Bettermaker Passive Equalizer

On the bench it behaves like a clean tool, scoring 8.4/10 on staying flat, low distortion, low noise, and steady behavior at any level. It only nudges your tone — the level holds within ±0.23 dB across the range, so any shift in brightness or weight is small. It adds a bit of its own edge (up to 0.76% when pushed), which can show on loud signals. 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 almost the same (within -63 dB) — only a trace of level-dependent behavior. It delays the audio by 32 samples (0.7 ms at 48 kHz) and reports that delay, so your DAW lines it back up.

Measured score 8.4/10 — flatness, low THD, low noise and linearity, evenly weighted toward a clean pass-through. How scoring works.

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