Originally Posted by
toddalin
I often hear this, but wonder..., is it the Heils, or are the Heils are just revealing what's really there? Attenuating them a bit helps tremendously at removing the grain, but also removes a bit of HF detail. At least I have mine crossed over to keep the vocal fundimentals in the midrange, and just loose some sparkle and detail on those recordings when I turn off the HF switch and/or attenuate the Heil a bit.
I prefer to run the L-pads "full bore" for best "coupling" and the crossovers allow for this, so long as the recording does. But many recordings require a bit of HF attenuation, and yes, I do get up and adjust the crossovers to the recording on a disk by disk basis as necessary.