Longer note - I was reading the notes by Levinson in the Cello Palette EQ manual. Recording the tonal balance correctly in digital mastering varies. This is because the digital mastering equipment varies as well as equipment in home sound systems. The results are often of unenhanced, partially stripped sound quality that's variable from home to home when the engineers playback equipment doesn't match the sonics of home system. This may shed the most light on why individual CD's when recorded well, will perfectly match a particular individual home system, while not other systems.
The Palatte EQ is high end and has 6 frequency controls with +/- dB attenuations. Levinson says use all 5, using your ears, and quickly tune in best tonal sounds of each CD. In effect, your spinning dials just like a final master mixer. Although I don't find most EQ's as desireable, I feel this is a very sound explanation to why many CD's sound lifeless or partially stripped and a very well thought out way to correct it. I'll spin 5 high end dials to tune-out digital tonal system mismatches. This goes one step beyond a perfect set-up.
Palettes are rare and expensive. I did notice after a very careful set-up, a significantly better sound improvement. I placed my SVS Ultra-13 in the 10Hz tuning crossed at 50 hz to match mains at ear level directly behind the main seating position. It's very accurate. The 10 Hz tuning change sweetened the subs notes up close, squeezing them through one port like massive vocal cords. Very enjoyable. It also somehow enhanced the mains mids and highs resulting in better analog-like tonal imaging and clusters of unique sounds.
If anyone has good experiences using a sweet EQ in this manner, please pass to us. It would install between my digital source and Proceed AVP 2 +6 preamp. Thanks to all.
