with DEQX seems to be a better way around this.
B
I second this.  Once my room was addressed with room treatment, I added the DEQX.  I’ve found that the time delay and correct xover on the mains to help center the soundstage and integrate the single sub has been the most beneficial thing.  I use ever so slight EQ’ing at 60hz, about 2db and that’s it.