in article cjrhe.28342$ snipped-for-privacy@twister.southeast.rr.com, Jimmie at snipped-for-privacy@carolina.rr.com wrote on 5/14/05 11:19 AM:
If distortion is wanted, there are analog and digital methods available to introduce distortion in a known way. A twin 2GHZ twin processor G5 computer using 64 bits could run circles around any audio signal that can be put into it.
It is difficult for me to understand why amplifier nuts, er.. perfectionists, do not delve into quantifying the distortions that do the best jobs for the music of interest. It should not be that difficult to make a function generator to duplicate the distortion of a tube. Moreover, that distortion could be made to vary dynamically according to the desire of the performer. In any event, how does the distortion survive the negative feedback in the amps?
Bill