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I own a bunch of amps and decided to have a bit of fun...
Test setup:
- umik about one meter away from a KEF LS 50
- levels matched with REW logging 89.4 and 89.6 peak.
- CD quality source on AUX
- one of the amps I subjectively find too bright (reference - solid state, but not "digital" )
- the amp I subjectively find smooth, too smooth for many things, but great for soft jazz at night and female voices . Tube/SS hybrid
- some background noise
both around 10-15 years old, members of my "swap pile" audio stuff.
Will probably do the same type of comparisons with the big systems at some point but moving 85 kg speakers, switching XLRs, preamps, matching levels etc really a lot of work.
There is definitely a correlation between my too bright and too smooth perception and the measurements
Initial peak values File 1: -18.183dB File 2: -19.437dB
Initial RMS values File 1: -37.505dB File 2: -36.219dB
Test setup:
- umik about one meter away from a KEF LS 50
- levels matched with REW logging 89.4 and 89.6 peak.
- CD quality source on AUX
- one of the amps I subjectively find too bright (reference - solid state, but not "digital" )
- the amp I subjectively find smooth, too smooth for many things, but great for soft jazz at night and female voices . Tube/SS hybrid
- some background noise
both around 10-15 years old, members of my "swap pile" audio stuff.
Will probably do the same type of comparisons with the big systems at some point but moving 85 kg speakers, switching XLRs, preamps, matching levels etc really a lot of work.
There is definitely a correlation between my too bright and too smooth perception and the measurements
Initial peak values File 1: -18.183dB File 2: -19.437dB
Initial RMS values File 1: -37.505dB File 2: -36.219dB
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