The Decware Pills make things sound more analogue! How do they work?

[SSS]

Any ideas what the magic is explained

PILLS | DECWARE

The Decware Pills - a perscription for that dry digital sound. Just insert these in the signal path between your DAC and preamp or amplifier.

www.decwareproducts.com

Take magic pharmacy pills and all is analog.

 

[Drengur]

I noticed the same and I’m from Denmark.

My condolences

 

[Sokel]

It probably kills all the upper treble the same way that MIT cable did with it's passive network (everything above 5kHz was doomed with that thing based on the component values) .
Boring.

 

[Mr Swing King]

My condolences

It’s alright. You just need to brush up on your grammar

 

[rank]

224,10 (gold) or 269,10 (silver).
Unsurprisingly they also make cables, phono inputs and apparently custom tube amplifiers and even speakers. Didn't know about them and was doing well so.

 

[raindance]

If it's a series capacitor it will remove DC which shouldn't be there anyway, filter out low frequencies, which if it is a large value might not affect much aside from introducing some phase shift and, if it is "too large" a value and you have a tube preamp, introduce blocking distortion.

It could also introduce a turn on pop that was not previously there when it charges.

What it does to treble would be largely due to parasitic effects and very, very slight.

 

[mhardy6647]

I ... ahem... I have one of their early tube amps. Not that I would admit that just anywhere.

 

[AaronJ]

What is more BS, this nonsense or their viewable wait list that goes back 2.5 YEARS! Who in their right mind would put down a 10% nonrefundable deposit to wait that long?!
https://orders.decware.com/list_view.php

Unsurprisingly Guttenberg gushes about their products.

 

[AdrianusG]

Any ideas what the magic is explained

PILLS | DECWARE

The Decware Pills - a perscription for that dry digital sound. Just insert these in the signal path between your DAC and preamp or amplifier.

www.decwareproducts.com

First of all, how does "more Analogue" supposed to sound? as i understand we humans can''t hear Digital, what should i listen for in this more analogue sound?

 

[prerich]

Just say no to drugs.

 

[JeffS7444]

Ironically, adding a new capacitor in series with the coupling capacitor already present in one's amplifier actually results in reduced effective capacitance! Check it out:
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/capacitors-in-series
This is first-semester physics stuff.

 

[raindance]

Ironically, adding a new capacitor in series with the coupling capacitor already present in one's amplifier actually results in reduced effective capacitance! Check it out:
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/capacitors-in-series
This is first-semester physics stuff.

It does! Hence the potential bass rolloff - however if the value of their cap is "really high" the effective capacitance will still be fairly close to what is already present.

 

[DearSX]

At less than $250 this is a bargain. I'm thinking about inserting it between a dCS DAC and mcIntosh Tube amp to help fix some of the digital to Analog Jiber. I'm planning to get Kimber cables to fix the Jaber in between all components.

 

[Ron Texas]

Don't put them in the signal path, swallow and try not to choke.

 

[Westsounds]

First of all, how does "more Analogue" supposed to sound? as i understand we humans can''t hear Digital, what should i listen for in this more analogue sound?

Analogue sound is in there underneath, there's just a lot of extra stuff that sometimes comes with the higher resolution. Some people call it digital fizz. It can actually sound a little annoying if its not kept under control. I was wondering if these things take out those higher frequencies that they are often found in. Cant say exactly where they are off the top of my head, perhaps 2.5 khz and around 4 ish.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Analogue sound is in there underneath, there's just a lot of extra stuff that sometimes comes with the higher resolution. Some people call it digital fizz. It can actually sound a little annoying if its not kept under control. I was wondering if these things take out those higher frequencies that they are often found in. Cant say exactly where they are off the top of my head, perhaps 2.5 khz and around 4 ish.

I'm not agreeing with any of this. However, if you believe a bit of a dip from 2.5 khz to 4 khz sounds better why not just EQ in that dip rather than this goofy accessory which btw will not have the effect you think you want?

 

[Westsounds]

What is more BS, this nonsense or their viewable wait list that goes back 2.5 YEARS! Who in their right mind would put down a 10% nonrefundable deposit to wait that long?!
https://orders.decware.com/list_view.php

Unsurprisingly Guttenberg gushes about their products.

So does this guy. He also subjectively explains his digititus, as he hears it.

 

[Westsounds]

I'm not agreeing with any of this. However, if you believe a bit of a dip from 2.5 khz to 4 khz sounds better why not just EQ in that dip rather than this goofy accessory which btw will not have the effect you think you want?

It's not exactly a dip between those frequencies, it's actually a very fine reduction on each of those exact individual frequencies (whatever they were somewhere around there). I've played with this on a parametric EQ and with a very fine tooth cut these digititus frequencies can almost be eliminated to the human ear, and make things sound less digital.

 

[Blumlein 88]

It's not exactly a dip between those frequencies, it's actually a very fine reduction on each of those exact individual frequencies (whatever they were somewhere around there). I've played with this on a parametric EQ and with a very fine tooth cut these digititus frequencies can almost be eliminated to the human ear, and make things sound less digital.

What do you mean by exact individual frequencies? You mean like 2500 hz not 2499 or 2501 hz? EQ can be as fine tooth as you like.

 

[Mr Swing King]

So does this guy. He also subjectively explains his digititus, as he hears it.

Heh…the old ‘vinyl sounds better than digital’
There is an easy way to make your set-up sound like vinyl: roll off the top end significantly via eq and get a somewhat muddy sounding amp: tadah!