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Re: So does this mean...

9/27/2000 9:44 PM
nuke	Re: So does this mean... Randall Aiken wrote: For a hi-fi guy, Norman Crowhurst was really on top of things relating to guitar amps! Man, I keep telling people that stuff that (actually) works in hifi circuits works in guitar amps. The only exception being very large amounts of negative feedback in the usually gratuitous search for lower distortion in hi-fi amps for marketing numbers. If you read the works of the guys like Crowhurst and Williamson, et-al, they were hip to the diminishing returns of negative feedback in hifi apps once distortion reached some level comfortably below a half percent. The people who engineered the really great amps of the 50's and 60's were applying the same techniques that made good hifi amps. We still love those amps today because they sound great. I don't think the causality is accidental.

9/27/2000 9:44 PM

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Re: So does this mean...

Randall Aiken wrote:

For a hi-fi guy, Norman Crowhurst was really on top of things relating to guitar amps!

Man, I keep telling people that stuff that (actually) works in hifi circuits works in guitar amps. The only exception being *very large* amounts of negative feedback in the usually gratuitous search for lower distortion in hi-fi amps for marketing numbers.

If you read the works of the guys like Crowhurst and Williamson, et-al, they were hip to the diminishing returns of negative feedback in hifi apps once distortion reached some level comfortably below a half percent.

The people who engineered the really great amps of the 50's and 60's were applying the same techniques that made good hifi amps. We still love those amps today because they sound great. I don't think the causality is accidental.