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In Reply to: How can you hear DC? posted by Timbo in Oz on December 4, 2016 at 04:13:40:
Tim, I cannot tell you "why", except for spouting the known facts about switching noise, etc. But for years I used hexfreds in my home brew or tweaked commercial gear, when tube rectifiers were impractical. Then when Schottkys became generally available, I switched to Schottkys, went back and changed over from Hexfreds to Schottkys in a few preamplifiers and in my big OTL amplifier monoblocks. I know there is a lot of self-deception built into this hobby, and I am very much a believer in listener bias, but all of that said, I hear something less in the way of an "electronic" sound, for want of a better word, with Schottkys vs Hexfreds. Plus, they are no more expensive than freds in most cases. The difference is subtle but real to me. Schottkys are much closer to tube rectifier sound (whatever that is), too.
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- RE: How can you hear DC? - Lew 11:03:00 12/04/16 (1)
- okay! :-) - Timbo in Oz 18:16:27 12/04/16 (0)
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