Quote Originally Posted by BillyB
You have listed an impressive list of Home theatre audio products. Home theatre is certainly geared towards endless sound adjustments.2 channel stereo is a totally different animal. Do you use an EQ or other equipment for altering your conventional HiFi stereo sound. Do you even care about the pure sound of an unaltered high end stereo.You didn't really say.
Billy,
Hometheater is no more geared to endless sound adjustments than two channel stereo(which is a distortion in and of itself). Fortunately because I chose my components and speakers carefully, two channel sounds as good as multichannel in terms of sound quality. Do your realize that if you have loud modes(room induced peaks) in your room you are already altering the sound quality. The object of EQ(along with other acoustical tools)is to remove such peaks. If you think for a second that your room is not subject to the laws of small room acoustics, you are sorely mistaken. ALL small rooms have acoustical problem of some sort and need to use some sort of acoustical correction tools.

I placed my listening viewing seat for optimum imaging and viewing, measured the frequency response of my system at that place, used acoustical foam to tame a high frequency slap echo, and my EQ's for the low end, and I have never touched it again. No endless tweaking here. If the recording doesn't sound good, it has to stand on its own in my room.

Unless you sit VERY near your speakers, there is no such thing as unaltered music in small rooms