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In the Thread: Signal variation, noise, and effects on circuit topology

Post Subject: VoicingPosted by drdna on: 12/7/2008

thorsten wrote:
Designers like Kondo San spend many hundred hours "voicing" their Amplifiers, allowing a blending of a variety of colorations together in such a way that the overall sonic impact is quite small. For many others (amateur or professional alike) such extended working is not an option and hence circuits with a strong character and inherent substantial sonic problems are best avoided.

Here is an example of what I mean. Thorsten's excellent article discusses exhaustively several DHT circuit topologies and their various benefits and disadvantages. It is an excellent article, and there is no question in my mind that he is absolutely correct in his perspective; a good deal of attention must be paid to circuit topology. However, he opens the door with statements like the above quote, where it becomes clear that there is a lot more "fine tuning by ear" that must be done, when all the mathematics is over. This is what I hope to explore. Here is the unknown territory, where others have walked, but much like people crawling in a cave with no flashlight, and no maps have been made systematically.

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