You ever heard of Henry Kloss?


You ever heard of tone controls? Anything purporting to be "Hi Fi"
needs a minimum of a single tone control, but preferably separate Bass
and Treble. Not everyone's hearing is the same, and different programs
require different settings (speech, orchestra, rock).

Mike



Kloss was known, among other things, for minimalism. Tone controls
are not part of that program. And given the size of the panel, a tone
control may would have disrupted the clean lines, while making the panel
more busy than it needed to be.

All of which is a matter of taste.

However, your assertion that 'anything purporting to be "Hi Fi" needs
a minimum of a single tone control," flies in the face of high end
design, where the most expensive, and highest performance hardware have
no tone controls or spectral contouring circuitry at all.

That said, there are simple ways to mitigate undesireable bass content.

One of the simplest ways to control the bass perception of Model One
is to place the radio on a sound absorbant pad (one that extends several
inches from the front sides and back of the set) on a table at least one
foot from a barrier--a wall, or other raised vertical surface.

Minor mitigation of the boom (the offensive part of the bass
response) without reducing bass perception can be achieved by setting
the radio flush with the edge of a table about a foot from a barrier.

You'd be surprised at how much tone control you actually have, by
varying the staging of the set.