Reply-To: "Kevin Aylward"
From: "Kevin Aylward"
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Subject: Re: Diodes as collector load?
Organization: AnaSoft
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"Ian Buckner" wrote in message
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>
> "Jorge Omar" wrote in message
> news:e69389e6.0209061810.28ecbb52@posting.google.com...
> > Hello, Fred
> >
> > Thanks for your comments.
> >
> > - I'm trying to do a non-scientific experiment in euphonics - the
> > theory by whish even harmonics are pleasant (even in fairly
> > significant ammounts) to the ear, and that should be the main reason
> > tube SE tube amps are higly regarded by some.
> > (Shiels up! Heavy flames ahead!) ((-:
> >
>
>
> Many years ago in another life, I designed a preamp that had two
> (switched) paths. One had a distortion level of 0.005%, the other
> path had a bucket brigade delay line in it which increased the
> distortion by 10x to 0.05%, almost all 2nd harmonic (plus, the
> noise was worse, I don't recall by how much).
>
> This was reviewed in the hifi press, and there were a number of
> comments that the reviewers preferred the sound via the BBDL path.
>
I'd be a bit sceptical on this. I agree that distortion can be
perceived, as a clearer sound, and is probably part of the reason why I
prefer a tube amp set clean, then a transistor amp. However, I doubt
that distortions as low as 0.05% are really differentiable from 0.005%.
One main issue here, is that this distortion is setting on top of,
usually, a greater speaker distortion.
Kevin Aylward
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