Yes there is. But I don't really believe that's been made with AMTS.
Yeah just wishful thinking. I don't have much understanding in the area of metamaterials
Not distortion generated in the driver, but it can reduce/prevent distortion generated by the sound waves.
Another Stealth appreciation post:
Got my new PSU 2 weeks ago and I've been breaking it in. Has 4x more lt3045s than my last setup, bringing it up to 80x lt3045s to power my CDT and OCXO. Silver rca plugs and inlets as well. Also finally got my occ silver 4.4 + 6.3 DCA cable to do some comparison in the following weeks.
Around day 5 the soundstage has grew so much on CDT playback. It's like upgrading from a 60inch tv to a 120+ inch tv. Pretty wild. I tried to power my soekris DAC with a powerbank + silver dc cables and it shrunk the soundstage to a 12inch tablet.
The bass is so deep and so far in perception. And again, it sounds more open than is even imaginable, even for an open can. Fitting is actually a bit more forgiving now but one is heavily rewarded when good fitting and alignment is achieved.
And wow on this talk by Dan!!! What a gift this talk is. Such a definite guide. I've stopped chasing 'detail' because of how it started to sound more wrong than correct and Dan explains it well here. He also explained well the upgrades I'm hearing with timbre quality in vocals that lower distortion brings. Taylor Swift - Folklore had been one of my test albums and lately her vocals has this quality where it's like a woman speaking to you. If I downgrade my chain a bit, it's like her throat tightens up or she's has to perform and sing and her pitch goes up and there is a hardness that happens in the presentation.
Well if u wanna go there.... When it came out in mid-2020, my chain was already good but it can make it sound like Folklore is some indie cottage core recording. It can even sound like they rushed on finishing it. But now, it is quite an audiophile affair on that album to my surprise. There's actually a mistake on the Cardigan track on the 'playing hide and seek' part.
I guess my question was more along the lines of why Taylor Swift as opposed to, say, Wagner's "Götterdämmerung" or Ratt's "Invasion Of Your Privacy"?
Ahh. Well I don't listen to those that you mentioned? I'm also using Radiohead - Pablo Honey as another new reference album and the similarity of that and Folklore is that they can seemingly sound like it's poorly recorded. Pablo Honey has high DR tho. Folklore has lower DR I believe. I just have aural memory of those and the challenging parts in the track in my previous chains. Pablo Honey always has that demo tape kind of finish but man, it's sooo alive on my current setup and really reveals how sensitive my chain is to changes and what upgrades to do next.
From what I understand, the thicker part of the Stealth AMTS affects 8K, higher freq. as it gets thinner. For the bass region he must use more conventional methods.
