Michael R Price
Screenwriter
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But Lance, 99% of all amplifiers, especially modern solid state, have a perfectly flat frequency response within a fraction of a decibel across the audio band. Some amps do have output impedance that changes the frequency response, but the difference is not so much (unless it's some extreme no-feedback tube amp with 4 ohms Z), it's under 1db with most speakers. I think the differences in amplifier tone are related to the kind of distortion they produce.
I agree mostly with the rest of your post. I think the reason some people don't like digital systems is that many of them, including mine (and like some cheap solid state amplifiers), generate a lot of "bright" distortion because the signal is often routed though complicated IC's and circuits with noisy power supplies. A better amplifier, for example, has made my system sound much cleaner and more pleasing without compromising the realistic, exciting aspect of the sound.
I agree that many people just automatically think "warmer is better." This is not the case, but I think that the negative connotation of the word "bright" comes from understandably negative impressions of some lower quality equipment... and shouldn't be applied to good quality equipment with a more forward sound.
I agree mostly with the rest of your post. I think the reason some people don't like digital systems is that many of them, including mine (and like some cheap solid state amplifiers), generate a lot of "bright" distortion because the signal is often routed though complicated IC's and circuits with noisy power supplies. A better amplifier, for example, has made my system sound much cleaner and more pleasing without compromising the realistic, exciting aspect of the sound.
I agree that many people just automatically think "warmer is better." This is not the case, but I think that the negative connotation of the word "bright" comes from understandably negative impressions of some lower quality equipment... and shouldn't be applied to good quality equipment with a more forward sound.