Are DBTs the defacto standard for Audio Science research?

[Phelonious Ponk]

Yes of course speakers have a bigger impact. But just because 1 thing has a bigger impact, it doesn't mean other things don't. If everyone had the same taste, there would only be one type of everything out there. I designed an input buffer for the Hypex NC-500 amps where you can change the opamp to alter the tonal balance to subjective tastes. So far almost everyone has had a different opinion of which they like best in their system. Yet they all describe the same sonic signatures unique to each opamp exactly the same. This concept is such a big hit that a bunch of guys are copying the idea now.

Sounds like an awfully expensive, complex and ultimately ineffective tone control.

Tim

 

[Mivera]

Sounds like an awfully expensive, complex and ultimately ineffective tone control.

Tim

Yes I know some of those op amps cost a whole $1.30 a piece. It would be a deal breaker for you for sure.

 

[Purité Audio]

A cheap op amp in Tim's signal path, how very dare you!
Keith

 

[Thomas savage]

Yes I know some of those op amps cost a whole $1.30 a piece. It would be a deal breaker for you for sure.

I think it great you can blend your audio shake this way. Something to mess about with on those dark winters evenings.

 

[AJ Soundfield]

Something to mess about with

That's an apt characterization.

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

Other than the low cost of the op amps how is this different from any other tone control through component change?

 

[Fitzcaraldo215]

Yes I know some of those op amps cost a whole $1.30 a piece. It would be a deal breaker for you for sure.

If it is performance that counts, and if to you subjective preference counts even more, what is wrong, per se, about cheap? Does expensive automatically equal better? If so, we should all totally turn our noses up at the Hypex modules you love so much. They are too damn cheap. Give me those Soulution monoblocks instead.

 

[Mivera]

If it is performance that counts, and if to you subjective preference counts even more, what is wrong, per se, about cheap? Does expensive automatically equal better? If so, we should all totally turn our noses up at the Hypex modules you love so much. They are too damn cheap. Give me those Soulution monoblocks instead.

If it's only 5 cents for the opamp it doesn't matter. That's the beauty of this design. The end user decides what's important to them.