No, it is called an hyperactive "intentional" gain stage. Many circuits compress anyway.
Only because of intentional impedance transfer, does it add gain, and gain equals dynamic enhancement in most cases....Like any well built line stage will within calibration.
Besides, I designed the goddamned thing 9 years ago. I know what it does.
DC, I use calibrated devices, you got an axe to grind? Seems like your replies have been augmented (to me personally) by negative response as of late.
No, it does not introduce harmonic or intermodulation distortion that is measurable.
So you take me as some sort of a joke? I certainly hope not.
You should try one someday. It allows you to hear the fine details.
If anything, it eliminates the distortions of the poorly designed line stages absorbing content, out there in use, enmass.
I am not dropping names, out of respect as well.
It would be advisable to consider the same for me..if you will.
Can't we get along around here?
"distortion" No, when you consider how much typical loudspeakers, less than 4% eff. burn up in heat, I call it compensation. It is doing wonderful things considering most loudspeakers are far from linear dynamic over a wide bandwidth. How about your room correction. Measure it, see how much it is soaking out of your voltage swings, to ears. Hummm.
A. Take B&K lab instuments. Do a reference reading at reference FQ. Increase voltage by X2. Measure loudspeaker. See how far off at one meter it is from 3dB increase. Add line buffer, measure again. Calibrate your monitoring system. Is this something you have done or measured? Really? How often?
Come on now.
(Hint?)
(I hear the rumblings backstage, I was not born last week)
Some of this mistrust and lack of knowlege of physics makes me fucking ill.