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drdna wrote:

…AND since the exact frequencies affected by HF loss of the Finalizer and the frequencies covered by the tweeter adjustment are not likely to be exactly the same, then when the tweeter is adjusted to correct the HF loss frequencies, does it also boost up too much some other frequencies (perhaps in the lower HF area?) to create a euphonic result?

I would say, yes, in a way…. The Optical Finalizer in away do EQ sound by reducing HF and slightly lifting up the rest of spectra. Ironically but THAT was the very quality that made me to buy it. At CES when I for a first time exposed to the Optical Finalizer I was in US AN Kondo room where they played their million dollars (at lest what they believe) amplification loaded with some AN Kondo small mini-monitors. I know those monitors and they should be poor, still the room kind of sound more or less OK for the results that might be accepted from any AN (UK or Japanese). Then, when my CD was Optically Finalized (completely against my will) and played again, I instinctually recounted that the very first accords of CD literately took the poor Audio Note speakers apart. I meant the CD suddenly pushed so prosperous bass and MF content that AN bass drivers literally clipped. I personally do not feel the “bass become better” but rather feel that the absent of HF digital noise conditioned my perception of harmonics making harmonics wonderfully slower, more convincing and the sound all together less annoying (in my semantic slower means better). Why the “relative HF phenomena” take place I do not know. It is very much might be that the Finalizer slightly rolls off the “useful HF”….

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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