Review: DOUK AUDIO T8 Pro 7-BAND Equalizer! 

It's early in the morning and the wife is still sleeping I picked up my phone in bed and watched your video with closed captions and the sound off. I was thoroughly entertained and enlightened. Love the content and humor! You make hifi, lowfi, midfi and funfi feel like it's mifi (TM)!

I'm a fan of your videos. I'm pretty stoked when I see a new one. You look like you're having fun and it's nice to see someone enjoy their gear and their records. Plus the Kissa bar you (and your friends) made is enviable.

Fun is the best thing to have. So FUNFI works for me. My ten band graphic equalizer has been out of operation for quite some time, Enjoy your videos and thanks.

Holy moly, that was a terrific video. Love your style!

Fun-Fi! Love it!!!! I may have gone a bit crazy and purchased four Fosi and Ayima products and have been really impressed!!!! Great video, again!!!!

I really like “Fun Fi” and will use it. Not demeaning like the other phrase. I also built a Jazz Kissa after your inspiration. A work in progress but I really like it. Thank you for showing yours! Cheers!

Saw the review of this piece of gear on Randy's channel already but really liked your perspective on this!! Thanks for another great episode of US of A. Oh and just a little tip to maybe consider: if possible try placing the teleprompter/notes on a little above your camera. It will make it seem more like a conversation between you and the viewer and less like a lecture. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪✌️

EQs are fun. I had a Quadraphonic Blaupunkt in my car with an EQ. Had EQs on a couple of the popular mini systems in the '80s as well.Good times.

Great show! Love the new word! FUN-FI! "Fun is my Chinese neighbor's middle name!"- Fred Randall, Rocketman

Oh! Love your lamp shade in the background! Nice lighting. Ha! Guessing vintage also.

I usually enjoy watching the install and operation the item being reviewed.

Fun-Fi! Love it! And Talking Heads Movie/Live! I was listening the other night on the Zu's... The Fun-Fi Speakers on the old Sansui 4000! These EQ's are fantastic, I have a Lokius sitting here and I think I am going to plunk down a few bucks for another pair of Blue Jean TT cables and put the little Schiit into action with the Mofi SD TT. And this is the reason I love the WiiM products, that 10 band EQ, it just takes that inexpensive streamer to new levels. I turned my buddy Ed onto the WiiM, he just bought the EverSolo Streamer... He loves the WiiM Pro! He said he will keep the EverSolo for the VU meters... I think he was pissed. ;-)

I really enjoy your videos. You look like you are having fun making them. I remember back in the 70s it seemed like a lot of guys in the barracks had equalizers and they usually had all the sliders pushed all the way up. Lively but crappy sound.

I always thought the EQ's WITH the spectrum display was more of an 80s thing because all of the EQ's I saw from the 70s had only those sliders but i digress. I will say this...that EQ with said spectrum display was a must-have in the 80s which was my decade. No stereo rack or pieced-together system was complete without that EQ with the dancing lights...it was a helluva fun decade for me. I can recall my Kenwood rack stereo from late-1990, which was their flagship model at that time, cost me well over $1650 clams to get it, had that EQ & display built into their control amplifier, and it was mesmerizing to behold. The power amplifier had moving red lights as well. When I turned it all on it reminded me of what the cockpit of a TIE fighter would look like. It did not need a subwoofer at all. I'm surprised that I retained my hearing. And it came with a cabinet and remote! 😜 No...I did not keep it and that's a regret. However I did manage to find all of the necessary model numbers for all 5 components and the tower speakers, so one day I just may decide to get it all back, but that's just me. I've been scouting modern EQ's lately including a rather unique one by Bellari called the SE560 Sonic Exciter, and their more recent 4-band EQ570. I love their trademark fire engine red color on both units. I've also been looking at the Schiit Loki Mini+ which is a 4-band EQ as well. However, the Douk Audio EQ, thanks to this video, has been added to my short list of 4 considerations. Decisions...Decisions....😜

Back in the 70’s I had the soundcraftmens eq. Those were the days, (yeah old man here). I borrowed a white noise generator, a scope and a microphone, and with that eq, set my speakers to flat for the room. Never touched the EQ again, if I wanted to tweak I had Bass, Mid, and Treble controls on the ol’ Sansui.

Thanks for the trip to the People’s Republic of Fun-fi!

One super cool thing I do with my AR XA turntable, if an album sounds a bit to bright I take off my acrylic mat and put a wool mat on instead. Sometimes that all it takes. I do this fairly often rather changing my EQ settings. You would be amazed how well this works at times. Running a beautiful Shure V15 III,,, 1970's chromed cartridge.

FWIW ... that is not a parametric equalizer. It is a volumetric equalizer. The difference is that in a parametric EQ the centre frequencies of the bands are also adjustable. That is... each band has a Level and Frequency adjustment. If Douk had not shoehorned a pair of tubes into their design, I might have bought one.

Was hoping this was a parametric EQ. I love those things! Parametric EQ's so much more useful. Can pull back a bad single freq instead of trying to make up for it with adjacent sliders. All good.

Great video. Yup most of us cannot afford a $4,500 dollar Macintosh tube amp so that being said I am a believer in having fun also.

I'm looking at the Ramones album in the background (my favorite! I love side 2) and I think they would agree Fun-Fi is better than Chi-Fi.

