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Personally I, when running my run of the mill Kenwood I bought in 92, used its equalizer. Many settings. One for chamber music, one for bands like Jethro Tull, one for bands like Deep Purple, one for big band jazz, one for organ music......

Then 2 years ago I bought Cornwalls. That was shortly after I moved to the new house and I forgot about the fact that the equalizer memory got reset. So I brought them in, hooked them up to, well, same Kenwood system (at the time I did not own any tube amps) and to give it a listen I put in Orgel Buchlein CD. The sound literally blew me away. I listened to several pieces, then decided to look at the EQ setting to see what made it sound so good. Imagine my surprise when I saw it was flat as a pancake.
Even more surprising to me was the fact that I liked it for all sorts of music.

This was the moment when I decided to get some tube equipment to see if this makes further improvement (to tell the truth, even if it did, it was an order of magnitude smaller difference compared to the speaker change).

Ever since I listen to my amps either flat or with the bass increased by no more than one click.