Roy W. Rising wrote:
hank alrich wrote:
Roy W. Rising wrote:
"Paul Stamler" wrote:
"Roy W. Rising" wrote in message
Ah, so it's the quality of distortion! I never used a preamp to
add distortion, so I guess I know not whereof I speak. Maybe
Aphex' Marvin Caesar has "made a lot of money on distortion", but
I've made a lot of money avoiding or getting rid of it.
Read what I wrote again. One reason people buy better preamps is the
lack of distortion products that are annoying. LACK.
Peace,
Paul
OK, I've read it again. Oh. I get it. Buy a preamp with distortion
products that don't annoy. But ... why work in the distortion region
in the first place?
All the cheap preamps offer distortion. The better preamps I have offer
much less distortion. There is no perfect signal path.
Audition one of Grant Carpenter's Gordon Electronics preamps. It made
clean pres sound much less clean in comparison. Info at:
http://www.gordonaudio.com/
I looked at the Gordon link. NO distortion spec. I guess they don't have
any. Since others say that can't be so, someone is mistaken.
http://www.gordonaudio.com/specs.htm
Most complete set of pre specs I've found on the web. Even temp spec'd.
I maintain that any preamp with audible distortion is being abused. Unless,
of course, that's what you want. And then, I guess you want the more
expensive "less annoying" distortion rather than the less expensive more
annoying distortion.
There is no perfect signal path. Even sans abuse, a pre's distortion
products contribute to what we hear, or do not hear.
--
ha
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