What is wrong with op-amps?

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RIAA is a frequency pre-emphasis de-emphasis system. I don't quite want to invest time in trying to understand "raw LP tracked sound to compensate the helical tracking of the tangent cutters of the master lathe", but it projects strong images of an ape behind a typewriter.
 
yes, even the base realities of RIAA Mastering Practice accuracy introduced phase and frequency uncertainty magnitudes blow away the properly enumerated objections re op amp, feedback implementations

RIAA curve accuracy is a easily pursued numbers game but in fact the cutting room engineer re-equalizes the master tape source on his own monitor system (different from the mastering monitor setup) to his own taste (hopefully with the goal of reproducing the master eq on the produced vinyl) there is no reason to expect even skilled recording engineers to approach 0.1 dB accuracy (~= 1%) in such a scenario

how about those different mastering studio response?
 

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morinix, I don't see any problem with your approach with an inductor and so forth. If we are talking about using some kind if iron or ferrite core inductor, it may in fact sound better to most people.

On the other hand, the explanation offered about op-amp feedback delay is not the most plausible one for why the passive, inductor network sounds better to many or most people, and especially so for critical listeners.
 
Tell me this: How does a voltage that appears at the opamp output get through the feedback loop to the inverting input with absolutely no time delay?

In case you get the urge to think: how much time does the feedback signal take from the deviation of your bicycle from straight path, to your eyes, to your brain processing, generating a control signal, send it to your hands/arms to do the correction, and you never (almost never) fall down? Isn't feedback wonderful . 😀

Jan
 
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