Hi!

It's my humble belied that the more we play with EQ, filters, and other ways of manipulating the sound the more stagnant and stale sounding the eventual sound becomes.

I'm sorry to use words like 'stagnant and stale' - but this is the difficulty of describing sound in words.

The approach I would take (if I could) would be the simplest possible signal path (from beginning to end) - and ensure that the listening environment could do justice to that.

This method has produced the best sounds I have heard.

Of course, I use EQ myself and any trick I can to make a poor room sound okay - but when you start from a fatally flawed position there is only so much shine you can put on your turd.

In short I believe in lifting veils rather than adding them - but find  that this works best in a good acoustic space.