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In Reply to: RE: If there was such a thing as required reading for audio enthusiasts, this should be on the short list... posted by kuribo on August 09, 2015 at 12:35:30
I know of no better sonic compressor than a healthy amount of global feedback.
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I also like this part
"As long as the scope shows no difference between incoming and outgoing signals, it does not matter how an amplifier sounds in your living room with your loudspeakers. All that matters is the easily specified voltages and currents created by the electrons. Engineering has met its conditions of satisfaction, which do not include your enjoyment. Adding a slight boost at the mid-frequencies would devastate the amplifier's 0.0002% distortion rating."
Given that it is from the tubecad journal one wonders about the irony...
appeal to - well you know!
Anyone can parse text or take things out of context...What about the rest of the article? You know, where he writes things like:
"Remember H. L. Mencken's definition of a Puritan as someone with the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. Happy? Why would you want to be happy, when you could be right? But what if happiness was the goal and not absolutes? Stop and think about the consequences: if our sonic enjoyment becomes the object of our efforts in audio design, why then we might just go on to wanting chairs and sofas to be comfortable, not just orthopedically correct; office buildings to be beautiful to behold, not just volumetrically efficient boxes; and food to be delicious, not just nutritious.
We would want to abandon singular and constant absolutes for varied and changing tastes. Supposedly objective experts would have a hard time selling absolute audio magazines, as no one could (at least with a straight face) proclaim the superiority of his own absolutely correct taste. Rock 'n roll, rap, reggae, and modern country music aficionados could no longer be derided justly by those who preferred an acoustically pure music such as jazz and classical. What sonic flavor would make everyone happy? I do not know; which one shoe size would make everyone happy? All must choose their own preferences. Without sonic controls, there can be no choosing."
try it! you know you want to!
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