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Old 8th Sep 2020, 11:08 pm   #1866
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Default Re: The Audiophoolery Thread.

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Originally Posted by knobtwiddler View Post
What parameters were they not measuring?
The ones I had in mind while writing that were things like overdrive recovery and slew-rate limiting. In a period when the move to silicon from germanium was pretty much complete. People just hadn't realised that waveforms found in music could stress more parameters than simple frequency response and distortion of a single sine. Then the likes of Matti Otala started publishing papers. I suspect he went a bit overboard, but he had uncovered a legitimate concern and an area which wasn't being properly handled.

Every now and then someone brings out an amplifier where it looks like nobody checked the crossover distortion. Maybe it was blind cost-paring. How to do it well has been documented well (Self)

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