🚀 go-pugleaf

Sander deWaal wrote:
> 
> Howard Ferstler <ferstle@attglobal.net> said:

> >Because with audio gear (amps, players, wires, definitely)
> >the components with fixed outputs or fixed abilities should
> >be transparent. If a user wants to modify the sound he
> >should have the ability to do so as an option.
 
> Good. Now we're getting somewhere.
> Modifying the sound can be done by other means than just tone
> controls.

Sure. I use dbx dynamic range enhancers and bass
synthesizers with SOME pop materials and also with SOME (non
DD or DTS) movie sources. I also use DSP to synthesize
additional channels with two-channel sources. All sorts of
options are there.

However, you STILL want the amps to do nothing more than
amplify. Having them color all source materials in the same
way is, as I noted, akin to looking through the world full
time while wearing colored sun glasses.

> As a "professional audio clown" you should know that.

Note that I am retired.
 
> >Applying the
> >same colorations to all recordings (as is the case with
> >those weird amps you build) is like looking at the world
> >with colored glasses all the time - indoors, outdoors, rain,
> >or shine.
 
> And according to a certain Howard Ferstler this is OK.
> It says so above:
> [quote]
> >If a user wants to modify the sound he
> >should have the ability to do so as an option.
> [/quote]
> This option is available when using one of my amps.

But it cannot be adjusted. And switching amps to color the
sound that way sounds like an awkward way to achieve goals
that should be very simple.

Face it. You like toys, and toy playing is your primary
goal.
 
Howard Ferstler