analog wrote on Thu, 09 March 2006 22:57 |
Dan, why is it that you can slam the input of the Lavry Gold so far before you hear audible distortion? Can you hit it harder with the saturation mode? Do you know if the Sterling guys use the Gold? How similar is the Blue saturation as the Gold? |
danlavry wrote on Fri, 10 March 2006 00:55 |
The gold front end is much better at "taking abuse", so it does not have an analog soft saturation. Yes, you can slam the gold very hard, and some high end mastering engineers take advantage of it to make the sound louder. The Sterling guys use Lavry Gold AD's. Regards Dan Lavry www.lavryengineering.com |
jazzius wrote on Fri, 10 March 2006 07:55 | ||
Dan, this sounds like a bit of marketing going on here! Was it designed to take this abuse?......is it just an accident?...it must have some technology employed to saturate the signal before it goes splatt! |
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 |
Revolution wrote on Wed, 15 March 2006 03:21 |
Dan is it by nature that a better quality convertor will take overs better or is it a concious consideration when designing such a product that it may be used in this way, meaning deliberate clipping. |
jfrigo wrote on Tue, 21 March 2006 00:19 | ||
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. |
driveblind wrote on Fri, 24 March 2006 09:39 | ||
Great questions !!!! Really Great questions !!!! |
jfrigo wrote on Tue, 28 March 2006 07:31 | ||||
If it's "better," there must be some quantifiable reason. There must be something that can be measured that's different. Perfect question for this forum I thought. |
danlavry wrote on Tue, 28 March 2006 09:34 |
If I tell you I have to kill you |
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Ronny wrote on Wed, 29 March 2006 02:47 |
Has this loudness disease finally gotten to the point that it now sounds better to clip the ADC? |