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I'll be most interested in the outcome of this Nick.Nick wrote:I do have at least one more to build Bud, so I would be interested in getting a pair of yours for comparison purposes. I agree the Sowters are very nice, not expecting anything other than a comparison. Take it via email or PM if you prefer?
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Hysteresis? (Is that spelt right?)JackOfAll wrote:Thanks for the explanation.BudP wrote: The garble is an underlying deconstruction, something that I expect to hear with the levels of reproduction available, but hear as a, well, garble of the information. Not a distortion as such but a confusion in coherence and intelligability.
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Looks right to me.Mike H wrote:Hysteresis? (Is that spelt right?)JackOfAll wrote:Thanks for the explanation.BudP wrote: The garble is an underlying deconstruction, something that I expect to hear with the levels of reproduction available, but hear as a, well, garble of the information. Not a distortion as such but a confusion in coherence and intelligability.
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You are hearing something garbled 80db down from the signal level! Are you sure?BudP wrote:Garble in an autoformer....hmmmmm
......So my problem with autoformers is 60 to 80 db down from the signal level.....
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No. The only surety is that it is well underneath the typical signal level. I am pointing to the finishing resonances from a grand piano note, the information coming from the chassis after the sounding board decay is done. Or, the bow draw across the top string of a violin, that faintly coarse grainy shush, just after the note dies away. Or a non vocal reflection decay, from behind a chorale, when the reflection should only be that of voices. That level of signal.You are hearing something garbled 80db down from the signal level! Are you sure?
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Dunno if it helps (brother!) but you're not aloneBudP wrote:
This sort of minutiae gone wrong wears upon me. My wife points out that it is a sickness, this desire to hear the perspiration and oils popping from the skin of a musician, but there you have it.
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'No. The only surety is that it is well underneath the typical signal level. I am pointing to the finishing resonances from a grand piano note, the information coming from the chassis after the sounding board decay is done. Or, the bow draw across the top string of a violin, that faintly coarse grainy shush, just after the note dies away. Or a non vocal reflection decay, from behind a chorale, when the reflection should only be that of voices. That level of signal. '
Yep - that's exactly it - it isn't always there and my search so far has attributed it to the amp or the speakers - I have never delved so deep as to blame the transformers.
Once heard - you're in serious trouble.
Yep - that's exactly it - it isn't always there and my search so far has attributed it to the amp or the speakers - I have never delved so deep as to blame the transformers.
Once heard - you're in serious trouble.
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lol ..Dave the bass wrote:Dunno if it helps (brother!) but you're not aloneBudP wrote:
This sort of minutiae gone wrong wears upon me. My wife points out that it is a sickness, this desire to hear the perspiration and oils popping from the skin of a musician, but there you have it.
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The problem is Andrew, once you hear an OTL amp (which I am sure you have) you are left worrying considerably as to why output transformers are holding back so much.andrew Ivimey wrote:'No. The only surety is that it is well underneath the typical signal level. I am pointing to the finishing resonances from a grand piano note, the information coming from the chassis after the sounding board decay is done. Or, the bow draw across the top string of a violin, that faintly coarse grainy shush, just after the note dies away. Or a non vocal reflection decay, from behind a chorale, when the reflection should only be that of voices. That level of signal. '
Yep - that's exactly it - it isn't always there and my search so far has attributed it to the amp or the speakers - I have never delved so deep as to blame the transformers.
Once heard - you're in serious trouble.