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Post Subject: The harmonic "rubber band", etc.Posted by Paul S on: 5/1/2007
One thing I have noticed a lot with gear that "aspires" is a ""rubber band" harmonic effect, with +/- higher or lower harmonics in preponderance as the dynamics/complexity changes. There is also the effect where the [amp] just starts to short change harmonics, or it focuses on its "preferred" harmonics rather than offering the whole consistantly. By "smearing", I mean a sort of indistinct patchy-ness with respect to harmonic [re]prodiuction. By "saturation", I mean ("correct" or not) that things simply fog in and run out of gain, generally at the ends first, but then the whole thing. The amorphous core is more "stable", IMO, or at least it is more consistent. At this point I don't know how to directly compare the transformer-specific pure dynamics of the "amorphous core" phono stage and the ML2s.
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