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Am I supposed to list my gear down here?
If you gave your EQ a midbass hump around a certain area, or slightly rolled off the treble then yes I do think EQ can make an amp sound like another amp. EQ may also be used to roll off the extreme bass to better suit a room / speaker interface.
Last edited by Yomanze; 22-10-2017 at 13:04.
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I suppose it is worth mentioning that good amplifiers, used within their limits, should all sound pretty similar anyway. The only reason there are differences are that a lot of amps are not very good, or they are intentionally coloured, or they are run into clipping.
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My mistake - it was the Audio Critic magazine who put up ML-2s for the Carver Challenge. https://www.stereophile.com/content/...enge-responses
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That would be a very poorly designed Valve amp, well designed valve amps often have a higher frequency response than even the best solid state designs.
Its true that the output transformer can be the weakest link in the chain though, especialy at low frequencies. All conventional loudspeaker drive units have moving goal posts, where Frequency versus impedance is concerned. Therefore; both topologies of amp will put diffrent amounts of power into the changing speaker impedances, over the audio frequency range.
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Oh dear Mr stratmangler.....slight grammar errors due to spellchecker and you blow a fucking gasket.
Shame on you.
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Somehow my morning coffee has completely failed to soak in- but I think Carver succeeded in emulating the Mark Levinson too. However, he did at one stage make the mistake of making his amp sound BETTER than the ML, so he had to turn down the performance of his amp.
If he's pulled it off twice (in 48 hours each), one must wonder what's achievable with more time but less genius
Am I supposed to list my gear down here?
What I don't understand, in reference to spellcheckers (and predictive text), is no matter how good or bad they are, presumably YOU still get the chance to 'check' what's there, and make sure all is ok, before hitting the 'Submit Reply' button?
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True but they are a bit of a can't live with / can't live without feature in these days of soft mobile keyboards. Plain annoying either way.