AE400 Active EQ

On the bench it behaves like a clean tool, scoring 10.0/10 on staying flat, low distortion, low noise, and steady behavior at any level. It barely touches your tone — the level holds within ±0.00 dB right across the hearing range, so what goes in comes out sounding the same. It adds almost none of its own edge (at or below 0.000%), so it keeps the sound clean. Its own background hiss is below what the bench can even measure, so it adds no noise you would hear. It treats quiet and loud the same (within -153 dB), so it behaves identically however hard you push it. It adds no delay to your audio.

Measured score 10.0/10 — flatness, low THD, low noise and linearity, evenly weighted toward a clean pass-through. How scoring works.

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