fishski13
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please forgive my extreme lack of technical knowlege when asking a quesiton like this:
ok, so i have my O2 ordered, and it clearly measures excellent, but what happens when say for example i play it next to my soon coming stacker II and the stacker maybe has a much "larger" sound - as in feels like it expands off of my head more, or if the stacker seems to seperate instruments more, or other attributes that i cant think of at this point that arent frequency or distortion related. my question is what in the stacker would be causing these "improvements"
i'm just using the stacker as an example, but my real question is - some amps may sound better than the O2.. now i have heard that some people prefer tube amps and what it comes down to is that the tubes ad distortion or some other kinds of "less than optimal" measurement factors or tube factors that color the sound or frequency response, and that some people actually prefer that, but the aspects im asking about are specifically not frequency response or distortion realated.
i hope this question makes sense. I'm just trying to learn something here.
i guess another hypothetical way to ask this is - lets say you took the O2, and another amp that measured equally well, but sounded a lot better for whatever reason you want to imagine, what would be the differences? I sort of understand that better is not always actually better in some cases, but hopefully you get my drift.
thanks
if you want to get serious, you need to level match the amplifiers. you need a DVM, unterminated TRS plug or detachable HP cable, and a test tone. go down to your local hardware store and Radio Shack and pick up a DVM ($10-20) and TRS plug ($4). i can run you through the process via PM if interested.