John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part II

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John,
My question for you is this. If a company came to you today and said we want you to design the best preamp package that you can, and you have to use components that are available today, and not second sourced from someone's stock of NOS devices what would you do? How would you build your design today, not ten years ago, and not using unobtainium devices for a manufacturer, could you do that and not use any opamps, or do you still think that you could get to the highest level with currently available discrete devices?
 
yet another attempt to elevate yourself above others ends with you looking silly... your statement makes no sense. Us still trying to do what you were doing 45 years ago? how about the fact that YOU are still (in some respects) trying to do what you were doing 45 years ago?
 
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Hi, how do you explain that, sometimes, even with digital distortion , a CD can make you hear a REAL acoustic instrument (keyboard) in front of you ? The surface noises become less sensitive, as a sort of disturbance played BEHIND the music , far behind the scene ??

May the devil take my soul:)
You norrty, norrty boy ... !!!

But, good point still. Poorer digital replay has its particularly pernicious distortion, noise modulation, call it what you want, so thoroughly enmeshed, blended with the main mesage that it's totally impossible to see it as being separate. Hence, the oodles and oodles of "bad" CDs that many people have, they've never heard them anywhere near what they really do sound like; they would fall off their proverbial chairs, from a great height, if the underlying music came out straight for once ...
 
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