DONT GET ME STARTED ON TONE CONTROLS
OK...i am an audiophile by osmosis only, with no real knowledge of electronics. But I have met a few who do.
My good friend was in business with Dick Olsher from Stereophile and another Stereophile reviewer lives up the street. I have been in on testing Ongaku amplifier clones. and on and on.
I have seen people, including myself spend hours and hours and thousands of dollars all trying to discern minute differences, in test that took way too long to even remember what the first tone sounded like.
Things like... (all quite fun by the way)
upgrade capacitors in amps and speakers
roll tubes!
change cables.
change cartridges.
mix and match so much equipment it would make your head spin.
And every once in a while, I would say in my wise-ass way, if you want a different sound why don't you use the tone controls.
oh yeah ... audiophile equipment does not have tone controls, I would hear.
SO, 3 CHEERS FOR TONE CONTROLS