Topping are going out of their way to prevent competitors from reverse engineering the amp. There is no way they are going to publish the schematic.
PA5 is a power amplifier with a volume pot at the input.
With regard to that, I'd really like to see the clipping behavior... another thing that Amir does not measure but it is quite important for lower power amps as they will be driven in to clipping more often, typically.@JohnYang1997 How about a SPL limiter function in the PA7, sort of like in the pre90? Does that feature request make any sense?
Sorry for the ping and once again, great job with the amp.
Isn’t the clipping behaviour sort of given by the power/distortion chart.
A moderate amount of hard, clean clipping actually doesn't deteriorate the sound too badly.
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Isn't it the same thing as compression? Nowaday many music is mastered with lots of compression that crops the peaks of music and people never complain........ Maybe we can get further compression with low power amp and think it sounds good!A moderate amount of hard, clean clipping actually doesn't deteriorate the sound too badly.
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(PDF) Assessment of nonlinearity in transducers and sound systems - From THD to perceptual models
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I hate listening to nowadays compressed pop music and the new compressed re- masters. You seem to like it?Isn't it the same thing as compression? Nowaday many music is mastered with lots of compression that crops the peaks of music and people never complain........ Maybe we can get further compression with low power amp and think it sounds good!
No, or only very crudely. You have to look at the time-domain for this, with a sine input signal.
No, clipping is distortion. Compression is different.Isn't it the same thing as compression? Nowaday many music is mastered with lots of compression that crops the peaks of music and people never complain........ Maybe we can get further compression with low power amp and think it sounds good!
Nah, I hate it because it makes my ear hurt, the constant spl is too high. The indsutry is moving in this way, they don't get panelized by compression, but gets more popular. So that is why I say it sounds better. Majority of people think it sounds better only because it is louder.
When you take compression to extreme and start to take away the peaks, they will look the same. My understanding is that the time domain peaks will get cropped, so clipping do not happen at certain time and certain frequencies, this will depends on when the spl is high. Or am I wrong on this?
It really sucks you dumped a Allo post into a Topping PA5 thread. Please start a new topic.
How does that relate to Toppings PA5, my dude?
This info is welcome, just not in a topic about a competing product. It would make so much more sense just to make a new topic rather than continuing to pollute other topics. Then just put a single sentence ONE TIME in related topics like this one and the Allo Volt thread, with a link to the new one. Then post all further info only in that topic.