Synchronicity alerts, I woke up with muskrat love in my head

It's 'oh-gle' of course! At least that's how it's spaketh over here in the King's English. You and Randy should do a double-act show together - 'Bob and Randy's Cheap Audio Funfi'.

Randy Rocks! Go Navy!

Just want to ask if 'all' hifi isn't 'fun-fi', especially if it fills your ears and heart with joy? Love the patent vocabulary. You educate and entertain us all. Thanks for your perspectives, time, and effort sharing this with us all. BTW, you keep distracting me with, oooohhhh, VU meters, glowing tubes, Muscrat Love, and Afternoon Delight. 😂😂 I still have my spectrum analyzer/EQ with bouncing levels. p.s. Love Levon!

Good review!I have been using T8 Pro for three months. It's fun and i enjoy it. And I just discovered an incredible flaw in it today!(My source is PC, using XLR output for active speakers)If you set the left channel volume of your PC's volume balance to 0. Then play a song and you will hear a very small sound coming from the left channel...but it shouldn't be!Is this a special case? or is it an internal design problem of T8?

I bought both the T8's and liked them both sound wise, for the money can overlook some of the build quality. The 5 band I kept and sent the 7 band back because it's tubes are just to hard to get hold of in my country other then the China tubes which I do not like so much, but the 5 band can roll many brands of tubes, and yes even though the both use 9 pin tubes the 7 band just cannot play other tubes outside of 6H1N-BN which seem to limit any rolling. That said if they made a 7 band using the default 5 band tubes 6N3 I would buy one instantly as that lower bass is nice for my subs.

Like the idea, would be fun, but why tubes?? I'll keep looking. Thanks for your content, enjoy what you're doing here.

Tip: Wth a 31 band eq, if you adjust 3 sliders at the same time it will save time and then make fine adjustments for the master. That said, I put a Douk NS:10-10P in the last position on the fx send and back into the return of a fender mustang. For all my adjusting I had to do using the 15 band, the Douk 2 band EQ for this solid state guitar amp was enough, and the resulting audio from the 12" Celestion was plenty warmer. So I matched the 15 band Behringer EQ up to my Douk HiFi system, which will do the same thing as this really, but with 8 more bands, With Veteran Teac speakers. Yum. I bought one of these ^^^, to run mics through. I listened to some old school stuff without all the heavy compression in FLAC format recorded off someone's turn table. We are lucky we people back then who would waste time on setting up a 31 band eq. For the money, these valve devices certainly give solid state a run for its money.

Nice, I went with the Lokius 👍

Can the LED's be changed to a different color? I'm new to this so I don't know

I use T8 Pro It is very nice but i want to upgrade OPAMP. Let me know how to change OPAMP and it's type wihic is single or double and is it possilbe? change to single to double?

I just luve me some fun fi. Got to get me one.

I'm still a fan of the ADC SS300SL Sound Shaper EQ with the spectrum analyzer and always will be but that's full size. I still want a small form factor like those old ADCs.

Hey does anybody know if this eq can also act as a direct box changing RCA unbalanced signal into XLR balanced?

What is the power consumption with those tubes? I'll have my system running hours a day. With what should I compare the consumption?

I have a Behringer Mini FBQ 9 band EQ. Works for me.

Love the Kissa. Give a listen to the original Muskrat Love (Muskrat Candlelight) by Willis Ramsey. Very nice.

Bob! Enjoyed the video, but..... You missed a Great, Some would say Tremendous opportunity to use Making Analog Fun Again. Audio products made in "Ghina" and "Ghia-Fi" are the foundations to MAFA. Also, a reference to Monty Python's "I Like Chinese" would not have been inappropriate. But that's all good. "Fun-Fi" has been released for the masses and I hope it catches on.

Have you tested with different tubes? DOUK AUDIO T8 Pro uses the 6H1N-BN is actually 6Н1П-ВИ Soviet tubes. After some research I found some info on the Lampizator website (they are boutique audiophile company from Poland) and their sound engineers say that basically there are 3 versions of this tube: 1. 6Н1П - standard; 2. 6Н1П-ВИ - prolonged life and durability, "impulse mode" intended use (this is the one used in T8 PRO but Lampizator said that from all 3 models this is to be avoided for audio purposes); 3. 6Н1П-EВ - even more prolonged life and durability (about 5000 hours) plus lowest noise. Seems like the premium option almost at the same price. So in my understanding the overall quality will only improve if the tubes are replaced with higher model (which is almost the same price) 6Н1П-ВИ --> 6Н1П-EВ (). Other suggestions to experiment with in terms of valves?

Anyone interested a Shure RXP3 cartridge is pretty sweet to. Pretty rich and balanced sounding.

Lovely video but I would reduce the dad jokes by 25 to 33 %. Also It's pretty clear you're reading.

If I had one I'd be twisting knobs for every track and it would distract me from the music, would be fun though

Is this a MM preamp or MC?

Muskrat Love? Got to be an American vice.

RIP Levon Helm, drummer of The Band....

It is by no means a parametric EQ.....!

U are reading from a Script...(? But though, very cool Review (: 😅

Put your prompter above the camera, not below, it's a little too obvious you're reading it.

The Chifi term is kind if you factor in what Xi is doing to us all. My step mother who is in fact from China told me to make this comment.

It is not parametric Eq as you said sometimes

I know I will not get free review sample from China, I can still call Chifi