So what is so special about this Blowtorch preamp? I might be able to get a schematic if anyone's interested...
Difference is that they're not stuck in 1968 and are familiar with, and know how to use, modern tools.
Schematics are rather beside the point, as has been discussed at length in this thread. Please read it.
Yes, folks! I could not give you an accurate schematic, even if you were willing to pay me for it! '-)
What's the big deal? One of my friends overseas has constant access to one. I'll ask him to send me high quality photos of the font/back of the circuit boards and I'll trace them out. Or he can trace it there...
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?
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?
Go for it, ridikas! I could use a complete schematic. Somebody did the Vendetta Phono Stage once, and I have it in my files. Very useful.
Doubt it. None of these methods or software were available in 1968. Or 1978, for that matter.
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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Transfers from vinyl, with software noise suppression (for those like me who can't write their own, at least) is one case where a very wide bandwidth can be helpful. Folks consistently report better results with 96Ks/S than with 44.1. Maybe because the software can see leading edges better.
All good fortune,
Chris
All good fortune,
Chris
yeah that makes sense, when there is a secondary layer of processing going on over the top of the audio data it would seem prudent to have the process act well above the audio bandwidth
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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Join the crowd, I have several products that have no schematics because they preceeded the CAD software.
When are you going to tell him it will do him no good?
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