new here plus a question... II

[Martin Czech]

Perhaps I was a bit to negative in my first response.  I only wanted to
show how high the mountain is that you are trying to climb.

OTOH as time goes on the cost of measurement gear drops.  Ie. you can
buy a 48kHz or even 96kHz sampling tool with good 16 bit resolution for
little money today. With a little nice preamp/transformer this can be
enough to do some reasonable study at home.

If you get your hands on the equipment you want to analyse you can do
quite a lot of investigation.

For instance you could borrow a 100W top from a friend over the weekend,
get a shemo and look what happens to a pure sine wave from amp stage to
amp stage, at different frequencys and levels.  Then you could look at
step response for different levels. And so on.

You'll end up with a collection of data in time and frequency domain.
Next would be to invent algorithms that do this kind of changes
to an input signal. You don't need to emulate everything and every detail.

Listening tests will guide you.

This sounds like an awfull amount of time.
But since you don't have a time deadline nor a market price target
you could possibly come up with something better than usual.
Because most products are heavily biased to these two design goals
instead of audio quality...

btw.: the emulation of room responses I'm trying to do is something
similar, but the theory exists, it's more straight forward...


m.c.