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In Reply to: Re: That "myth" was born in Audio magazine, c.1979, by Jung and Curl -- been known ever since. nt posted by john curl on March 6, 2007 at 14:38:04:
It's about an experimental setup that is seriously flawed yet the experimenter draws "valid" conclusions.btw., can't find your article, it's listed in the 1979 author index but it's not in any of the 1979 issues.
Further, has cap distortion ever been subjected to (published) controlled listening tests and if yes, what were the results?
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That's a dumb question, Klaus. Since when do we have double blind tests on non-linear cap distortion? If you like to listen to distortion, be my guest. It adds that slight 'edge' to the sound that is typical of mid fi.
I can't find my 'Audio' article date at the moment, but you will get the same info from:
IEEE Mar 1978, IEEE Audio and Electroacoustics meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma pp 263-266.
Why don't you get some test equipment and measure it yourself? Ever actually get your hands on test equipment?
Especialy from the consumer's perspective.
Overnight I started building my kits with mil-spec polycarbonate caps in hermetic cans.
I admit that I stole them from my employer.
"That's a dumb question, Klaus. Since when do we have double blind tests on non-linear cap distortion?"Really.....and yet the conclusions you draw from the measurements of this form of distortion and implement in your designs are supposed to be audible? At least that is what the reviewer or whoever claims in Klaus' post.
Music making the painting, recording it the photograph
Sure, I investigated flow of surfactant solutions in porous media.Distortion, every time I put on a record, there's plenty of it, so yes, I listen to distortion every day:-)
making a complete fool of yourself isn't so bad over there!
Sorry your vinyl playback gear is so lame.
As remedy I suggest the AES Disk Recording Anthology, vol. 1 and 2.
Soon as I finish War and Peace.
give it top priority after War and Peace.
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