🚀 go-pugleaf

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

> >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.
 
> What is better: a contraption where almost every parameter can be
> (mis) adjusted by the ignorant user or a fixed correction (like the
> RIAA- or NAB correction in a phono- or tape head preamp) ?

But those corrections are designed to restore a dialed in
equalization curve by the recording engineer (to aid in
making a proper recording) to flat-response, pristine
status. Your dialed-in amp diddlings are not that way at
all. They intentionally color the sound and run completely
counter to the need for per-channel clean performance.

> >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.
 
> And I maintain my position that for a certain preferred sound from the
> entire system, a fixed correction in just one link of the chain is
> entirely justified.

Enjoy your toys, slick.

> >> As a "professional audio clown" you should know that.
> 
> >Note that I am retired.
 
> Make that "retired professional audio clown", note.

If you only knew. Yes, I am getting out of it. I recently
started reading heavily again (librarian, remember?) and
discovered just how much I had been missing since becoming
an audio writer. I just finished a book published 42 years
ago and not only enjoyed the hell out of it (it was an
intellectual history book written by Crane Brinton) but also
marveled at its excellent condition. Like new, actually.
Quite in contrast to computers that go into obsolescence
after four or five years.

> >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.
 
> An amp is just a link in a long chain.
> you accept the choices the recorcing and mastering engineer made, why
> not accept the choice your amp designer made, especially when you like
> the final result?

There is no figuring the taste of the unsophisticated mind.

> >Face it. You like toys, and toy playing is your primary
> >goal.
 
> I must admit to liking toys, but only when they run on > 250V.
> My primary goal is to create a reproduction of my preferred music that
> pleases me.

Ignorance is bliss.
 
> Tell me Howard: if you could sue those tweakos for that, you'd do so,
> wouldn't you? ;-)

No, I now realize that there is no point in hanging around
with fools.

Howard Ferstler