Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
It's more like slightly tweaking the colour or the brightness on your tv, to your individual taste.
There's a difference between presentation and quality. If you take CD players, they are mostly voiced one way or another. They also differ widely on how well they are engineered where it matters (power supply and the analogue output stage). The voicing determines the presentation, the engineering determines the quality of the sound.
So even if you prefer the voicing of Marantz to say, Sony, your still going to acknowledge that a heavily engineered Sony sounds better than a cost cut-engineered Marantz player. I mean I prefer the Sony voicing but I'd still take a flagship Marantz over a budget Sony any day.
I think conflating presentation and quality leads to a lot of needless arguments on forums.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
I had this idea years ago, not exactly the same, but your idea reminded me of it.
So what if you feed the output of a low output moving coil cartridge directly to an A/D converter. Without any modification, just digitize it. Then, add a few zeros to the numbers, to crank up the volume in the digital domain, perform your RIAA in the digital, and then feed it out to a DAC. I thought I may be onto something, but I think that may be how the newest PS Audio phono pre works? I’m not sure exactly what goes on inside the PS Audio box, but I think it’s got an A/D in it. It really is hard to have an original idea these days.
Years ago, before Digital was invented, I thought of a music card. A plastic film, that would have a zig zag path on it that would be dark and light, working exactly like the soundtrack on the edge of a roll of movie film. But instead of moving the plastic card, use a cathode ray to go back and forth, just as it does in a picture tube, and follow the zig zag path on the card, shining through it onto a large photo receptor, and it would play music with no moving parts. But of course digital has removed any need for such a device.
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If have understood this correctly isn’t this similar to what a speaker does when powered by a class D amplifier? Discrete changes in voltage at a specific time interval cause a transducer to effectively turn a digital signal into an analogue one without a digital conversion taken place per se.
You could also say this is what a DAC does as the output is actually a facsimile of an analogue signal made up of discrete voltages outputted at a specific frequency.
I like the idea, even if it is a bit Steampunk-like compared to what is already done.
I also like the other idea of an algorithm to look at the digital signal before and after the actual point to be converted and to try to learn how to fill in the gaps between samples. (if I have understood correctly). The current solution to do this a brute force increase in bit depth and sampling rate.
Of course we could always just have an analogue signal accurately traced into a groove and get the information off by a mechanical means. Effectively unlimited sample rate and bit depth if a bit truncated.
~Paul~
Think that was philips analogue optical audio disc..was quite big
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