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RE: A question about system and stage gain balance.

Posted by Tre' (P) on October 15, 2016 at 09:18:57

In Reply to: RE: A question about system and stage gain balance. posted by kyle on October 15, 2016 at 07:34:09:

"The question was about why even DIY types make amps that have 1V sensitivity and preamps that have overly large amounts of gain. "

I have a theory about that.

I think, in some cases, the user likes the sound of distortion.

If you take away his ability to over drive the system he feels a loss of "dynamics".

Harmonic distortion is the addition of a series of high frequencies that weren't in the original input signal and if the HD goes up just at the peaks of the music (ie; the system enters over drive just on the peaks of the music) the music gets brighter and louder just on the peaks of the music and the user "hears" that as "dynamics".

Tre'


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