It works greatWill have to listen to my vinyl thru the Axe-Fx III now - we may need a new "FAS HiFi" model with some de-crackle parameters .
Yeah I know there are tons of class D amps out there, but it's not clear to me yet if they are all voltage-controlled or current-controlled. Cliff's comment leads me to believe the majority (all of them?) are voltage-mode. I was trying to find papers on current-mode class D amps to learn more about them.Look up Crown's DriveCore series. All Class D.
If you want this amp , put a 5 band eq, turn the 3rd slider all way down . Done .After over a decade of constant requests, we’re finally getting some Dimebag Randalls!
Yup, same here. Probably it hasn't made its way into audio yet, or maybe current amplifiers will reintroduce some issues that people and manufacturers don't want to deal with (e.g. frequency response affected by the speaker impedance curve)I haven't been able to find any articles on class D amps that are for audio application... Only radio frequencies. Hmm.
This leads to a potential improvement for solid-state HiFi amplification: Current-mode Class-D. If you could make a Class-D amplifier that works in current mode instead of voltage mode you would get the same benefits as a tube amp for HiFi applications.
Just advertise it as audiophile grade amplifiers. You can ask whatever you want and somebody will pay it just to have this epiphany-born innovative technology.Ugh, no. That's a market I want nothing to do with. Zero margin and easily stolen technology.
Cliff, you must be an alien or something!
Not that I understand any more of that than what the words mean in non-technical English, but I wouldn't think voice coil temperature would change much until the speaker was running hard for a fair while.It's an improved Speaker Dynamics algorithm. I've never been super happy with the current speaker compression. Mathematically it's right, or at least I though it was right. But I realized that there's a wrinkle to the analysis. It has to do with the change in the radiation impedance with respect to voice coil temperature.
I did a first pass at it that sounds good but it isn't exact. I just figured out how to do it exact but I'm too tired right now. I'll work on it more tomorrow.
I think they have lower expectations of what their teams can and will deliver, and a willingness to let their customers live with less.All of the other modeling companies must read this stuff and say: "WTF! How the hell are we going to beat this guy!"
So audiophile terms like "tube warmth", "3D soundstage", and "realism" etc. aren't complete BS??What I realized with this epiphany is that tube amps are better for HiFi as well. I'm not a HiFi person but now I know why HiFi people prefer tube amps. They probably don't understand why it sounds better, they just know it sounds better.
After over a decade of constant requests, we’re finally getting some Dimebag Randalls!
My Helix Floor has been in the shop for almost six months waiting on a replacement board that Line 6/Yamaha can't deliver. As soon as I get it back I'm selling it to some poor sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hsoul. There's no way it will approach the quality of sound or build Fractal's products already have.This. Line 6 products was a mainstay in rig over the past few decades. I was getting upset as a Helix owner not know when anything new was dropping or what was planned. Their forums are pretty closed and anytime I'd ask a question they would just refer to some generic tutorial video or something. The community here is what sold on buying FAS equipment until either they don't exist or I don't exist. The first won't happen because the product is too good
Supposedly that's what Boss is doing in their Nextone solid-state amps. They have a DSP chip that watches the speaker's impedance and adjusts parameters in the power-amplifier on the fly. I had one, and, at half-volume on up, when the speaker was starting to work, it'd sound and feel like its power amp was tube based.I think about these things from time to time. I still hope that one day we'll have some kind of solid-state, non-modeling technology for guitar amps and such that is superior to tubes in every way. I wonder if we'll ever get there.