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HIFI News - Ben Duncan

Ben Duncan ''Blackbox'' HIFI NEWS Some thoughts on the AES and the value of its preprints mars 1998 ... The third of some of the notable preprints I have spotted in the past two years is from France. The Author (Hephaistos, from Lavardin Technologies) begins with the well known position, that conventional alias ''classical'' tests of audio electronics do not tally with widespread listening experience, and cites simple test circuits he has devised wich can be arranged to prove the point. The defective thinking he identifies is that classical testing revolves around an implicit hypothesis ; that distortion characteristics are immuable and simple. But in reality, they are usually unstable and complex, often varying according to a music signal wich is itself complex and even quasi-chaotic. The changes, futhermore, often have time constants that give rise to 'memory'' phenomena. The fact that different sources of memory arise in components, ICs, and even in particular circuit topologies (eg, as spike saturation or V-I protection recovery characteristics), will come as no surprise to technically experienced readers. The trouble with testing for memory effects is rather like that of jitter in 20+-bit systems : equipment wich has less of the effect than the smallest amount you are trying to measure is probably not in existence. You will have to make it yourself, and without any test equipment to test your efforts against. After achieving this, the author is reporting errors signals that are only 60dB down with one well known transistor-based topology. Simple tube circuits can readily have lower memory, but the Author then relates that transistor circuits with high feedback can also be made with even lower memory, yielding sonics that even tube fanatics will prefer.

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