In Reply to: RE: Where does the current come from? posted by cpotl on August 27, 2012 at 04:26:27:
AS the sims showed, IMHO, there is much more to this than the few items you have identified that " should be capable of revealing all differences between different supply configurations."
"Since the power supply is in the audio path, and since the audio path is principally through the output capacitor in the supply, then it is certainly believable that a lower value of output capacitor could provide an audible coloration relative to a higher value."
And what values would they be? Too high for one man may be to low for another. Who is arbiter of fact on these values?
It might be "hard to see how there could be any desirable quality that would result from a lower value of capacitor" but there may well be and for reasons you haven't thought of. That is too a fair conclusion to come to.
Once you go down the route that somehow any form of blind testing is going to tell you anything, then that is in itself bunkum and has nothing to do with science.
If a few probes with some test equipment would solve all, then there would be no need for discussion. The sort of thing Dave is alluding to, the notion of musicality; what configurations and parts make it "musical", is more akin to cooking than science which IMHO, what makes it fun. Be handy if it would correlate to the sim or even if we could measure something along those lines.
cheers,
Stephen
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- RE: Where does the current come from? - Stephen R 06:06:34 08/27/12 (13)
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