24 Juil 2016 à 15:21
a friend of his came over with some very fancy new amplifier. We listened, but weren’t that impressed. Then some other guy walked in with a really old little tube amp with two EL84s from a defunct brand called Armstrong, and we plugged that in. It just blew this fancy new transistor amp so far out of the water straight away, I thought, “This is curious -- this shouldn’t be allowed. What’s going on?”
So that is why I say that it is normal for an experimenter to experience that if you take a good-sounding zero-feedback amplifier and add 6dB of feedback, the result sounds worse. They heard that right. But had they been in a position to add 60dB, well then, suddenly they would have been confronted with a sound that is little short of magical.
Textbook theory” is very often just a shortcut. When people say something like “In theory, it should happen like this . . . ,” what they actually mean to say is, “In the very first approximation, on a basic level, this is how it should go.” That’s oversimplification, not theory. Real theory isn’t so simple. It is like you say: in theory, cables shouldn’t make any difference. Well, hang on. Does that imply that you’ve actually looked at all of the established textbook physics that explains exactly what happens within a cable? I don’t mean “new physics,” like microdiodes or what have you, because I do think that’s a load of crock.....
How do you do that?” Well, you sweep a DC input to a DAC. You feed it a constant code, some small value, and measure the noise. Increase that code and repeat. Suddenly you’ll find that some of these D-to-A converters will do these frightening things, like the noise floor suddenly shooting up or an audible whistle actually just walking through the audioband as you sweep, going from supersonic down to zero and then back up. You have to be creative when you measure, not just do the standardized battery.
it is my experience -- confirmed by every new thing I do -- that when you get into really high measured performance, really low distortion, superlow noise, then the ultimate subjective sound quality starts improving and continues to improve in step with the measurements.
Many of these compatibility issues -- where people say this preamp sounds good with that CD player -- some of these mysterious interactions actually happen through the power wiring, and sometimes even through direct coupling from a power cable into a speaker cable. This, then, does to an extent explain why people put such an inordinate effort into speaker cables, and cables in general.
24 Juil 2016 à 16:13
shal a écrit:En parlant d'EMI, il dit que cela peut expliquer pourquoi tel preampli vas sonner bien avec ce lecteur CD. Que l'interaction peut-être un couplage entre le cordon d'alimentation et les câbles d'enceintes. C'est pour lui une des causes pour lequel les gens jouent autant avec les câbles .
24 Juil 2016 à 16:22
shal a écrit:En parlant d'EMI, il dit que cela peut expliquer pourquoi tel preampli vas sonner bien avec ce lecteur CD. Que l'interaction peut-être un couplage entre le cordon d'alimentation et les câbles d'enceintes.
24 Juil 2016 à 16:37
Nicodimdom » 24 Juil 2016, 16:13 a écrit:Maxitonus ne dit rien d'autre sauf erreur.
Hollow » 24 Juil 2016, 16:22 a écrit:Je prépare le diplôme pour le nain de bronze ?
24 Juil 2016 à 16:56
24 Juil 2016 à 17:04
Switch-mode power supplies and switching amplifiers are, in fact, very closely linked. In both, the power devices ideally operate either fully on or fully off, and they alternate very rapidly between those states. By and large, when it comes to unwanted behavior of the circuit (you were referring to the noise, with the more generic term being EMI -- electromagnetic interference), most of these things happen in that space between turning a device off and turning another one on. This happens really rapidly, and whenever you have rapid changes in voltage and current, every bit of wire will turn into a transmitting antenna. You really have to think extremely hard about how fast you really want to switch -- can I reduce the problem at the source? -- and then look at the conduit by which the noise gets out: the wiring and the printed circuit board. Everything that is left after that -- even after you’ve done your best to make the switching power stage as quiet as you can as far as radio-frequency interference [RFI] is concerned, and you’ve done your best to make sure there is no internal wiring that actually radiates this stuff -- in the end you might still need to add some further filtering to the incoming and outgoing lines. And you really need to be extremely careful with these things, because a lot of audio equipment is astonishingly sensitive, sonically, to any of this high-frequency noise circulating around power cables, speaker cables, and interconnects.
As a reference, I keep a CD player at home which sounds quite good, but which is fairly typical in its sensitivity to this noise, so I can do listening tests on power amplifiers and switching-mode power supplies to judge whether the power supplies are quiet enough not to disturb the connected equipment. As a rule of thumb, for something that is directly connected to a source, like a preamplifier, the power supply ought to have a measured EMI performance that is at least 20dB, and preferably better than 30dB, quieter than the legal FCC requirements. Simply designing a power supply that complies with FCC class-B is not good enough for good sound quality -- it actually has to drop off the scale of the measuring instrument entirely. Then you can be quite sure that whatever source you are going to connect, it is not going to be bothered by this RFI.
I should add that in the pro world they’ve learned to work around this. Designers of pro-audio gear nowadays make a habit of constructing the balanced interface in accordance with a set of rules called AES48, and those actually immunize equipment to an extreme degree. So if you have a complete audio system that is constructed as per AES48, then you could have some things sitting in the signal chain -- like a television or computer that produces staggering amounts of EMI -- and still get good sound. Mola-Mola products follow AES48, but you can’t be sure of any of the other kit people have in their rack, so I’ve got to make sure my gear plays ball with the rest. Many of these compatibility issues -- where people say this preamp sounds good with that CD player -- some of these mysterious interactions actually happen through the power wiring, and sometimes even through direct coupling from a power cable into a speaker cable. This, then, does to an extent explain why people put such an inordinate effort into speaker cables, and cables in general. All I can say is that once you realize you are looking at these crosstalk issues as one of the reasons for a sonic difference, you might want to do some more targeted experimenting, because I believe most cable manufacturers just construct things and listen to them without really understanding what’s behind them.
24 Juil 2016 à 17:38
24 Juil 2016 à 17:56
shal a écrit:interview donné par Bruno Putzeys
Lien mesure et qualité subjective : [...] En faisant des mesures de haute performance et en ayant de très faible distorsions alors la qualité subjective du son s'améliore [...] Commentaire : cela reste un scientifique
A propos des EMI [...] cela peut expliquer pourquoi tel preampli vas sonner bien avec ce lecteur CD [...] l'interaction peut-être un couplage entre le cordon d'alimentation et les câbles d'enceintes. C'est pour lui une des causes pour lequel les gens jouent autant avec les câbles
24 Juil 2016 à 19:23
shal a écrit:Un commentaire de la part de Hollow sur cet extrait ?
24 Juil 2016 à 20:22
24 Juil 2016 à 20:55
maxitonus a écrit:Les couplages hf c'est comme l'Arlésienne: //Tant mieux: nos vaches seront bien gardées.
24 Juil 2016 à 21:47
24 Juil 2016 à 22:13
maxitonus a écrit:Penser que les cables secteur peuvent cracher leur venin de loin dans les cables hp's
24 Juil 2016 à 22:50