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Audiophile sound quality off a hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Shonver" data-source="post: 12967" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>I would venture a guess that it is related to distortion signatures. IOW, different amplifiers produce different distortion products in different proportions. Also, different distortion levels are produced across the spectrum. And the distortion pattern changes across the spectrum. Just recently I witnessed a thread where loudspeaker designers were saying (essentially) that two speakers that are essentially the same, except that one is a regular consumer type while the other is a low-distortion type, would have to have different FR curves in order to voice them the same. This is is because the distortion products also have a "voice" that tend to populate the frequency spectrum away from the fundamental. I think that the effect observed for loudspeakers is the same or similar to that of amplifiers. Except, of course, that distortion levels in a reasonably good amp is orders of magnitude lower than what one encounters in a loudspeaker... just a gut feel...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shonver, post: 12967, member: 34"] I would venture a guess that it is related to distortion signatures. IOW, different amplifiers produce different distortion products in different proportions. Also, different distortion levels are produced across the spectrum. And the distortion pattern changes across the spectrum. Just recently I witnessed a thread where loudspeaker designers were saying (essentially) that two speakers that are essentially the same, except that one is a regular consumer type while the other is a low-distortion type, would have to have different FR curves in order to voice them the same. This is is because the distortion products also have a "voice" that tend to populate the frequency spectrum away from the fundamental. I think that the effect observed for loudspeakers is the same or similar to that of amplifiers. Except, of course, that distortion levels in a reasonably good amp is orders of magnitude lower than what one encounters in a loudspeaker... just a gut feel... [/QUOTE]
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