Definitely more professional EQs on the market these days, but this can satisfy basic needs and look good doing it. Overall, I'd recommend this EQ for its presentation and fair amount of usefulness. It's nice to be able to cut off these mostly unused frequencies that can muddy up the sound. I like that this unit has very low (16hz) and very high (32khz) adjusters. Note: if one LED is out, they'll all go out like a strand of Christmas lights. It's possible that you may luck out as well. I hear that burnt out LEDs and bulbs are common for this unit, but I got mine in perfect working order from the Salvation Army. Most of the buttons are plastic, though the bottom row is possibly aluminum. The front plate is indeed aluminum, but fairly thin and painted black. If you plan on actually using the equalizer as I do, I'm sorry, that display will probably remain off most of the time.īuild quality is solidly OK. If you want the shiny reverb lights to play along with your music (fair enough: they look neat), its best not to hook this equalizer up in the signal path. This was a fairly popular effect to add to audio systems in the early 1980s and, in my opinion, it sounds absolutely terrible. I'm sorry to say that this thing has a built in reverberation generator. It has a VFD Spectrum Analyzer (those bouncing bars that dance with your music) which is a nice touch, as well as a reverberation depth display which looks really but will most likely never be on. Each of the switches has its own LED, along with a few LED indicators on the bottom row.
Make sure to pick up a brand that can handle the power your receiver outputs. You can hook speaker cable inputs on this device to your receivers standard speaker output, and hook the rca output on the device into your graphic equalizer, and you are done. It does not muddy up the signal path like some other models from this era do, it has a couple neat displays on it, and the 12 bands are granular enough for basic tweaking. What it does is turn your amplified output into a preamp output. This is a decent equalizer for the early 1980s.
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