The MANLEY EQ 500 is a refreshing revival of one of the most musical passive EQ's from the past-- the "heart" section having been designed by Arthur Davis who seems to have worked for many (or is it most?) of the historic companies: Altec Lansing, Cinema Products, Universal Recording, and of course, Langevin... always taking his seminal design along with him. The complexity of the switching (using gold-contact custom built Greyhill switches in our reincarnation) is solely for the purpose of having no more than 3 components, (1 R, 1 L, 1 C) in the signal path at any given moment for maximum signal purity.

True, there are many equalizers around with many more "doo-dat" knobs, but they sacrifice a great deal of musicality (read: frequency distortion and phase shift) in order to offer so much "frequency bending". The EQ 500 we feel gives sufficient flexibility within the confines of musical, accurate tonality. The Manley gain make-up line amplifier we chose to incorporate in this model is a fully differential system which cancels out all even order harmonic distortion and adds that enhanced imaging size exclusive to differential topology. Another feature is a variable feedback switch. This allows the overall gain to be kept consistent while boosting or cutting and, more importantly, allows the possibility of reducing distortion in proportion to boosted (or inversely, cut) frequencies. 

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ALL of our equalizers are also available with detented, logable BOOST & CUT control switches precisely calibrated to 0.5 dB steps or as required.