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Behringer DEQ2496 as EQ Only?


Could anyone please offer expert advice on how it might be possible to configure or daisy chain a Behringer DEQ246 with an Antelope Zodiac + DAC?

For years, I have used the Behringer on my desktops, for television, computers and background music. The DAC is OK but EQ is useful.

Now, I have switched / upgraded to the Zodiac + DAC which is a better DAC and is more useful device for switching sources and adjusting the volume.

So the question is whether I can somehow get the Behringer into the signal chain, but for the EQ only?

There was something I found on the web or youtube that suggested making special cables, but this made no sense to me or to the company I sometimes use for cables....

Thanks for any ideas.
cwlondon
arj
68 posts
 
Cwlondon, what is your experience around the overall resolution with and without the DEQX ?
cwlondon OP
1,210 posts
 
Arj,

DEQ2496 not DEQX....but generally (and as a neurotic audiophile since the late '70s who still owns ARC and Levinson components, amoung others...) I have had good experiences with Behringer.

I use it more casually for desktop, computer and television listening, but have had several Behringer components - many of which I have left on 24/7 quite literally for years at a time including power outages and they all still work fine.

The highest resolution and high frequency transparency are not as important to me as midrange, coherence and imaging but for the applications I pursue, the DEQ2496 sounds perfectly good, clear and transparent.

Others on Audiogon are also fans - the device has a bit of a cult following for being a bargain basement device and suprisingly clean in the signal chain.

I might not use Behringer in any state of the art main system but otherwise good fun and a good deal.
arj
68 posts
 
sorry I meant the DEQ2496.I did use it as an EQ only but had to use Optical cables into and out to connect my transport to the DAC. to me the resolution really dropped and preferred direct in without EQ .

But then getting the EQ right on a 2496 is not very user friendly so maybe did it wrong !
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