A:Answer I bought the unit for a friend and right now it is at her house, and I really did not look over its features that carefully. All she wanted was a stereo receiver with a tuner that could play compact discs from a player I also bought for her. But I can hazard a guess about the equalizer issue. If the unit has an analog tape-monitor loop (and I am not sure this unit has one) an equalizer can be installed there. However, there might be issues with input overload in a loop hookup. Unfortunately, if there is no tape loop the user is out of luck. To best use an outboard equalizer it needs to be installed between the preamp and power-amp sections, and there are no exterior in/out links at the rear of this unit to do that. (No subwoofer line-level output to drive a powered outboard subwoofer, either.) I used equalizers for years and wrote about them in two books I authored. They are nice, but perhaps the best solution is to get good speakers to start with and then locate them optimally in the listening room. Without some kind of monitoring device (even a simple RTA or phone app for one) it is almost impossible to properly align an equalizer for the smoothest output from a pair of speakers.
