Resistor Sound Quality Shootout

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Tonewheels exist to help with the lack of vocabulary. But none of the resistor rolling fetishists seem to want to even try and use a common tool, rather preferring to copy others in using flowery language. The OP launched in as if these were HUGE differences which immediately opens him up to questioning.
 
Because they are meaningless. And anyone who has been in front of a DAW or mixing desk would know it takes quite a lot of frequency shaping and effects to generate that difference. Way more than a simple resistor change on the input.


If he had just listed in order of preference that would have been of more use than pointless wooly words translated from Russian.

Meaningless! Bill, this comment clearly indicates you are a sligfick with dangerous gomislope and couldn't differentiate a flergnog from a zipplefelx.

Now Jan that is jazz dancing.

I see no reason to insult folks for what they hear. Particularly those who hear voices telling them to use their guns...

Or for the interpretation impaired, his thread has run the course and is just getting sillier and sillier.
 
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Have you ever read that Scott took a Bybee apart and have you ever read the commercial text that Bybee has on their site ?
I believe SY did. I think that's why I never got them back. 🙂 IIRC, it looked and measured suspiciously like a small resistor. And yes, the pitch on the Bybee site is rather amusing as I remember. After reading it, I couldn't help but get my order in quickly as there was no doubt they were going to sell out quickly.
 
"...anyone who has been in front of a DAW or mixing desk would know it takes quite a lot of frequency shaping and effects to generate that difference..."

I get what you are saying, but the effects audiophiles often obsess over are typically tiny when compared to what can be done in a DAW. Seems like there are not words to describe tiny things in perceptual detail. IME at some point people have to listen in the same room at the same time to understand each other's perceptual vocabulary. For sure its a problem. That said, there still are small differences that maybe only a few people care about.

You either don't understand or deliberatly cloud the point (again). What he said was to create the differences the op claims to hear takes large changes that need a daw to make. These are not small differences. Anyone who mixes or masters knows this. These changes will not appear across a SHUNT resistor.

Why is it so important to you that everything makes a difference? It doesn't.
 
If you ran a bit of current through one, say, maybe an amp or two, did it measure any excess noise? Seriously, I wonder about that. Don't wonder enough to buy one though.

Of course it does; as I said, 1/f noise at low frequency, on top of Johnson noise, is an universal solid state matter property.

So, is excess noise good or bad for the sound?
 
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Some people can apparently hear the sound of coal from one mine as opposed to another mine. Whatever those sorts of differences are that some people can hear and other people can't seems like an interesting subject for potential study. Maybe Bybees produced their own noise sound. Don't know just wondering.
 
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I wouldn't be surprised if the OP is enjoying his popcorn, thinking Mission Accomplished 😎

Jan

It could be more depraved than that
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