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What is especially strange is that I bought mine at Best Buy for about $100 (you know, $99.999999). Crutchfield used to have them (nothing shown online). WTF.From the reviews, apparently the quality on this unit has gone downhill (can you say China). I have this model of EQ, but it was purchased about 5 years ago, and may be of better /USA quality. And now they're listed here for over $300.I see a good business opportunity here, manufacturing quality equalizers for the US public. Best Buy used to have them (no more). In fact, I still use it, and it works great.I have been looking lately to purchase another equalizer, but have noticed that they are getting hard to find. Fry's used to have them (no more).
I have a 2 Head deck, So I connected it to the EQ 200 and it worked okay, but still had problems with the buttons happened again. Tape to Tape dubbing is limited to only monitoring source, THAT IS CORRECT, when dubbing you can only list to the source Tape and not the dubbing tape to insure that the deck is recording okay. After that I started tested a different configurations. I then connected the Reel to Reel without DBX, direct bypass the monitor loop and it worked okay for the first few times, then all of a sudden I could not record on the Reel To Reel, the input controls didnot work and the signal to the meters were pegged, not good, then I losted the 2 head deck.
But then the problem started to unfold. Okay that worked, only for about and hour and then same problem happen, input controls stop working and meter pegged and again this is just 1 TAPE DECK CONNECTED. When a button is depressed and testing the contacts on the Oscilloscope showed a little ambient noise -75dbm level, which is okay, but as you use the switch the noise level increases until it shorts, that is why when you power off and let the unit sit and power back on it works okay that is kind of a electrical discharge so to speak and the ambient noise is back to around -70 ~ -75dbm. That why the sound cuts out and the input shorts to the output.So all in all the unit went back for a refund. This was the only choice on the market.
With the EQ connected to a deck that monitors it seem to short the input to the output, causing the input level control not to respond, not distortion but not good for you tape deck. Powered off all components and things went back to working. First the buttons, They are confusing, and don't work half the time. This product does not work.
Remember this is just 1 TAPE DECK. I said okay maybe it is me let me read the manual more closely. Closed circuit test revealed from 0 ~ 1 ohm resistance on average but fluctuated to inf at times. connected. This is a very poor design.
I purchased this product to replace a Faulting ADC 215 Equalizer. After getting the unit I was able to connect it quite simple in to my system. The open circuit test fluctuated from inf to 10K ohm resistance. It does not support tape monitoring, and don't try to connect a Three Head Deck it will short out your Deck. Figured out the button (Tape 1>2/Tape22 + Audio/Video + Line/Tape LED Green.
So I decided to give this unit one more try, by adding one piece at a time and testing one piece one piece at a time. The buttons don't work and short constantly. It is low quality and poor craftsmanship that it will not last more than a month or so. After several reset everything worked again.
Please don't buy this unit. I have a DBX unit for my Reel To Reel and had to connect it directly to the Reel To Reel, not much of a problem. What I have found out after opening the unit and putting it on a Oscilloscope, I found that the contacts in the switches are very poorly made and are solider to close together and are causing electrical interference. I added the Three Head Deck (Teac V711), to Tape1, then tested, worked okay for a while and then things started not working.
Then I noticed that I could not monitor tape recording output from Three head Deck and DBX record monitoring. Powered off everything and tried again.
Works best with the Audiosource preone/A pre-amplifier. This is a great item to add to your stereo system. Really worth the money.
Next step is to upgrade to a better system I guess. The equalizer works well, but a digital system that can "remember" various music types (classical, Jazz, Rock, etc) would have been more usefull. I had to make a drawing of each application (for example old turntable, jazz, classical) settings and change the sliders every time I change my CD or phono music.
MANUFACTURED IN CHINA WITH CHEAP,INFERIOR PARTS. THEN THE SOUND QUALITY WENT BAD ON IT. THAT'S WHEN THE AUDIOSOURCE EQ200 TOOK A LITTLE TRIP TO THE GARBAGE DUMPSTER. THE UNIT HAS A LEFT AND A RIGHT CHANNEL VOLUME CONTROL, IT WAS A NICE FEATURE IF YOU WANTED TO TWEAK THE BALANCE IN YOUR ROOM.
I READ THE REVIEWS OF THE PRODUCT AND DIDN'T LISTEN TO THEM. NO QUALITY WENT INTO THIS MACHINE, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. EVEN THOUGH THE COMPANY IS BASED IN AMERICA IT'S ACTUALLY CHEAP CHINESE JUNK. THREE MONTHS AFTER I HAD IT THE EQ BUTTON STARTED ACTING UP AND CHANNELS WERE CUTTING OUT AND THE PROBLEM GOT PROGRESSIVELY WORSE.
THEN THE RIGHT CHANNEL WENT SOUR AND DROPPED HALF ITS VOLUME. I CLEANED UP MY OLD TEAC EQUALIZER THAT I'VE HAD SINCE THE LATE 70'S AND MY SOUND SYSTEM IS BACK IN BUSINESS. TO THE POINT THAT IT WAS TOTALLY ANNOYING. I STARTED GETTING DISTORTION AND I WOULD SOMETIMES GET THESE SONIC SCREECHES EVEN WITH THE TREBLE TURNED DOWN ON THE AMP.
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