In Reply to: RE: Can air & space be an artifact? posted by morricab on November 6, 2015 at 06:28:56:
... as to why tubes might add a sense of more space or depth than is actually on the recording, only that my purely passive preamps didn't have the same sense as my tube preamp, (and the latter, BTW, only with certain vintage tubes). Some have cited the phenomenon of microphonics in the case of tubes.The author of the Yggdrasil review speculated that some very "airy" sounding DACs, such as the Berkeley, cause ringing due their filtering method that might add a sense of air and space that isn't on the recording. Of course this would be a totally different cause than whatever might give tubes their attribute.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Edits: 11/06/15
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- I personally have no hypothesis ... - Feanor 07:39:42 11/06/15 (13)
- RE: I personally have no hypothesis ... - morricab 07:55:21 11/10/15 (1)
- I didn't call it "proof" - Feanor 18:56:35 11/10/15 (0)
- Depth - jusbe 14:57:20 11/06/15 (10)
- Old or new tech isn't the issue - Feanor 20:16:39 11/06/15 (9)
- RE: Old or new tech isn't the issue - morricab 07:52:40 11/10/15 (0)
- " I mean accuracy to the recording as it exists on the media I'm playing" - Ivan303 19:31:01 11/07/15 (6)
- That's a good question, nevertheless accuracy to the recorded media is my goal - Feanor 05:00:08 11/08/15 (5)
- Laudable goal.... - Ivan303 07:29:36 11/08/15 (3)
- As I've pointed out before, there's no such thing as "live sound" ... - Feanor 09:15:49 11/08/15 (2)
- RE: As I've pointed out before, there's no such thing as "live sound" ... - morricab 07:20:42 11/10/15 (0)
- RE: As I've pointed out before, there's no such thing as "live sound" ... - Ivan303 13:33:04 11/08/15 (0)
- I think most people agree with your goal - Dave_K 06:47:19 11/08/15 (0)
- Especially when it "improves" everything in the same manner, regardless of whether it needs it or not...nt - kuribo 13:28:00 11/07/15 (0)