sound engineering

I love the clarity and transparency of today's solid state amps. I am an advocate, like most of you, of hearing songs as the artist/producer/engineer meant them to be heard - without coloration or distortions (imagine the Mona Lisa as a blond or redhead...yikes). In the early 60s, my parents...

In order to try to understand subjective perceptions to objective data, need to understand some fundamentals of audio engineering. E.g. what is mic level output, what is line level output. How does audio signal in DB get converted into analog voltage and current values? E.g. if mic is recording...