[sdiy] vco's

[Scott]

Hey, that's exactly the other thing that got me on the topic..  I just finished building a hi-fi tube (valve) amp. (http://www.sdiy.org/wicked1/images/ampside3.jpg)
It definitely sounds better than my solid state amp, but my solid state amp was a cheap amp left over from highschool 15 years ago.  I also built a pair of very nice back loaded horn speakers at the same time, so..  I guess I can't really compare.

But, the tube forum people....   they get a little nuts over the subtle differences in resistors, capacitors, connectors, and even wire!  Things that are not measurable w/ even the most modern test equipment, but they swear are there.

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Atkins [mailto:gatkins at blueyonder.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:37 PM
To: Scott
Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] vco's

It only reminds me of people who reckon that vinyl records sound  
better than CD's (Have you seen what turntables are fetching on  
Ebay !) OR that
valve amps sound nicer than transistor amps because of subtle  
distortion of the harmonics. I guess it is all down to  
psychoacoustics. The bottom line
though is to try and audition different VCO's and decide what sounds  
better to you, not what anyone else thinks.

Graham

On 7 Apr 2009, at 17:41, Scott wrote:

> Is there really much difference in sound between different VCO's?
> cgs vs motm vs ray Wilson vs Oakley, etc etc. (assuming they all  
> have the same inputs, and same output wave forms, and not counting  
> special VCO like quadrature, etc)
> I read a lot of stuff where people LOVE the sound of such and such  
> VCO..  But, isn't a 10v p to p saw wave (or whatever wave) the same  
> regardless of which VCO its coming out of?
>
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