Вот нашёл инфу о железном приборе. Пишут, что шельф высоких частот один из самых лучших EQ. Сравнивают и ставят в один ряд с 'GEQ' and Pultec.
The Siemens W295B is a vintage, early 1970's, West German, discrete solid state 3-band eq with beautiful sounding transformer inputs and outputs and the very special Sitral transistor. The unit used for this release is all original in excellent working condition.
The W295B has a High Shelf eq, and Low Shelf eq, both with +/-15dB in 3dB increments. It also has a Middle Range bell eq with fixed frequencies of 700Hz, 1kHz, 1.5kHz, 2.3kHz, 3.5kHz, and 5.6kHz with +/- 8dB in 2dB increments.
It is regularly compared to the 'GEQ' and Pultec as the sweetest, silkiest sounding high end ever created, and remains in my top 5 best sounding shelf and mids as well! It is unique to other units, and has a special character all its own.
There are many other designs from the same era and later, that are based upon the same schematics, but because the parts used for the Siemens model were only made for their W295B production, and are no longer available, the difference in pristine quality from others like ANT, Filtek, BFE, etc. can be heard. Yes, there are others that come close, but none that are equal. After the closing of Telefunken's ELA, ANT arrived for replacements and servicing, but the original transistor created for the Siemens was replaced with rather plain sounding new parts, as is the case for the variant 'versions' of the '295'.
The Siemens used to be the best bargain in high end eq. You will find user's comments stating 'my favorite vocal eq' for tracking and 'my favorite mastering eq' for certain types of music. But now, the price for them climbs daily, as every unit that exists either resides in a high end studio or mastering facility, and very few ever return to circulation unless they cannot be serviced. Thanks to your support of "The Peak" EQ, I tracked down and purchased an extremely special unit specifically for this release.
