Millennia’s Ultra-transparent Stereo Parametric EQ
Starting out in the world of audiophile classical recordings, Millennia has established a well-deserved reputation for excellence in producing audio equipment for critical applications. Supporting that reputation is the NSEQ-4, a 2-channel, 4-band parametric equalizer that features an all-discrete solid-state JFET signal path sporting a groundbreaking true-differential Class A input buffer/amplifier. The Millennia NSEQ-4 incorporates Millennia’s purist proprietary Dove Topology, which uses no transformers and only one active stage in the audio signal path, resulting in audiophile-grade transparency. A joy to use, the NSEQ-4 facilitates quick, surgical tonal shaping of your tracks, stereo stems, and complete mixes.
Purist audiophile circuitry
With just one active stage in the audio signal path, the Millennia NSEQ-4 sets itself apart from most other parametric EQ designs that employ anywhere from three to seven active amplifiers in the signal path. Fewer amplifier stages mean greater sonic integrity and heightened musical realism. This single amplifier is optimized as an input buffer, EQ amplifier, and output driver. The musical clarity is immediately audible, as your audio signals are spared from the coloration of multiple amplifier stages. It's something you simply must hear to appreciate!
Why transformerless?
Transformers impart a fat, punchy tonality to audio signals, but they also add coloration — which may be desirable in some instances. Transformers are not, however, conducive to sonic purity. Of course, it depends on the type of sound you’re going for. But why limit yourself when there are many other methods of infusing audio material with vintage flavor? Deploying innovative proprietary design techniques, Millennia avoids the use of audio transformers in the NSEQ-4, allowing the pure musicality of Class A equalization to be realized without the unavoidable sonic artifacts common to signal path transformers.
Top-drawer components
The NSEQ-4’s exquisitely designed Class A amplifier is free of transformer coupling and meticulously optimized around premium passive components such as Vishay pots, mil-spec gold switches, Wima and Electrocube capacitors, silver Teflon power wiring, and Neglex OFC audio cabling. One listening test with the NSEQ-4 will immediately confirm that Millennia has once again set precedence in musicality and sonic transparency. Seasoned recording engineers at Sweetwater praise Millennia’s purist NSEQ-4 EQ circuit as being unerringly accurate, highly musical, and impressively effective for quickly sculpting signals with surgical precision. We’re confident you’ll agree!
Millennia NSEQ-4 2-channel Stereo Parametric Equalizer Features:
- Discrete solid-state 2-channel, 4-band parametric EQ
- Designed for exacting professional applications
- Premium components used throughout
- Proprietary all-discrete, true-differential Class A input buffer/amplifier
- Selectable balanced or unbalanced input
- Improved 3rd-generation FSA-03 all-discrete EQ amplifier
- Improved output stage
- True hardwire bypass when EQ not selected
- Fully parametric stereo EQ with unparalleled sonic purity and integrity
- All-discrete solid-state JFET signal path
- Minimalist design: only one active stage in the audio path (Dove Topology)
- Identical EQ stage used in Library of Congress archiving path
- 4 EQ bands spanning 20Hz–21kHz center frequencies
- Q selectable from 0.4 to 4.0
- Extremely low noise: -106 dBu
- Gold relays, connectors, and switches
- Silver Teflon power wiring, Mogami Neglex OFC audio wiring
- Upgraded power supply
- Handcrafted in Northern California
