danlavry wrote on Mon, 13 March 2006 14:43 |
This is a technical forum. I have deleted the posts beyond this point, because they were not technical.
Regards Dan Lavry www.lavryengineering.com
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Dan,
Here's something to get back on the technical subject. I think the following questions would elicit information that many people are not aware of when talking about hitting a converter hard.
1.) What about the Gold design, or any high quality analog design in general, allows for hotter input signal before audible distress? The op amps? The power supply? Other components? How do these components behave differently from lesser examples?
2.) What is measureably different in what one sees at the output of lesser designs (even ones that are very good in their own right, like the blue) as compared to the better designs? Both clip, and full scale is full scale, so why does one sound better than another? Is it a difference between 2nd and 3rd harmonic levels? Is total distortion measurably less? What accounts for one clipped signal being preferable to another?
I think this kind of nitty gritty technical detail is what's usually missing from the discussion of hot levels, loudness, and distortion. Thank you very much for sharing your perspective on it.