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Analogue Vs. Digital

#122
seamonkey said:
Beethoven, Mozart, Name the great classical Pianist - didn't play was is known as a Modern Piano. They did great. The music sounds great on a Modern Piano, but we're not hearing it as the composer's wrote it. Bach, pure genius on the pipe organ. Transcribed to orchestra and other instruments - the music is good without pipe organs.

"Digital Amps" - "Linear Amps" - are nothing. They are not instruments, they are not music. For several decades for power amplifiers all sound the same.

Heads do add in this "pre-amp" part and each maker adds in special coloring. Pre-amps mean more to weak or strong sound than power amps.

As far as I'm concerned they can take out the coloring. I'll put it in with signal processing for the music I want. I have better control than what they shove into hacked gain and tone controls. And it is my real sound.
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I'm no classical music expert, but, are you implying that Bach wrote solely for pipe organ? He wrote for orchestra, harpsichord, what was then known as piano forte, lute, etc. His most famous piece ( arguably ) was The Air on the G String, which was written for Orchestra ( Orcestral Suite #3, I believe).
 
#126
2string1 said:
OK so whats your take on that question? Can the light weights keep up with the heavy weights?
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There are some who argue yes and some who argue no. I argue yes with qualifications. To me they don't sound like either tube amps or traditional solid state and hybrid amps. And IMHO they require you to buy more wattage than the other two types to have the headroom to play stupid loud. But they often sound excellent on their own terms and can pack enough wattage to play stupid loud and get your band fired from any gig. I use them all the time and have been quite happy with them in situations where it's impractical to bring a 250 lb tube rig.
 
#127
2string1 said:
Can the light weights keep up with the heavy weights?
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There's no reason to assume that they can't.

Certain lightweight amps might not be able to keep up with certain heavyweights.
Certain heavyweight amps might not be able to keep up with certain other heavyweights.
Certain heavyweight amps might not be able to keep up with certain lightweights.
Certain lightweight amps might not be able to keep up with certain other lightweights.
 
#128
Yes I believe from experience that they can. Now, I'm not saying they all sound the same! But in terms of moving air, sounding good, shaking dancer butts, and satisfactorily pumping out bass and tone, yes. They keep up just fine.

Of course it depends on the specific amp. :)
 
#130
B-string said:
It is not so much processing power as storage requirements.
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actually it is neither.
The main difference between good digital and bad digital is actually the analog part of the soundcard that feeds (or is fed by) the conversion chips. You can have the best converter chips in the world, but put a poorly implemented op-amp on the inputs and outputs and you get that flat, pinched, ugly sound. The same exact box with better opamps implemented well can sound stunning.

Yes, I paid Black Lion Audio to upgrade my MOTU 828MKII. It went from being a tolerable converter to being a jaw dropping converter. And I didn't do the clock mods with them. Just had the analog audio path upgraded.
I swear even through my subpar Alesis monitor ones (long gone now!) I could hear an extra octave above and an octave below the previous 828MKII's response. Kicks where seismic. Cymbals were shimmering, not raspy. My oboe soloes were both punchy and warm.
 

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